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Cinema Food - Do You Smuggle?

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  • #62
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I pay but to be honest, the prices are ridiculous and I'm beginning to think about smuggling
    Roadend wrote: »
    Where's the "I'm capable of sitting down down for 1-2 hours without having to stuff myself with ****e" option?

    On smug.com, I think.


  • #63
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Spore wrote: »
    *Ah response: rabble rabble rabble fight the man rabble rabble rabble

    YOU post in AH, so YOU are in fact "AH" .

    I hate that "rabble, rabble" sh*** people come out with referring to everyone who post here.

    In essence, you are accusing yourself of rabbling.


  • #64
    token56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    I worked in a cinema for the better part of 4 years as normal staff and a supervisor and would never stop anyone bringing their own food in, well except for alcohol and fast food. The prices are ridiculous and anyone who wants to pay them, well thats up to the individual, but I'm not going to stop someone bringing in their own food. While I know they do not make a huge profits from the ticket sales themselves, the margins cinemas make on the food they sell is ridiculous. Granted if everyone brought in their own food they wouldn't be able to stay in business for very long, but there is still no excuse for the crazy prices.


  • #65
    Spore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Spore


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    YOU post in AH, so YOU are in fact "AH" .

    I hate that "rabble, rabble" sh*** people come out with referring to everyone who post here.

    In essence, you are accusing yourself of rabbling.

    Calm down there Pete, just messing is all. Put away the sheriff's badge and six shooter.


  • #66
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I'd bring some popcorn and a drink for myself. I've bought the odd thing there, but wouldn't make a habit of it. Wallet rape tbh.


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  • #67
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Under €20 to get two adults and two kids tickets.

    Food came to... €28!

    Bloody right I smuggle food in!


  • #68
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    token56 wrote: »
    I worked in a cinema for the better part of 4 years as normal staff and a supervisor and would never stop anyone bringing their own food in, well except for alcohol and fast food. The prices are ridiculous and anyone who wants to pay them, well thats up to the individual, but I'm not going to stop someone bringing in their own food. While I know they do not make a huge profits from the ticket sales themselves, the margins cinemas make on the food they sell is ridiculous. Granted if everyone brought in their own food they wouldn't be able to stay in business for very long, but there is still no excuse for the crazy prices.

    Thanks for not stopping me with my pick'n'mix bag.

    Even though I know cinemas have to charge a little over the odds to stay afloat, the prices have no relation to reality. It's approached the point of diminishing returns, I think, where people are too skint/p1ssed off to pay take-the-mick money. I mean, Light House Cinema is able to charge just €1.50 (IIRC) for popcorn - this is still a big money-spinner, but you don't feel like an eejit for paying it.

    I pay full whack about half the time on a pick'n'mix and maybe a slush puppy, more to try and keep a cinema going than anything else.


  • #69
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    judging by the sweets section in boots beside the cinema in liffey valley on a saturday evening, everyone smuggles-does be cleared out. i get some days where i just want to pig out and dont care bout the price so ill get a popcorn, pick n mix and a bucket of watered down coke. other times ill go into boots, get a drink, a packet of haribo etc and thats it.


  • #70
    Fromvert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,097 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    Smuggle in beer most of the time.


  • #71
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I pay but to be honest, the prices are ridiculous and I'm beginning to think about smuggling
    Abitar wrote: »
    Wallet rape tbh.

    Your purse is OK then? :P


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  • #72
    congo_90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭congo_90


    Nagin of vodka, bottle of coke bag of popcorn and 2 packs of crisps :)
    Sometimes if i'm feeling rich i'll buy their sh!t popcornor some of those stale nachos which i always spill all over myself!


  • #73
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Fromvert wrote: »
    Smuggle in beer most of the time.

    Cans or bottles?

    Open cans can be embarrassing in a cinema as people just hear: "CHEAP SKATE" when you crack it.


  • #74
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The smell of buttered popcorn disgusts me


  • #75
    Fromvert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,097 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Cans or bottles?

    Open cans can be embarrassing in a cinema as people just hear: "CHEAP SKATE" when you crack it.

    Cans I just wait for a loud part. Problems do arise if you break the seal to early and the film is 2+ hours.


  • #76
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Used to smuggle in fast food, now I just get a drink.


  • #77
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,264 ✭✭✭rednik


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Normally I find it hard to get food in after I have smuggled the family in.:D


  • #78
    neil_18_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭neil_18_


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    What if you're bringing kids to a birthday party. You can be paying €5 for food for 10 kids aswell as their tickets


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo


  • #79
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    I rarely smuggle, i like to go in and pay huge prices for popcorn then go to the rip off ireland sub forum on boards and make a thread about how it's a rip off


  • #80
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    I smuggle in some stuff- like my drink. But if i go to the cinema in tallaght (R.I.P :() i cant resist a lovely butter popcorn.

    If i go in town i just smuggle whatever i want in. 70c bag of popcorn and a bottle of pepsi and bobs yer uncle!


  • #81
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    But if i go to the cinema in tallaght (R.I.P :()

    Is the UCI in tallaght closing down? :eek:


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  • #82
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    i might buy a drink there
    but ever since the time the buttered popcorn had me up all night vomiting i tend to avoid buying food there


  • #83
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Is the UCI in tallaght closing down? :eek:

    Yea! As of tonight Tallaght has no cinema :( life isnt worth living...


  • #84
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Getting a salt overdose with the expensive popcorn and balancing it out with a sugar overload of a large watered down coke. What else do you need!

    I won't be smuggling any food for the premier of perrier's bounty in the Savoy on Wednesday :pac:


  • #85
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    Yea! As of tonight Tallaght has no cinema :( life isnt worth living...

    Now that has p***ed me off :(

    Tonights the last??

    First film I seen there was Frankie & Johnnie in '91.

    Fargo was on a few weeks back:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=64346768&postcount=131

    (Raiders Of The Lost Ark is on tonight in UCI Blanch and Temple of Doom is on in UCI Coolock)

    Damn, hate seeing cinemas close.

    Are they building a new one?


  • #86
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I pay but to be honest, the prices are ridiculous and I'm beginning to think about smuggling
    I work in a Cinema and our policy is you can bring in anything you like, so long as it doesnt smell (ie Mc Donalds or Pizza Hut etc)

    As has been said, the prices are very high because the actual cinema gets next to nothing out of the admission tickets, selling sweets is how it can afford to stay open.


  • #87
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Now that has p***ed me off :(

    Tonights the last??

    First film I seen there was Frankie & Johnnie in '91.

    Fargo was on a few weeks back:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=64346768&postcount=131

    (Raiders Of The Lost Ark is on tonight in UCI Blanch and Temple of Doom is on in UCI Coolock)

    Damn, hate seeing cinemas close.

    Are they building a new one?

    Theres rumours that they're gonna do it all up and reopen in a few months under new management. But theres also rumours that there's an uber cinema being built where woodies used to be so who knows! Its onlt Tallaght thats closing though...bloody typical!

    Now where will i get my butter popcorn :(:(


  • #88
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    No option for "No. I do not eat anything in the cinema" :(


  • #89
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Arent you allowed bring it in..just not like Maccy D's


  • #90
    Bolag_the_2nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Seloth wrote: »
    Arent you allowed bring it in..just not like Maccy D's

    ive always brought maccy D's into the pics, didnt know you wernt supposed to, no one ever said a word to me :confused:


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  • #91
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    No, I'll pay full prices as I am aware they have to charge what they do
    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    No option for "No. I do not eat anything in the cinema" :(

    Now you know how we feel when you sit down beside us with no grub and make us feel bad :(


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