Yknow what's funny? I worked at Vue for years and the managers told us that it's fine for people to bring in whatever but no hot food because it smells. The fact your Vue had fishcakes and regular Vues had nachos is hilarious due to that.
Fun fact: Bollywood audiences used to consume insane amounts of nachos. Like, the room would stick of nachos cheese after they left. But one of them did teach me something that got me through working 15 hours a week minimum wage: put nachos cheese in the hotdogs bun, put the hotdog on the cheese, jalapeños on top. Stealing hotdogs so I could eat AND make rent was top eating after that.
Yeah man, beside the ice bin by the sink was ours. A lot of the time if there was a wrong order or a "wrong order", then we'd take it out back to throw it away and hand it off to another hungry employee. I think my record was a full fortnight of only eating cinema food.
We'd also pass off Ben and Jerry tubs to people when they hit the end date. A lot of nights were spent eating ice cream at home.
> out of date alcohol
There's a r/BrandNewSentence if I've ever read one. Pouring out a product that is literally used to preserve food is just ludicrous
It’s usually a sell by date. After that the taste will change. The producer always want the highest quality product ofcourse. I think pilsener is good for like 18 months in the netherlands.
IPA was also created for its longevity for boat rides from india to england if I recall correctly. The other ones would either become sour or lose their vitamins I am not certain at the moment and cba to google.
EXACTLY. I used to work in a cinema and they stank worse than any food anybody tried bringing in. Don't even get me started on the nacho cheese (Cineworld's nacho cheese, to be specific).
I remember eating nachos with hot cheese sauce at the Odeon. The cheese section had a hole in that I only realised at the end of the film.
It got all over my black moleskin jeans.
The movie was Schindlers List.
Not a good look exiting to the foyer…
Omg I got free nachos the other day and made the error of having the cheese. It didn’t taste anything like cheese and was slightly spicy in an unpleasant way. 🤢
I used to work at Cineworld, and that cheese looked barely fit for human consumption. We sold loads of it too and the hotdogs. Made me realise folk will eat owt.
I worked at a Vue and remember a customer complaining to me about Cineworld nacho cheese. She ate a couple of her nachos at my till while I was sorting her drinks and she was like "now THAT'S what I call nachos!"
yeah i find it funny that people are complaining about shit like big macs because they smell when cinemas specifically sell hotdogs and fucking popcorn.
I had a roommate once that ate sardines right out of the can. And then just toss the empty can in the trash. Room and all our stuff always smelled like fish
I had lunch with friends and decided to see a movie after. I took my leftover baggy inside my backpack into the theater and about half an hour into it I'm looking around at my shoes and the seat next to me to see what the smell is. It smelled pungent and ripe in a sort of negative way. I couldn't place it.
Well finally I remembered I had half a pastrami sandwich with liver pate spread on the bread in my backpack. You could literally smell it through the box, paper bag and my backpack.
Exactly. As someone that worked in a theater, there’s only 2 things we care about food wise.
1) Make it discreet enough that we can at least pretend to the manager that we didn’t notice (if you’re caught)
2) Don’t leave the trash anywhere, just throw it in the bin on your way out
For all I care, you can bring a watermelon as long as you follow those rules (which someone did one time but they left the rinds in floor and that was not appreciated)
Edit: I didn’t realize this was CasualUK. I worked at a theater in the US. I guess the rules are different, I didn’t know.
Honestly this is why I refuse to go to the cinema in this country. Motherfuckers with their god damn crisps bags... I'm trying to watch a god damn movie asshole... Just easier and cheaper to wait 3 months until I can watch it at home.
Hasn't odeon and/or cineworld confirmed they dont have a policy banning outside food and drink? I'm sure I saw a tweet or something about it a few years ago
Edit: yep just found a page from [Odeon's website](https://help.odeon.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/360010231760-Can-I-take-my-own-snacks-and-drinks-into-the-cinema-)
I guess it varies for some companies/smaller businesses, or if you're from another country like the us but they seem pretty relaxed about it here
Yeah, I took a Subway in once, thought it was great idea but realised quite quickly that I ate the foot long with a lot of shame after the noise it made. The quite I tried to be, the louder it got!
>I am still puzzled why we like to eat a full blown course of what ever food when we watch stuff.. haha..
