Eating in the cinema

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-01-2018 03:01PM #1

Why can some people not sit through a two hour film without bringing in a truck load of food - half of it stinking to high heaven, and all of it involving crunching and munching and slurping?
No problem with someone quietly eating a bit of popcorn or some chocolate but the guy beside me last night was like a pig with his snout in a trough.

Salvation Tambourine · 26-01-2018 03:07PM

Annie Enough Recording wrote: »

Why can some people not sit through a two hour film without bringing in a truck load of food - half of it stinking to high heaven, and all of it involving crunching and munching and slurping?
No problem with someone quietly eating a bit of popcorn or some chocolate but the guy beside me last night was like a pig with his snout in a trough.

Personally I don't feel the need to stock up on sweets when I go to the cinema but I know people that will always get popcorn etc. because they feel it's part of the cinema experience.

CJhaughey · 26-01-2018 03:08PM

Try going to a cinema in Germany, not only can you drink beer but smoke cigarettes as well.

georgina toadbum · 26-01-2018 03:09PM

Best part of going to the cinema is the popcorn.

Guffy · 26-01-2018 03:10PM

Where else would i eat my nachos with extra cheese and jalapenos though?

Billy86 · 26-01-2018 03:11PM

georgina toadbum wrote: »

Best part of going to the cinema is the popcorn.

These days, usually only if you bring your own stick of butter and a lighter.

georgina toadbum · 26-01-2018 03:12PM

Billy86 wrote: »

These days, usually only if you bring your own stick of butter and a lighter.

Odeon cinemas offer butter. I always get them to lash it on.

Rory28 · 26-01-2018 03:12PM

Billy86 wrote: »

These days, usually only if you bring your own stick of butter and a lighter.

Odeon in Castletroy, Limerick use butter. Its amazing.

TerrorFirmer · 26-01-2018 03:13PM

CJhaughey wrote: »

Try going to a cinema in Germany, not only can you drink beer but smoke cigarettes as well.

You can drink in some cinemas here. I know the Eye here in Galway serves beer/cider/wine.

I always eat something at the cinema. Usually popcorn or chocolate, nothing that would make any real noise/smell though.

What would people be eating that 'stinks to high heaven', realistically? Hot Dog is gone in two minutes, and nachos are hardly that strongly scented.

mordeith · 26-01-2018 03:14PM

georgina toadbum wrote: »

Best part of going to the cinema is the popcorn.

Popcorn of course being a notoriously difficult foodstuff to prepare in your own home

Your Face · 26-01-2018 03:14PM

I never really noticed.
Probably because I'm there to watch a film.

kenmc · 26-01-2018 03:16PM

Netherlands was great like that, they had a half time break so you could get another round of drinks in, so your beer didn't get warm or flat before you got to the second bottle

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-01-2018 03:17PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You can drink in some cinemas here. I know the Eye here in Galway serves beer/cider/wine.

I always eat something at the cinema. Usually popcorn or chocolate, nothing that would make any real noise/smell though.

What would people be eating that 'stinks to high heaven', realistically? Hot Dog is gone in two minutes, and nachos are hardly that strongly scented.

I think it's the sauce that goes with the nachos that really smells. Likewise while one hot dog is gone in a few minutes, if several people are eating them it takes longer than that and the smell continues to linger all over the place. I don't think too many people would like someone to sit down beside them on a bus and start eating hot smelly food, so why would they like someone doing it to them in a cinema.

As I said, no problem with food like popcorn or chocolate bars that can be eaten quietly and doesn't smell.

Guffy · 26-01-2018 03:18PM

mordeith wrote: »

Popcorn of course being a notoriously difficult foodstuff to prepare in your own home

Ah it is if you want to make cinema tasing popcorn. All the bits and bobs you have to get.

Guffy · 26-01-2018 03:19PM

Annie Enough Recording wrote: »

I think it's the sauce that goes with the nachos that really smells. Likewise while one hot dog is gone in a few minutes, if several people are eating them it takes longer than that and the smell continues to linger all over the place. I don't think too many people would like someone to sit down beside them on a bus and start eating hot smelly food, so why would they like someone doing it to them in a cinema.

As I said, no problem with food like popcorn or chocolate bars that can be eaten quietly and doesn't smell.

How does 5 peiple eating hotdogs take longer than one person eating a hot dog???

I mean i get it if 1 person was eating 5 hot dogs.

Bracken81 · 26-01-2018 03:20PM

What i find amusing is how often people still frequent the cinema..........be cheaper to hire Brad Pitt to reenact the film in your living room! :-)

Boom_Bap · 26-01-2018 03:22PM

What's your spaghetti policy here

wakka12 · 26-01-2018 03:22PM

Bracken81 wrote: »

What i find amusing is how often people still frequent the cinema..........be cheaper to hire Brad Pitt to reenact the film in your living room! :-)

It is expensive but its fun and a lot more enjoyable than staying at home watching something

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-01-2018 03:23PM

Guffy wrote: »

How does 5 peiple eating hotdogs take longer than one person eating a hot dog???

