Cinema snacks!!!

When I take GC to cinema we go to the local supermarket & they choose a bag of sweets or similar & I put them in my bag & get them out when lights go down. I refuse to pay an ridiculous amount of money & they all get what they want. The noise of people rustling paper & eating is very annoying too.
Hence I rarely go to cinema unless I am taking the children- they soon come round on Netflix anyway!

Took grandson to cinema.
Treat was Pick ‘n Mix - you put scooped sweets in a cardboard container then take it over to the counter for the server to weigh and pay.
This is when you find out some sweets are heavier than others and you haven’t enough ££ for the amount you have.
I asked the server whether I should return some sweets to the display or should she throw the excess in the box away.
‘Thats a waste’ she said as she threw some in the bin. MADNESS!!!!
Do people just cough up the money ?

I blame this on cinemas in the USA where they've been increasing the food on offer, for years. Recently DH & I were on our annual visit to see DGC in USA. We took DGD to see Incredibles 2, but only after it had been on for a few weeks. We declined to take her to the nearest cinema, which now has tables from which you can order food and drinks, while the film is on! (Argh!! Why can't people for two or three hours without food? All we take is a small bottle of water and a couple of boiled sweets, in case we cough.) The cinema we chose was almost empty in the afternoon and there was a lot less food in evidence - bliss!

I always take a bag of toffees or similar and sometimes a can of pop for us all to share at the cinema. I plan to buy them at Tesco beforehand with the weekly shop. I never pay the inflated prices at the venue! I also wait for films to come to my local independent which only charges £6 for tickets, 50p off for OAPs. It's a much more enjoyable experience as it's closer, run by volunteers and rarely full so you don't feel hemmed in by others.

Occasionally. I watch “Gogglebox” and I’m appalled at how some of the families have various snacks laid out to accompany their viewing.
Last year, I went to the ballet with my family and had to ask the child behind me to refrain from rustling sweet papers during the performance which he had done during the overture. My hearing aids tend to pick up the nearest sound!

This will divulge my age but well remember the days when all you could buy in a cinema was an ice cream .Hence we took our own goodies.

I never feel the need to eat in the cinema.

I think people just like stuffing their faces and have money to waste.

Cinemas shouldn’t be selling all this stuff. Ticket prices are very expensive anyway.
I usually go to the senior screen cinema. Hardly ever get the oldies scoffing. Just a coffee or tea.

The waffle cut chips they do in the Vue cinemas though are the bomb, two thumbs up for thosr

Totally agree. We visit the cinema many times a year and I can safely say that we have purchased around four drinks in all that time. We don’t sit at home watching a film and eat snacks at the same time, so why do it at the cinema?
But saying that, we never visit with little ones so probably that helps!

On the other hand, people who take food to the opera should be publicly flogged

Errol Flynn Filmhouse, Maw? I go there, wonder if it's the same one? I usually have GT or a prosecco.

The profit the cinemas makes on selling food and drink, must be absolutely huge. They probably make more on that than ticket sales. So while people will buy, they won't stop doing it, unfortunately.

When I go to that cinema with my grandchildren which isn't often I will treat them to a children's Mic, popcorn drink sweets etc, but I think the price of this is now ridiculous so will be taking our own in .however went I go with friends I just take my own bottle of water in with me.

Well this is another example of why we have such an obesity crisis at the moment.

So many people seem unable to go 2 or 3 hours without stuffing their faces, and then, no doubt, bleat about how they can't lose weight.

How did we get to this current situation where there are just SO many of these greedy creatures around these days?

Austerity? I don't think so.

Went to the cinema yesterday afternoon with DH. Hardly any other people there and yet when the adverts came on another couple came and sat down right next to us - the majority of the seats were empty!. They then proceeded to chat, play with phones and then one of them went out and brought in the nachos - needless to say we moved. Later they had their feet up on the seats in front of them as did a group of teenagers a few rows in front and they had an adult with them. Words fail me...

American influence.

We go to the cinema most weeks and do take in sweets as a treat, (it’s the only time we eat sweets). However we buy them in the supermarket and transfer them to the plastic bags that you use for fruit in the supermarket, that way there is no rustling of sweet papers etc. But I do agree the smell of hot dogs and popcorn etc. can be pretty horrible!

And people wonder why there is a rise in obesity!

Do not know if cinema pop corn has changed much recently, but 10 years ago I worked next to a small but elegant cinema albeit part of a large well known chain. In the foyer was one of those 'freshly popped' type pop corn counters. Trouble was we saw the 'freshly popped' pop corn delivered cold in huge plastic bags the size of dust bins once a week of the back of the lorry that also delivered the drinks!!

Sorry JenniferE -I see you have already said that!
I do think it is an American influence and it does put us off going to the cinema these days. The most we ever had as children was a small packet of sweets eg wine gums at the pictures' .But also in restaurants portion sizes are getting bigger and bigger and wine glasses (even the 'small' ones) seem to be twice the size they used to be.
I also find that many young childten are constantly snacking between meals and in the evening these days. All young mums seem to have a bag full of snacks for children whenever they go out! I don't remember doing that.
Agree with MawBroon that going to our local Errol Flynn cinema (with spacious leg room, no pop corn or coke but a glass of wine or cup of coffee ) is much more enjoyable for us oldies!

People can't seem to go anywhere now without snacking/grazing. By coincidence I took my granddaughter to the cinema yesterday and she did have some sweets and a drink chosen in a shop before we went but I made sure she didn't have noisy wrappers. The thing that amazed me though was the price to see the film, £17.50 for one adult and one child or maybe you'll all tell me I'm behind the times.

Went to our local little theatre a few years ago for a matinee and at the end of our fairly empty row was an elderly lady with an entire picnic including a flask of tea which she balanced on the step beside her. ??

£28 here for one adult and 2 children when I took my GDs a few weeks ago then a drink and sweets as well. Well over £30 altogether, so I can't afford that very often.

That's ok polly I'm sure I have repeated what has already been said on numerous occasions!!

Maybe all this chomping at the cinema is the reason why the soundtrack is so loud these days.

On the rare occasion I go, I invariably spend a lot of the time with my fingers in my ears!

Other people crunching crisps, crunching sweet wrappers and ripping open packets in the cinema is a nightmare for me.
It completely spoils the film, and people do it at the most poignant quiet moments too. Why do these people go to the cinema? Are they complete morons?
I happen to like going to see films, but feel increasingly restricted to small art house cinemas..but sometimes even these aren’t immune!