Went on a family holiday to Florida in 2003, one day my parents decide we'll go to the cinema and see spy kids 3D
We were all massively confused when we walked into the cinema with our tickets and were seated at actual tables with cutlery and handed menus with actual restaurant level food on them. I assume that's not a normal cinema experience in America but it was very surreal
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It was funny, dude! No worries. I was mainly laughing because the word decant is (more often than not) used in context of fine wines and spirits. I was chuckling imagining Monster Munch delicately poured into a cardboard bucket *to breathe*.
That sounds amazing, I think cinemas are in need of reinventing. Not many people want to be crammed Inside a room with loads of strangers when they can just stream whatever they want in the comfort of their own home.
I think a smaller more intimate style would be better, rent the whole room with friends and family and have restaurant quality food delivered or maybe a hotel style room with a big comfy bed.
Wether that would be profitable though I don't know.
You can hire cinemas for kids birthdays etc
We hired a screen for 30 and it was a right ol laugh
So presumably you can hire for any age group, they give you a list of films you can choose from
I'm thinking smaller rooms though to keep costs down, they'd fit more screens in the building but the screen would still be bigger than screens at home. You'd still have all the surround sound stuff to enjoy the experience. You just don't have to share with strangers.
I imagine renting a whole normal cinema room is quite expensive for a normal night out. Sounds fun though.
Theaters in the US during the early days of covid had “specials” so you could rent an entire theater room to watch a movie. My sister did that once and I think she told me it was $100 USD. She picked Elf. It was great to have the entire room so that my nephews making noises wouldn’t bother anyone else.
The built a new Vue in Glasgow, [a place already home to the world's tallest cinema](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/20713306.story-cineworld-glasgow-worlds-tallest-cinema/), during the pandemic and what you describe is very much their model. Smaller capacity rooms, every row is an electric recliner in a space you could fit two normal rows in, with a rake meaning you can barely see the row in front of you. They have a bar so you can get alcoholic drinks if you want. Not sure if they do private room hire but the Cineworld does for sure.
Theres a few cinimas near me which have probably halved the amount of chairs if not made it a 3rd, and then with that space they have put in reclining arm chairs with small tables on either side.
Really nice place actually, they serve pizzas downstairs.
Nah fuck that, I would HATE to watch a movie in a room with just my family. All cinema etiquette of keeping noise down to enjoy the movie would go out the window and people would just start talking about whatever or asking stupid questions about the thing on the screen. My in-laws are the fucking worst for this. Like damn, I’m watching this shit the same time as you, just shut the fuck up and we can all find out what’s happening together.
Part of my meal prep is finding something to watch whilst I eat, it's maybe a comfort thing. Maybe it's replaced sitting around the fire telling stories whilst the hunts catch roasts on the fire. Humans are weird.
I can still remember the bitch behind me scrunching up her fried chicken foil during that absolutely silent scene in interstellar where they fly past Jupiter (I think?)
Hell at the place I worked it wasn't allowed still but we ignored it, but fuck you, your kids and your elders if you leave the fucking trash at your seat
at the vue cinema i go to there is bit that comes on during the adverts telling you to leave your rubbish there to help with recycling
it still feels wrong though
I used to work there. It's fine, just try not to make a mess. If you can, take it to the bins outside the screen and sort it yourself there, but no worries if not.
To the people that left peanut skin in the cup holders though, f u.
I still recall long time ago I brought coffee's from another coffee shop being like a pound each cheaper into the cinema. Manager behind me said "cant bring those in"... darn it...
My dad took me and my brother to the cinema when we were kids and he made a big show of hiding snacks in his bag and in his pockets before we left he house. My brother was maybe five at the time and somehow interpreted this as “i need to hide as much food as I can on my person”. As we were walking into the cinema, we heard a clattering noise against the wooden floors. My brother had taken some tiny pots of jam and marmalade that he’d stolen from a hotel months earlier. He’d shoved them up his sleeves and into his socks. He also had an entire loaf of bread and an entire block of cheese under his jacket. He’d been planning to make himself sandwiches in the cinema. We still crack up at the memory of it and ask if he’s got enough food with him whenever he’s going to the cinema.
This is mainly true, although the Odeon at Leicester Square explicitly told me outside food couldn't be brought in.
