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May 31
2011
07:22 PM ET
Moviegoer etiquette: What food is acceptable to smuggle into a theater?
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All the “doctors” that accompany every movie I attend these days distract me with their fields of flashing cell phones lights, from their urgent life or death whispers, and texts. The contraband food doesn’t bother me. I guess nothing too disgusting has been smuggled in near me yet. I guess anything from the seafood family would be a big movie no-no.
I made the huge mistake of bringing a bag of Hot Fries into see Atonement. I tried my absolute hardness not to crunch those damn things and just to let them dissolve in my mouth. I will never again make that mistake.
food doesn’t nother me, Loud chilcern/babies and people on their phone bother me. I told a baby to STFU when watching a mive before. DON’T BRING YOUR LOUSY KIDS TO THE THEATER IF THEY CAN”T FU*KING BEHAVE!
I think there’s 2 trains of thought on this topic: on the one hand, I agree that anything that doesn’t fit in your pocket has no business being in a movie theater. However, on the other hand, if theaters are going to charge me $7.00 for a tub of popcorn and $6.00 for a large soda…then I think people have the right to bring in whatever they want to avoid getting ripped off (after all, they probably already spend over $15.00 on that premium 3D ticket). I think you’re OK as long as the food you bring in doesn’t have an obnoxious smell (I had someone next to me pull out a platter of chicken wings and hot sauce, and the smell was burning my nose).
When I lived in Florida (and ran 5x/week), I occasionally smuggled entire Chick-fil-A meals into the theater. These days in DC, though, it’s just a big bottle of water.
Worst ever were the folks in front of us that pulled out chinese food – I smelled horrible! What’s sadder still is the movie sucked.
I work at a theater. Having people smuggle in food is no big deal for me, as long as it’s well-hidden and small items aren’t a problem. But I put my foot down on people who smuggle in entire meals — seriously, Wingstop? KFC? Chik-Fil-A? That stuff stinks. Worse of all, the people who snuck in these meals don’t bother to throw away their trash afterwards. Seriously, it takes a couple of seconds to make your way to the trash can, throw it out and leave. I never understood that — even when I snuck in food items when I went to see a movie, I always threw it away.
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I love a big plate of sizzling fajitas brought out to me during a movie. Nothing is better than the smell and sizzle of hot oil on meat while watching specific scenes of saw. I think i made a family of 5 run out of the theater to go grab some tasty fajitas!.
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