AIBU to smuggle bottles of water and Maltesers into the cinema tomorrow?

[Kbear]

...rather than paying £400 for popcorn and cokes at the counter. Everyone smuggles right?

There is a big sign I noticed last time I went stating a zero tolerance for taking stuff in that you didn't buy there. I think they have a damn cheek and if their prices were at least reasonable not £3.40 for a popcorn I would buy it there.

No one's looking in my massive handbag without a fight but they seriously aren't going to ask me are they?

I am taking DS and his mates for this birthday treat, don't REALLY want to have to scuffle with the girl on the door!!!

There would be a real risk of audible burping were I to drink prosecco through a straw. Great idea though.

I always take our own drink and snack. I don't 'smuggle' it either I just have it in my bag or a carrier bag from the shop I bought them from.

I was wondering how it was only going to be £400 for popcorn.

And how the OP was going to either pay for the £400 popcorn or be able to drive to work the next week. As if you could fill a car in 2022 for £400.

It would be £1000 in todays prices.

A film lasts what… an hour and a half? Two hours tops? Why do you need to eat during it - didn’t you have lunch or dinner first?
I suppose I an now a dinosaur, but my generation survived on three meals a day - there wasn’t this current fad for snacking/grazing/stuffing one’s face all day and evening.
It’s strange that it only seems to be cinemas, too. You don’t see the audience stuffing popcorn and crunching crisps during opera performances - somehow they manage not to faint with hunger…

I always take treats into the cinema not once has anybody searched my bag.

I doubt she will remember now. It was fourteen years ago.

You are not being unreasonable.

Zombie thread but...

Now, in 2022, Cineworld, Vue and Odeon have recently confirmed it's ok to take your own snacks

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/people-only-just-discover-you-26520570

Not alcohol though😉

I thought £3.40 sounded quite cheap for popcorn! Then the reference to Woolies made me realise it's a zombie!

Last time I went to the cinema on my own I casually ordered a drink, popcorn and a tub of Ben & Jerry's and to cut a long story short, I'm probably now going to have to sell the house.

I've just remembered that when I was a kid, my dad used to make me choose the lightest sweets from the pick and mix because it was so expensive. Basically if you went for flying saucers and flumps you could get a lot more for your money when they weighed it than if you got strawberry bon-bons, pear drops and jelly snakes.

It took reading "We go to buy pick n mix from Woolies" for me to realise this thread is 14 years old...