To sneak a McDonald's into the cinema

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Would it be wrong to sneak a big mac and fries into the cinema? I usually just take a bag of sweets and bottle of water. I refuse to pay the cinema prices for food. The film I want to see tomorrow is 3 hours long, plus 30 minutes or so of adverts. It starts at 11.30am. Do you take your own food into the cinema?

MacDonald's smell vile. Please don't.

Try and avoid rustling things as well. The guy sitting behind me at Endgame last Night worked his rustle way through about 4 packets of Doritos. I wanted to ram a rustle packet up his nose but thought it would be noisier.

Cinemas stink anyway! Cheap sugary popcorn and rank hotdogs! McDonald's is an improvement

Would it kill you to take in a non-smelly sandwich rather than a stink-the-place-out MacDonalds?

Please don't.

Some inconsiderate arse took the stinkiest Nando's into Book of Mormon.

Just take popcorn and crisps

The vue cinema nearest us allows you to bring you own snacks but no hot food. Nothing that will smell! They take it off you.

Please don't take stuff like that in; it's really not nice for others who have paid just the same as you and then need to sit there with the smell hanging around. Just take snacks.

Food yes.Mcdonalds no. It smells vile unless you're eating it.

Enjoy your cold, non-smelly and QUIET snacks, OP.

*To be honest, I’d be tempted to take something like a nice fresh quinoa salad - Waitrose do some lovely ones.

It will be far less smelly, still filling and more wholesome.*

That’s the most middle class thing I’ve seen on mumsnet yet. The OP wants a Big Mac and fries, in what world would a fresh quinoa salad be a realistic substitute for that?!

Agree no to McDonald’s but yes to taking food and a drink in, it’s soooo expensive at the cinema .

What about a sandwich, less smelly and will fit in your bag easily.

I don't eat in the cinema. I go to watch a film not eat and am perfectly capable of going without food for a couple of hours.

I hate that people eat and drink in the cinema. All that rustling and slurping and the smell of some of the food.

Years ago me and DH used to go to the national film theatre on the South Bank and they didn't allow any food or drink. Not sure if that is still the case but it should be in every cinema

Sandwich and snacks would be more appropriate I would have thought, the supermarkets all do such an amazing range (may be juts slightly jealous as now in a country that doesn't)........I wouldn't take a Macdonalds in personally, due to the smell mainly and the greasyness in the dark.

When I worked in a small independent cinema I was amazed that most people bought water before they went in. Like they were going to dry up like prunes if they didn't drink for 2 hours. Weird.

I missed the majority of Prisoners, because I couldn’t take my eyes off the couple next to us, who unpacked and ate an entire Nando’s during the film. I possibly don’t get out enough, but I’ve never seen anything like it in my life!

I saw someone making up rolls and crisps in the cinema one.
I wouldn’t take a McDonald’s in. The nachos chips etc they sell are on flat trays so there’s no rustling of pokes.
Just take your sweets in.

Especially at cinema prices gone my friend bought a bottle and it was £3.80 for a 500ml. I nearly passed out

Haha! Only on MN!

Oh, sorry! I'm not in the UK, so was just trying to think of something 'local' that was nice (more appealing than McDonalds), but not smelly - Pret came to mind.

McDs does have a very distinctive smell. Clearly many people think this - they're not making it up.

Mmmm roll and crisps. Good choice
take the kids we rock up with loads of snacks,drinks,revels and coffee for me

Re the McDonalds smell - clearly if you're hungry and fancy McDs, the smell will be appealing.

If you're sitting next to someone in the dark rustling and eating, and you personally didn't sign up for that, the smell will be a lot less appealing.

I'm surprised this needs explaining.

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I work in a cinema. Our rules are you are allowed to take food in but not hot food. But people do sneak McDonald's in every day. We wouldn't kick you out or confiscate it. It definitely stinks when you are cleaning the screens though and there are McDonald's wrappers, so although I've not sat next to someone eating one, I can imagine it would smell.

Comments about people taking Endgame seriously enough not to eat are bull though. I was annoyed to have to listen to constant rustling when I saw it. People are noisy and inconsiderate with food in the cinema now, they don't prepped packets, of they struggle to open it they just crack on with the rustling endlessly, they take individually wrapped sweets, nachos stink... so I think McDonald's is realistically a drop in the ocean.

I've taken McDonald's in loads of times 😂

OP has listened to the collective wisdom of Mumsnet and has decided against it. Well done OP. You may or may not want to post every so often that this is the case as this thread will doubtless run to many pages.

There used to be signs on buses (maybe there still are) asking people to be considerate of their fellow passengers, and to not eat smelly food. This same thing applies in cinemas, I'd've thought.

It's just about being a bit considerate of others around you. You don't need to go without food.

Just be considerate.

Being 'considerate' of others does seem to be way too big an ask of many people these days...

My post is not to the OP, who's said she won't do it. But more to the terminally inconsiderate on this thread.

I would rather sit next to someone eating a burger and fries than one of those people who digs around in a packet of sweets every 20 seconds. Smelly and silent cinema food is better (IMO) than non smelly loud cinema food.