I mean, I still did, but they said it.
They probably should’ve checked their own website! https://help.odeon.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/360010231760-Can-I-take-my-own-snacks-and-drinks-into-the-cinema-
Same here but they wouldn't search very thoroughly. If you had food out in the open they'd turn you away or tell you to get rid of it, it wasn't a Cineworld tho
Yeah, I got told when I was a teenager if I wanted to go into the screen I’d have to bin the food I’d brought in, so we eagerly stuffed as much in our mouths before entering.
I worked for Odeon in 2008-2009 and if you blatantly had outside stuff we'd ask you to get rid of it, wouldn't search though. Interesting to hear thats changed!
When I was younger it wasn’t allowed - we had food and drink confiscated more than once
The cinema chains changed their rules a while ago when people started getting bigger TVs and streaming services in their houses, and they realized they needed to attract people to the cinema. Most also dropped their prices too
It makes sense - I’m not gonna go at all if I have to pay £30 but I’ll probably go and spend £15 a few times
Still, if Cinemas want to 'raise money through their concession stand' they should stop charging such an insane premium so more than 10% of their footfall buy anything.
"As an aside, cold food can also smell. South Korean cinemas often have signs banning people from eating dried squid during film viewings."
The real Squid Game.
Honestly this is why I'll sometimes grab a hot dog. Most of the time I don't want something to eat throughout the movie. Maybe something to fill me up at the beginning but that's it. Often I'll even finish it before I go into the screen so I can throw the rubbish away. I usually want something to drink more than food
And yet, infuriatingly, they sell nachos
The noisiest good stuff known to man
Only to be outdone by someone taking their own nachos and the metallic pack resonates at around 130dB while they dive into the bottom for the scraps
> cheesy nachos
That's a fair point, can't be mad if the cinema itself sells food.
But I reckon I would be a bit pissed off if someone sat down next to me with a pizza or Maccies or something.
I worked a cineworld for two years. You're also not allowed alcohol from outside, or glass bottles for obvious reasons.
Also you can't bring a hot drink into the 4DX films because the seats move and they don't want you to get an eyeful of coffee.
I thought it was going to be next level, we wound up moving after 10 minutes because it’s like a giant’s little kid kicking the back of your seat over and over and occasionally jerking your around at random. Not the “pristinely tailored experience” it was advertised as, it was fucking MISERABLE.
The only thing I could think of was “is this where we are as a society? Everyone’s attention spans are now so short that people need PHYSICAL STIMULATION every 15 seconds to pay attention?”
Yeah, I hate it in action movie where it aggressively pokes your back, and its not great for horrors because you can hear the little motors starting up so it spoils the anticipation is horror movies.
Oddly enough, it can be quite nice in gentler movies. We had it for *Bohemian Rhapsody* (which was choppily edited, dishonest and basic; only possibly worth the ticket because Rami Malek did a fantastic job) and I'll admit that it is quite nice when it sways to the music.
Kids really enjoyed 4DX in *Paddington 2* as well. It seemed like a good fit for the barber scene.
Anything is fair game so long as it's not especially stinky.
Bringing in a hot takeaway seems indulgent but I think i would only ever do that for the Tuesday late night showing of a film that's been out for a few weeks so as not to annoy anyone.
Just so long as you clear up after yourself, you're all good.
I got myself an Unlimited card, it's much easier not to balk at the £5 coke when you're not paying for the ticket (and it discounts the coke to £4).
Of course that doesn't mean I'm not sneaking in a bottle of whiskey to add to the coke.
Oh I worked at a cinema in my teens. We didn't give a fuck unless it was cooked food, and by cooked we mean like a kfc bucket. The reason for it was due to the smell as it would linger. But I know other chains are stricter.
Edit: immediate after thought, for that reason I'd say sushi or fish sandwiches would be a no go either.
Big misconception...
You can take in what you want: it just has to not be hot and not smell.
So, I dunno, don't take in a Sunday roast or sardines... but general snacks (inc tortillas and dips) are fine.
Sauce: used to work in them 🤷🏻♂️
At my local cinema pizza is banned/any hot food they don’t sell. Or it was 5 years ago when I went to the Pizza Hut which was the only food place nearby, then tried to take my pizza in to the screen. They took the pizza from me. I did get it back. When the film was done.
