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!!!

I never realised you couldn't take your own food/drink in, that's a joke. YANBU, don't smuggle though - be out & proud! In 2008 no frigger is telling me what I can and can't eat. Blimey.

I go to a Vue attached to a big shopping mall so loads of people have carrier bags having just been shopping. I always take Ds to the lovely pound shop in the mall and we buy cans of pop / bottles of water (4 for a pound), a big box of maltesers - (they always taste better from a box, not sure why), some crisps and a big bag of Haribo so our treats cost no more than £4. I was so shocked when I went to cineworld recently and I was charged over £4 for a coke

I don't feel guilty at all - if the prices were not so exorbitant you would not have to do this

Also DS's friend isn't allowed sweets, popcorn or coke (only white chocolate and water).

I once smuggled a pizza into to the cinema when dh and I were going to watch Lord of the Rings.

We didn't have time to eat before we went out because of the baby sitter and it is a bloody long film! the food in the cinema is shite and overpriced.

the pizza was sublime, all the better for eating it in the dark IMHO!

LOL at you lot trying to make me feel guilty for NOT buying it. What kind of mother am I?

"OK Johnny you can have cinema popcorn and coke but mummy will have to walk to work next week as we'll have no car tax."

He'll be fine with the Maltesers I'm sure.

MB, how the hell do you smuggle pizza? ha ha

I always take my own water but buy popcorn.

Do any of you ever go to the poncy cinema night? our local cinema does them, it's half capacity and alcohol/ bar snacks are served to you during the film.

It's good, but doesn't seem like the authentic cinema experience. (I might change my mind if they also aloowed smoking, hehe)

under a long over coat (it was winter)

Pizza was a bit squished, and we did have to wait for the lights to go down, but it was scrummy!

and norty!!

in that case Give each child their own munchies in advance and make them hide them.

That way they are conspiring with you rather than asking loudly why no visit to the sweet stall.

I always take my own,I have a big handbag.
Not only are the prices high but the amounts are huge! How can anyone want to eat that amount of popcorn?!

YANBU. A friend of mine has recently admitted that when she goes out for coffee, she smuggles in cakes from Sainsburys basics range to have with her coffee! She said nothing will persuade her to pay £3 for a dry chocolate brownie!!

I've had friends take tins of G&T into a LICENSED restaurant. Now that IS off!

We always 'smuggle' stuff in (by which I mean popping bottles of coke and sweets in my handbag). This is at Cineworld and nobody ever says anything - in fact, last time we went, there was a woman in front of us with one of those see-through Morrisons bag stuffed FULL of bags of Morrisons popcorn, and they didn't bat an eyelash! Well done that woman!

Our Cineworld confiscates, and good job too after a film completely spoilt by someone constantly rustling in a plastic bag for sweets and rustling to undo every wrapped sweet. Is it really necessary to be constantly eating?

catweazle - spoilsport

Ex-mindees big sister (2 doors up) works at Cineworld on a Saturday. Want me to give herthe nod!

Perhaps compromise with some in the bag and then a small popcorn to avert suspicion. Nothing worse than being searched on DS's birthday.

Or the film could be the treat?? When I was little there was no popcorn, fizzy drinks. We used to have one of those cup drinks, in the crazy days before we bought still water!!, and I shared 'munchies' with my sister oooo or mintolas. They were the most expensive sweets I ever ate as a child.

I remember taking in slices of pizza I'd bought from Pizza Hut before going into the cinema in Leicester Square - the best pizza ever, probably because I knew it was wrong!

They charge such high prices for confectionary and drinks because the cinema makes little to no money from ticket sales, the majority goes to the distributor, so they recoup their money via popcorn and sweets.

I always take a carrier bag full of drinks, sweets, crisps and popcorn. I'd rather spend £10 in Tescos than £650 for half as much stuff. Nobody bats an eyelid.

What's with all the people taking crisps into the cinema. Please tell me you don't sit there munching on crisps during the movie?????

No problem with taking in your own provisions, chocolate can be eaten fairly quietly, but crisps???? I would be furious if you munched through a movie next to me (but probably terribly British and seethe in silence!)

Pringles, or kettle chips.
We all have a pile on a napkin (stolen from the cafe when I buy my coffee before the film) to avoid the russling of a crisp bag.

Rustling of the bag be dammed, what about the munching of the bloody crisps???