I mean i get it if 1 person was eating 5 hot dogs.

Well unless the door opens at a set time and everyone rushes in at once, then you're going to have the 'eating of the hot dog' spread out from about ten minutes before the screen comes on, right through the ads and trailers and through the start of the film as people continue to arrive in dribs and drabs.

Vladimir Poontang · 26-01-2018 03:24PM

The worst ones are the fat ****s with gallon buckets of everything, wedged into a seat and smacking their lips like jabba the hut. Gross.

the purple tin · 26-01-2018 03:24PM

CJhaughey wrote: »

Try going to a cinema in Germany, not only can you drink beer but smoke cigarettes as well.

Lovely, passive smoke, smelly clothes and people barging past you to piddle every ten minutes.:(
Sweets in crinkly, rustly wrappers are the worst, especially when they are passed around a group- once you start to get really drawn in by an excellent scene, without fail *crinkle, crinkle* :mad:

26-01-2018 03:25PM

mordeith wrote: »

Popcorn of course being a notoriously difficult foodstuff to prepare in your own home

But you'd never get that day old mature crispy yet rubbery taste/texture mix right, I think the butter/heart attack oil probably disguises it a bit.
My other half wants the full cinema experience including the rip off popcorn and drinks, I try get her to smuggle in bottles of coke & bags of popcorn in her handbag.

D3V!L · 26-01-2018 03:25PM

CJhaughey wrote: »

Try going to a cinema in Germany, not only can you drink beer but smoke cigarettes as well.

What cinemas allow smoking in them ? I've never come across it in all my time there.

the_syco · 26-01-2018 03:25PM

Annie Enough Recording wrote: »

Why can some people not sit through a two hour film without bringing in a truck load of food - half of it stinking to high heaven, and all of it involving crunching and munching and slurping?

Cinemas often get a very low percentage of the ticket sale; usually enough to just cover the cost of the paper! Cinemas make their money from the food. Thus no food = no cinema.

Guffy · 26-01-2018 03:26PM

Annie Enough Recording wrote: »

Well unless the door opens at a set time and everyone rushes in at once, then you're going to have the 'eating of the hot dog' spread out from about ten minutes before the screen comes on, right through the ads and trailers and through the start of the film as people continue to arrive in dribs and drabs.

Do you go to a one row cinema screen? Come off it. Tbh i think you are looking to be offended by smells than actually being hit by them. When was the last time four or five people realistically sat withing nose shot of you eating a hot dog.

Tbh the question should really be, who is the judgmental so and so who keeps looking at the majority of people for eating food in the cinema?

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-01-2018 03:26PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Lovely, passive smoke, smelly clothes and people barging past you to piddle every ten minutes.:(
Sweets in crinkly, rustly wrappers are the worst, especially when they are passed around a group- once you start to get really drawn in by an excellent scene, without fail *crinkle, crinkle* :mad:

And there's always someone who has to rummage right down to the bottom of the bag to get their favourite caramel one - just as a dramatic scene is reaching its moving climax.

Space Dog · 26-01-2018 03:26PM

CJhaughey wrote: »

Try going to a cinema in Germany, not only can you drink beer but smoke cigarettes as well.

Um no you can't smoke in German cinemas, unless you travel back in time to the 70s.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-01-2018 03:28PM

Guffy wrote: »

Do you go to a one row cinema screen? Come off it. Tbh i think you are looking to be offended by smells than actually being hit by them. When was the last time four or five people realistically sat withing nose shot of you eating a hot dog.

Tbh the question should really be, who is the judgmental so and so who keeps looking at the majority of people for eating food in the cinema?

Yeah, that's it. I sit in the cinema sniffing suspiciously and scouring the rows in case anyone has some nachos or hot dogs. I actually brought my binoculars last night in case I missed an 'imaginary' smell up the front row

AryaStark · 26-01-2018 03:28PM

Annie Enough Recording wrote: »

I think it's the sauce that goes with the nachos that really smells. Likewise while one hot dog is gone in a few minutes, if several people are eating them it takes longer than that and the smell continues to linger all over the place. I don't think too many people would like someone to sit down beside them on a bus and start eating hot smelly food, so why would they like someone doing it to them in a cinema.

As I said, no problem with food like popcorn or chocolate bars that can be eaten quietly and doesn't smell.

I love popcorn, but you cannot say that it doesn't smell!!! A friend of mine hates popcorn and the smell of it! She doesn't go to the cinema because of it... she doesn't complain though I think she knows that she is weird!!

Guffy · 26-01-2018 03:28PM

Annie Enough Recording wrote: »

Yeah, that's it. I sit in the cinema sniffing suspiciously and scouring the rows in case anyone has some nachos or hot dogs. I actually brought my binoculars last night in case I missed an 'imaginary' smell up the front row

Knew it

Oink · 26-01-2018 03:35PM

They used to show a message onscreen :”don’t make your own sound effects” i.e chew and slurp like a pig.
Now it’s all “feel free to buy our food and drinks”. Anything for a buck.

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