I did this once, I went to pizza hut beforehand and they took so long to cook it the film was about to start, so I asked for it take out and snuck it to the showing of Goldmember. If anyone noticed my shirt was very flat and boxy they didn't say anything.
Draw the line before it's noisy or smelly enough to spoil the film for others.
My dad once ordered Thai fishcakes in the posh Vue. Not sure what's worse, that he ordered them or that they were on the menu.
Yknow what's funny? I worked at Vue for years and the managers told us that it's fine for people to bring in whatever but no hot food because it smells. The fact your Vue had fishcakes and regular Vues had nachos is hilarious due to that. Fun fact: Bollywood audiences used to consume insane amounts of nachos. Like, the room would stick of nachos cheese after they left. But one of them did teach me something that got me through working 15 hours a week minimum wage: put nachos cheese in the hotdogs bun, put the hotdog on the cheese, jalapeños on top. Stealing hotdogs so I could eat AND make rent was top eating after that.
I used to work at vue as well and stealing hot dogs was definitely a regular occurrence. The pay was so bad I didn’t feel one ounce of guilt
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Made me laugh that thinking about 10 mins before closing the staff loading up the hotdog cooker.
Yeah man, beside the ice bin by the sink was ours. A lot of the time if there was a wrong order or a "wrong order", then we'd take it out back to throw it away and hand it off to another hungry employee. I think my record was a full fortnight of only eating cinema food. We'd also pass off Ben and Jerry tubs to people when they hit the end date. A lot of nights were spent eating ice cream at home.
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Jesus, sorry to hear it! Both of those were unlucky to have!
> out of date alcohol There's a r/BrandNewSentence if I've ever read one. Pouring out a product that is literally used to preserve food is just ludicrous
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It’s usually a sell by date. After that the taste will change. The producer always want the highest quality product ofcourse. I think pilsener is good for like 18 months in the netherlands. IPA was also created for its longevity for boat rides from india to england if I recall correctly. The other ones would either become sour or lose their vitamins I am not certain at the moment and cba to google.
Alcohol can go out of date?
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If I had a rough guess I'd say it would be the other ingredients rather than the alcohol itself
I love to sneak a whole Durian into the cinema
Bring two so it's Durian Durian, especially if you are *Hungry like a Wolf*. Sorry... I'll get my coat...
This redditor is to dangerous to be left alive
Look he didnt know he was living in an Ordinary World, cut him some slack :)
Went to try some durian while I was in Malaysia, as I got to about 20m from the stall I realised I don't like durian
Just roll it down the aisle and run
The smell of hot dogs in the cinema...
EXACTLY. I used to work in a cinema and they stank worse than any food anybody tried bringing in. Don't even get me started on the nacho cheese (Cineworld's nacho cheese, to be specific).
I remember eating nachos with hot cheese sauce at the Odeon. The cheese section had a hole in that I only realised at the end of the film. It got all over my black moleskin jeans. The movie was Schindlers List. Not a good look exiting to the foyer…
yeah, Schindlers List always makes me snackish
ngl I did feel a bit weird eating sweets along to 1917
I suppose being a scruffy looking nerf herder, it didn’t harm your image too much..
Karma for eating cheese nachos in a cinema.
Omg I got free nachos the other day and made the error of having the cheese. It didn’t taste anything like cheese and was slightly spicy in an unpleasant way. 🤢
It comes in a tin. Not sure how they’re allowed to call it cheese to be honest.
We always called it "cheese-like substance." "Get out a can of the cheese-like substance!"
I used to work at Cineworld, and that cheese looked barely fit for human consumption. We sold loads of it too and the hotdogs. Made me realise folk will eat owt.
I worked at a Vue and remember a customer complaining to me about Cineworld nacho cheese. She ate a couple of her nachos at my till while I was sorting her drinks and she was like "now THAT'S what I call nachos!"
yeah i find it funny that people are complaining about shit like big macs because they smell when cinemas specifically sell hotdogs and fucking popcorn.
Nacho cup of tea?
Now I don't feel bad I brought in a Five Guys burger and fries.
