Cinema Food

xzanti

Whats your choice of munchies when you go to the cinema?? Do you buy into the overpriced kiosk ice-cream and popcorn or are you one of those people who smuggle a Spar bag full of bars and crisps in??

I personally am just too lazy to go conspiring to secrete sweets in past the staff... Plus I just feel like the Cinema food thing is all part of the treat that is going to the flicks..

I always get a medium popcorn, medium Coke, and a bag of either Wine Gums or Maltesers and usually pick at the bfs Ben & Jerrys too Its a good excuse to pig out... Thats the way I see it :rolleyes:

qz

Large coke and a large popcorn please, and maybe a bag of sweets from the pick and mix. Such a nice combo. Pretty damn expensive though, so I'll only get all that crap when it's some big blockbuster.

is_that_so

Drinks are tolerable but I'd ban the rest of it, between the smell and the noise.

segadreamcast

xzanti wrote:

Whats your choice of munchies when you go to the cinema?? Do you buy into the overpriced kiosk ice-cream and popcorn or are you one of those people who smuggle a Spar bag full of bars and crisps in??

I personally am just too lazy to go conspiring to secrete sweets in past the staff... Plus I just feel like the Cinema food thing is all part of the treat that is going to the flicks..

I always get a medium popcorn, medium Coke, and a bag of either Wine Gums or Maltesers and usually pick at the bfs Ben & Jerrys too Its a good excuse to pig out... Thats the way I see it :rolleyes:

Hahaha, used to do all this but...since I've been seeing movies at the rate of 3 per week for the last six months, I really had to give up ! Bottle of water and an apple/banana for me sadly!

byte

Medium Coke, Medium Popcorn, and a tub of hot nuts! nyom!

Occasionally, I'd get nachos.

Chris P Duck

Large bag of M&Ms (or Minstrels) with a large diet coke please

Charlie

I use to feel that the food was all part and parcel of the gig and made a good time of it, but then they stopped putting butter on the popcorn everywhere, the butter lured you into paying €6 for a tub of popcorn:D , but now it just seems like a rip!

charba

Pick n Mix, is my fave cinema food. and i'll always get it from the mega overpriced cinema because I never have the foreseight to actually get it before hand.

xzanti

charba wrote:

Pick n Mix, is my fave cinema food. and i'll always get it from the mega overpriced cinema because I never have the foreseight to actually get it before hand.

Oh yeah I love those too.. My bag usually consists of jelly cherries, pink bon bons, cola cubes, cola bottles, white mice, choc raisins, fudge cubes and of course one or two of those oversized jelly spiders Although I am partial to the Sweet Factory when Im out shopping which is generally the same sort of thing

charba

My favourite have to be the white chocolate mice, and letting them melt in your mouth, so nice I also like the buttons with hundreds and thousands melted on them. and toffee bon bons.

xzanti

charba wrote:

My favourite have to be the white chocolate mice, and letting them melt in your mouth, so nice I also like the buttons with hundreds and thousands melted on them. and toffee bon bons.

Tbh I like when I get to the little ones in the end of the bag.. Just pour them out on your hand and get a little bit of everything mixed together

God.. I have to stop eating sweets :v:

charba

it's Lent so now is as good a time as anyway to start

Tar.Aldarion

Nothing usually but If I was going to eat, I would bring it in myself. Ridiculous prices.

Hagar

xzanti wrote:

are you one of those people who smuggle a Spar bag full of bars and crisps in??

Ridiculous suggestion, if I were to do that where would I hide my video camera and tripod.;)

Morrigan

bit too pricey for me... €3 for a 750 ml bottle of water in UGC - €1.50 in that little shop around the corner from it...
If I'm feeling flush I get a medium coke and bag of pick'n'mix - jellies and chocolate covered peanuts - mmmmm... I usually eat too much and feel vaguely nauseous for the rest of the day, though...
Foods containing sauces should be BANNED in my honest opinion. The do tend to fill the auditorium with a strong aroma...Hotdogs and nachos are the main culprits...although butter popcorn could come under this ban too...

Charlie

Morrigan wrote:

although butter popcorn could come under this ban too...

BOOOOOOO! This has practically happened already.

rubadub

Extra large coke, smuggled in bottle of vodka, leave the place hammered and head to the boozer.

The newsagent in dun laoghaire does a roaring trade next to the cinema. If they charged reasonable prices they may make more profit.

simu

Meejum Coke and Haribo Mix.

misswex

Medium popcorn and a bag of M&Ms thrown on top and mixed into the popcorn - yummy!!!

Dreamsphere

well, everytime i go to the cinema i always get a strawberry or lime slushy. one of those big bags of tattoo if im in a bad mood. or a small popcorn if im not and a smarties ^_^

TerrorFirmer

Back in the day eg. when I was a fat bloater, it used to be a large coke, large popcorn, and bag of sweets to go with it.

These days it's usually a bottle of water or a pepsi max with either a popcorn or small bag of pick and mix...