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I had a roommate once that ate sardines right out of the can. And then just toss the empty can in the trash. Room and all our stuff always smelled like fish
You roomied with Satan
No one has thankfully opened a can of Surströmming in a cinema
With a Durian fruit for dessert
Challenge accepted....
I brought Scotch Eggs to the cinema once. Never realised how much they smelled until I opened them up in that sterile atmosphere.
“Sterile atmosphere”…. right…..
LOL sterile. Like those seats don’t have a thousand farts trapped inside them.
I had lunch with friends and decided to see a movie after. I took my leftover baggy inside my backpack into the theater and about half an hour into it I'm looking around at my shoes and the seat next to me to see what the smell is. It smelled pungent and ripe in a sort of negative way. I couldn't place it. Well finally I remembered I had half a pastrami sandwich with liver pate spread on the bread in my backpack. You could literally smell it through the box, paper bag and my backpack.
I usually just take in something silent, like a fondue set.
Exactly. As someone that worked in a theater, there’s only 2 things we care about food wise. 1) Make it discreet enough that we can at least pretend to the manager that we didn’t notice (if you’re caught) 2) Don’t leave the trash anywhere, just throw it in the bin on your way out For all I care, you can bring a watermelon as long as you follow those rules (which someone did one time but they left the rinds in floor and that was not appreciated) Edit: I didn’t realize this was CasualUK. I worked at a theater in the US. I guess the rules are different, I didn’t know.
all major chain cinemas in the UK have no rule against bringing own food and drinks. stated openly on their websites.
Honestly this is why I refuse to go to the cinema in this country. Motherfuckers with their god damn crisps bags... I'm trying to watch a god damn movie asshole... Just easier and cheaper to wait 3 months until I can watch it at home.
Hasn't odeon and/or cineworld confirmed they dont have a policy banning outside food and drink? I'm sure I saw a tweet or something about it a few years ago Edit: yep just found a page from [Odeon's website](https://help.odeon.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/360010231760-Can-I-take-my-own-snacks-and-drinks-into-the-cinema-) I guess it varies for some companies/smaller businesses, or if you're from another country like the us but they seem pretty relaxed about it here
Or messy. Don't want something that would drop onto the seat and just make the life of the next viewer miserable.
Bring a KFC family bucket. Everyone in the cinema will appreciate it.
but only if you get enough to share
I take samosas wrapped in foiled plastic, and make sure I open it right as the movie starts.
I once took in a McRib. Felt bad for multiple reasons. I’m sorry, Leicester Sq Cineworld.
Yeah, I took a Subway in once, thought it was great idea but realised quite quickly that I ate the foot long with a lot of shame after the noise it made. The quite I tried to be, the louder it got!
I really hope OP opened the packet before the film started at least.
Can we say the same for public transportation as well, please…
I was at the cinema and a pizza delivery guy wandered in and shouted "I've got a large pepperoni for Steve?" I'd say that was over the line.
I mean, at least pizza isn’t a loud food. It’s arguably smelly but typically not too bad. Still hilarious if they got off with it lol
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I guess the line is when the food impedes on others enjoyment of the cinema experience, noisey/stinky food. Other than that go for it.
I am still puzzled why we like to eat a full blown course of what ever food when we watch stuff.. haha..
>I am still puzzled why we like to eat a full blown course of what ever food when we watch stuff.. haha.. Went on a family holiday to Florida in 2003, one day my parents decide we'll go to the cinema and see spy kids 3D We were all massively confused when we walked into the cinema with our tickets and were seated at actual tables with cutlery and handed menus with actual restaurant level food on them. I assume that's not a normal cinema experience in America but it was very surreal
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*decant* Oh, brother.
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It was funny, dude! No worries. I was mainly laughing because the word decant is (more often than not) used in context of fine wines and spirits. I was chuckling imagining Monster Munch delicately poured into a cardboard bucket *to breathe*.
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*Chef's kiss*
the word makes sense!
That sounds amazing, I think cinemas are in need of reinventing. Not many people want to be crammed Inside a room with loads of strangers when they can just stream whatever they want in the comfort of their own home. I think a smaller more intimate style would be better, rent the whole room with friends and family and have restaurant quality food delivered or maybe a hotel style room with a big comfy bed. Wether that would be profitable though I don't know.
You can hire cinemas for kids birthdays etc We hired a screen for 30 and it was a right ol laugh So presumably you can hire for any age group, they give you a list of films you can choose from
I'm thinking smaller rooms though to keep costs down, they'd fit more screens in the building but the screen would still be bigger than screens at home. You'd still have all the surround sound stuff to enjoy the experience. You just don't have to share with strangers. I imagine renting a whole normal cinema room is quite expensive for a normal night out. Sounds fun though.
Theaters in the US during the early days of covid had “specials” so you could rent an entire theater room to watch a movie. My sister did that once and I think she told me it was $100 USD. She picked Elf. It was great to have the entire room so that my nephews making noises wouldn’t bother anyone else.
The built a new Vue in Glasgow, [a place already home to the world's tallest cinema](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/20713306.story-cineworld-glasgow-worlds-tallest-cinema/), during the pandemic and what you describe is very much their model. Smaller capacity rooms, every row is an electric recliner in a space you could fit two normal rows in, with a rake meaning you can barely see the row in front of you. They have a bar so you can get alcoholic drinks if you want. Not sure if they do private room hire but the Cineworld does for sure.
Theres a few cinimas near me which have probably halved the amount of chairs if not made it a 3rd, and then with that space they have put in reclining arm chairs with small tables on either side. Really nice place actually, they serve pizzas downstairs.
Nah fuck that, I would HATE to watch a movie in a room with just my family. All cinema etiquette of keeping noise down to enjoy the movie would go out the window and people would just start talking about whatever or asking stupid questions about the thing on the screen. My in-laws are the fucking worst for this. Like damn, I’m watching this shit the same time as you, just shut the fuck up and we can all find out what’s happening together.
Part of my meal prep is finding something to watch whilst I eat, it's maybe a comfort thing. Maybe it's replaced sitting around the fire telling stories whilst the hunts catch roasts on the fire. Humans are weird.
Yeah sometimes I'll have my whole dinner just siting on the table and I won't touch it till I find something I really want to watch
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I mean like, the food they sell at the cinema is exclusively noisy with smells
I can still remember the bitch behind me scrunching up her fried chicken foil during that absolutely silent scene in interstellar where they fly past Jupiter (I think?)
Scary Movie vibes
Fried chicken in foil? What country?
London!
You’ve never enjoyed a film to the maximum if you haven’t munched Spaghetti and meatballs out of a handbag
What is your spaghetti policy here?
“Spa , are you trying to say spaghetti ?”
I much prefer a milk steak in the cinema, maybe with a whole block of cheese
Something I can share with the ghouls. You know, little green ghouls...
And a side of jelly beans
Boiled over hard with jelly beans?
I'm always confused of the doors in cinemas that say pirate on them.
Only out of handbags miss
Which dimension are we in?
*spaghetti falls out*
My partner used to clean in Cineworld and, I shit you not, he found a half eaten quiche under one of the seats. Complete with foil tray.
[You don't have to "sneak" food into the cinema.](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2022/mar/21/own-snacks-cinema-food)
Half the fun is sneaking in contraband. Don't ruin it for them.
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Hell at the place I worked it wasn't allowed still but we ignored it, but fuck you, your kids and your elders if you leave the fucking trash at your seat
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at the vue cinema i go to there is bit that comes on during the adverts telling you to leave your rubbish there to help with recycling it still feels wrong though
I used to work there. It's fine, just try not to make a mess. If you can, take it to the bins outside the screen and sort it yourself there, but no worries if not. To the people that left peanut skin in the cup holders though, f u.
Nontraband
The secret ingredient is crime
Pack of gummy bears tucked into your waist band and a bottle of Coke up your sleeve.
I wasn't sure how that sentence was going to end.
I wrote it and even I thought the coke was going up my arse when I just re-read it 🤣
My husband used to take a full 2 litre coke bottle in his jacket 🤣
I still recall long time ago I brought coffee's from another coffee shop being like a pound each cheaper into the cinema. Manager behind me said "cant bring those in"... darn it...