Sometimes candy floss. As little as 90kcal per large tub! I know its just fluffed sugar but still....:D

cormie

My friend has brought in a steak wrapped up in tinfoil to the cinema and also a carton of milk:rolleyes: Pretty funny just seeing everyone else there with their popcorn and coke and he's munching away on a steak and washing it down leaving a white moustache:)

stovelid

Has to be those nachos with the little tray of synthetic cheesy stuff...mmmmmm

Ruu_Old

Very little these days, a small popcorn and a small drink, maybe some M&Ms even though on certain days at the local cinema you can "bring your own bucket":eek:, ugh sickening.

Noelie

I used to be a real pig, I coud have a large popcorn gone before the movie would even start. now myself and my girlfirend get bag of sweetie a drink each and Lg popcorn, which i never manage to finish, popcorn is always too salty.

I remeber when i was in the states years ago, there was an offer of large drink and popcorn for 6$ and you'd get a refill of each, americans used to get sweets and nachos with this and still get their refill, i only ever managed a refill once and that was of the popcorn.

Faith

I bring in my own, when I think ahead. I'm a student, I can barely afford to GO to the cinema, never mind pay the ridiculous prices for food! It'd usually be a reasonablely sized bay of Pick and Mix, with a bottle of water or diet Coke.

sonic juice

A carton of cranberry juice and a french roll

Crucifix

I used to be very spartan about it, but my friend got me hooked on Big bags of peanut M&Ms. You eat them in the cinema, have some more on the train home, and still have some left for the next day.

Kintarō Hattori

At the very most a bottle of coke and a bar. I think it's distracting both for you and the other cinema goers if your eating something big/hot/smelly, so I tend to keep it simple.

ronano

I'm a bum but!

dairy milk coconut rough
1 litre of mango and orange smoothie from the aldi/lidl nearest to it

I go in take a cup and a straw and am on my merry lil way

babaduck

We tend to have lunch/dinner out, before we go to the cinema, so all we usually bring is a bottle of water

Catari Jaguar

My friend works in my local cinema, gives me free large drink/ popcorn. bags of sweets. It's great.
I work in a place that sells pick n mix and am good at guessing how much a bag will cost. But I was in Cinweorld in town and what I thought would be about e1.50 was e4.30! I got the guy to weigh me a choc brazil nut and bon bon and it cost 53c. wtf?? Rip off central. :mad: They have good hot dogs there though, so it's not all bad.

emeraldstar

^^^ oh my god yeah a friend of mine got pick n mix in there last week and it cost him e10-something!! now it was a big enough bag of sweets, but nothing near that expensive. i've bought bigger bags than that before for 6 euros in other places...so dear in there!! :eek:

Rb

xzanti wrote:

Oh yeah I love those too.. My bag usually consists of jelly cherries, pink bon bons, cola cubes, cola bottles, white mice, choc raisins, fudge cubes and of course one or two of those oversized jelly spiders Although I am partial to the Sweet Factory when Im out shopping which is generally the same sort of thing

You've got good taste Xzanti

Usually when I go to a film I get a large coke, bag of malteasers and either a medium popcorn or a bag of pick n mix and no matter how much I've eaten beforehand, I'll still buy 'em!

mack1

Sorry if this is off-topic...

...but the OP mentioned sneaking sweets in from spar etc.
I've been told that it is illegal for a cinema to prevent you bringing in your own sweets and drinks etc.

Anyone know if this is defo the fact or had any experiences with cinemas when doin it?

~nop~

Nah tbh in my local cinema they never stop anybody, even when it's mad obvious. I think for it to be legal they'd have to have signs up and all that malarky

Daelus

I usually get a medium popcorn and medium drink. I tried a large popcorn the other day but couldn't finish it.
Sometimes a bag of revels instead of the popcorn.
This is only if I'm treating myself. Most times I'd just sneak a bottle of water and a bar in.

My friend once bought a cooked chicken in Tesco and brought it in.

marshmallow

My friend got me hooked on buying Hagen Daz Belgian Choc ice-cream in UGC (cineworld) and now they've changed from Hagen Daz to Ben & Jerry's!

I love Ben & Jerry's and all but I dont buy it in small tubs, WAY too expensive.
The food in UGC is so expensive! I forgot to buy a bottle of water before I went in and ended up buying one there which cost €3.30!! WTF?? For WATER!

TerrorFirmer

Really outdid myself today at Night at the Museum. Large Popcorn, extra large pepsi, Malteasers, candy floss and nachos. Beat that!

Piste

I used to always get food, but now that I go to the cinema so much (I LOVE the Cineworld Unlimited card!) I don;t have the money. In fact I very rarely even buy popcor unless I'm splitting it with someone.

nervous_twitch

Piste wrote:

I used to always get food, but now that I go to the cinema so much (I LOVE the Cineworld Unlimited card!) I don;t have the money. In fact I very rarely even buy popcor unless I'm splitting it with someone.

I have Unlimited too; and am now well acquainted with the Tesco in Jervis St Shopping Centre

Theta

Its part of going to the cinema for me to get my large popcorn and drink and a bag of pick and mix or sweets!

afatbollix

~nop~ wrote:

Nah tbh in my local cinema they never stop anybody, even when it's mad obvious. I think for it to be legal they'd have to have signs up and all that malarky

only hot food we can stop you from bringing in..o and alcohol..
thats cineworld anyway..

Jesus Wept

charlie mchugh wrote:

BOOOOOOO! This has practically happened already.

the butter ban was really out of line...

...maybe ill start bringing my own butter, see how they like that!