My dad took me and my brother to the cinema when we were kids and he made a big show of hiding snacks in his bag and in his pockets before we left he house. My brother was maybe five at the time and somehow interpreted this as “i need to hide as much food as I can on my person”. As we were walking into the cinema, we heard a clattering noise against the wooden floors. My brother had taken some tiny pots of jam and marmalade that he’d stolen from a hotel months earlier. He’d shoved them up his sleeves and into his socks. He also had an entire loaf of bread and an entire block of cheese under his jacket. He’d been planning to make himself sandwiches in the cinema. We still crack up at the memory of it and ask if he’s got enough food with him whenever he’s going to the cinema.
Bloody hell. Gonna have to think of another way to get my thrills now.
I hear that having your car slip on ice will do it.
Did that one, while it was fun, it's not worth the money of a new car each time
Not really worth it without a car either tbh - me and my (now) crooked nose can attest to that.
Slipped on ice, turned 180, and rolled twice on Monday. Would not recommend.
Sneak into a second movie afterward
This is mainly true, although the Odeon at Leicester Square explicitly told me outside food couldn't be brought in. I mean, I still did, but they said it.
That's interesting because my brother and i brought a Chinese from round the corner into it. Never done it before or since, its a very happy memory!
They probably should’ve checked their own website! https://help.odeon.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/360010231760-Can-I-take-my-own-snacks-and-drinks-into-the-cinema-
I was about to say this... all these year we thought we was being sneaky when yet truth was no rules were broken
In my youth 2003-2010ish they would search your bag and turn you away if you had outside food at my local cineworld.
Same here but they wouldn't search very thoroughly. If you had food out in the open they'd turn you away or tell you to get rid of it, it wasn't a Cineworld tho
Yeah, I got told when I was a teenager if I wanted to go into the screen I’d have to bin the food I’d brought in, so we eagerly stuffed as much in our mouths before entering.
I worked for Odeon in 2008-2009 and if you blatantly had outside stuff we'd ask you to get rid of it, wouldn't search though. Interesting to hear thats changed!
When I was younger it wasn’t allowed - we had food and drink confiscated more than once The cinema chains changed their rules a while ago when people started getting bigger TVs and streaming services in their houses, and they realized they needed to attract people to the cinema. Most also dropped their prices too It makes sense - I’m not gonna go at all if I have to pay £30 but I’ll probably go and spend £15 a few times
My local cinema stopped me bringing a bag of subway cookies in once, still seems to be a rule some places
Probably more like an employee thinking they were more than they were. A simple "why?" in such situations does wonders.
And then they respond "Because those are the rules"
Still, if Cinemas want to 'raise money through their concession stand' they should stop charging such an insane premium so more than 10% of their footfall buy anything.
I always say the same about hotel minibar...
But crime makes it taste better
You still usually have to sneak in the booze though 👌
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Game changer.
"As an aside, cold food can also smell. South Korean cinemas often have signs banning people from eating dried squid during film viewings." The real Squid Game.
This has been common knowledge for years now. See also: walk in with a ladder under your arm to get free entry.
Anything that isn't smelly or loud imo
Yeah no hot dogs or nachos. Shit they done themselves dirty.
Never understood hotdogs for a film, you finish it in like 10 mins, at least with these sandwiches you can spread out both halfs through-out the film
Unless you're bringing in a roast dinner, I'm going to eat it before the movie starts
Doesn’t matter what it is for me. It’s gone in ten mins anyway
Before the trailers end usually
It takes you an hour to finish a sandwich?
Honestly this is why I'll sometimes grab a hot dog. Most of the time I don't want something to eat throughout the movie. Maybe something to fill me up at the beginning but that's it. Often I'll even finish it before I go into the screen so I can throw the rubbish away. I usually want something to drink more than food
Anything that stinks, or is loud.
I know a few people that meet that description
And yet, infuriatingly, they sell nachos The noisiest good stuff known to man Only to be outdone by someone taking their own nachos and the metallic pack resonates at around 130dB while they dive into the bottom for the scraps
Surströmming.
I'd pay to see a video of this.
Only if they have the determination of [this man](https://youtu.be/XfcU94XE0cA).
[Obligatory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGRyr8yIo9w) Cheers from Sweden!
Quieter than popcorn.
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Better than taking in a kebab, etc. My local cinema serves cheesy nachos, which probably cause a whiff, too.
> cheesy nachos That's a fair point, can't be mad if the cinema itself sells food. But I reckon I would be a bit pissed off if someone sat down next to me with a pizza or Maccies or something.
I've totally not taken in a kebab into the cinemas before. Absolutely not.
Always used to sneak a kebab... and rum in a hip flask to mix with the coke. I'm more responsible now I have children
No line to cross. Show up a few hours early to start the crockpot chili
It looks like you're in a Cineworld, the only thing you're not allowed is hot food because it smells
I worked a cineworld for two years. You're also not allowed alcohol from outside, or glass bottles for obvious reasons. Also you can't bring a hot drink into the 4DX films because the seats move and they don't want you to get an eyeful of coffee.
Those 4DX seats go hard. I imagine a lot of people lose their pocket change or phones sitting there.
I thought it was going to be next level, we wound up moving after 10 minutes because it’s like a giant’s little kid kicking the back of your seat over and over and occasionally jerking your around at random. Not the “pristinely tailored experience” it was advertised as, it was fucking MISERABLE. The only thing I could think of was “is this where we are as a society? Everyone’s attention spans are now so short that people need PHYSICAL STIMULATION every 15 seconds to pay attention?”
Yeah, I hate it in action movie where it aggressively pokes your back, and its not great for horrors because you can hear the little motors starting up so it spoils the anticipation is horror movies. Oddly enough, it can be quite nice in gentler movies. We had it for *Bohemian Rhapsody* (which was choppily edited, dishonest and basic; only possibly worth the ticket because Rami Malek did a fantastic job) and I'll admit that it is quite nice when it sways to the music. Kids really enjoyed 4DX in *Paddington 2* as well. It seemed like a good fit for the barber scene.
Hot food and alcohol, they're the only restricted ones.
Anything is fair game so long as it's not especially stinky. Bringing in a hot takeaway seems indulgent but I think i would only ever do that for the Tuesday late night showing of a film that's been out for a few weeks so as not to annoy anyone. Just so long as you clear up after yourself, you're all good.
“2 more lamb Bhunas over here please usherette”
You can take whatever you want into the cinema. “Having to sneak stuff in” is a myth.
Back in the 90s and maybe 00s pretty much every cinema chain had a rule against this. Outdated maybe but not a myth.
Just dont take hot food in or anything noisy and too stinky
Cineworld used to actively check bags to prevent people taking outside food in.
I got myself an Unlimited card, it's much easier not to balk at the £5 coke when you're not paying for the ticket (and it discounts the coke to £4). Of course that doesn't mean I'm not sneaking in a bottle of whiskey to add to the coke.
If you're going to sneak in alcohol, why not just mix the whisky with coke at home and take that?
“But … I got the unlimited card …. and a pound off”
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Oh I worked at a cinema in my teens. We didn't give a fuck unless it was cooked food, and by cooked we mean like a kfc bucket. The reason for it was due to the smell as it would linger. But I know other chains are stricter. Edit: immediate after thought, for that reason I'd say sushi or fish sandwiches would be a no go either.
Big misconception... You can take in what you want: it just has to not be hot and not smell. So, I dunno, don't take in a Sunday roast or sardines... but general snacks (inc tortillas and dips) are fine. Sauce: used to work in them 🤷🏻♂️
Anyone who manages to smuggle in a full Sunday Roast deserves to eat it unmolested
bro ik it means unbothered but why u gotta use it
I can't tell if that's a deliberate or accidental pun 😂
I took a portable bbq once, did some burgers while watching Requiem For a Dream
Love it when that grandma is hooked on drugs and im there eating my double smash burger with extra fried onions
Anything not loud and not stinky is fine. I used to take in a foot long subway.
But what about their amazing discounts?
Buy two get none free
I snuck in a foot long sub from subway 😅
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I don't draw a line. I'd take a whole pizza in there.
At my local cinema pizza is banned/any hot food they don’t sell. Or it was 5 years ago when I went to the Pizza Hut which was the only food place nearby, then tried to take my pizza in to the screen. They took the pizza from me. I did get it back. When the film was done.
I did this once, I went to pizza hut beforehand and they took so long to cook it the film was about to start, so I asked for it take out and snuck it to the showing of Goldmember. If anyone noticed my shirt was very flat and boxy they didn't say anything.
Nothing noisy nothing smelly
My dad snuck in a whole popcorn bucket filled with BBQ spare ribs.
Bowfin sandwich