[Trader]

In Australia we have popcorn, different types of lollies, potato chips, choc bombs [ice cream in a cone dipped in chocolate then frozen], also soft drinks. We have 18plus cinemas [not xxx cinemas] but cinemas that serve alcohol and a meal.

[Hammerite]

In our cinemas we have pick 'n mix areas! and you can also get popcorn and buckets of m&ms and things.
I would recommend, if you ever go to an XXX cinema, NOT to buy ice cream.

[lumi]

There's popcorn, hot dogs, giant pretzels, nachos, candy, and soda. Popcorn and soda is the only stuff worth getting. And I don't care that you get butter flavoring, not butter. It still tastes great.

[Trader]

Originally Posted by lumi

There's popcorn, hot dogs, giant pretzels, nachos, candy, and soda. Popcorn and soda is the only stuff worth getting. And I don't care that you get butter flavoring, not butter. It still tastes great.

oh man you guys in America get all the yummy stuff, I wish we had nachos, my friends and I [when I was younger] use to sneak Maccers into the cinemas.

[Jazhara7]

Nachos with cheese, Soft Drinks, Water, Popcorn (Sweet, or Salty. No butter flavour, thank the gods. And in our local cinemas we got the option to get Salty popcorn only recenlty, I think since the summer last year.), Chips, and Ice cream (though I've never actually met anyone who eats ice cream in the cinema.).

Oh, and when they showed "Shrek the Third", they dyed the popcorn green with food colouring. That stuff tasted extremely yucky.




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[Kolzig]

Popcorn, Soft Drinks and some candy.

Everything is insanely expensive and also the popcorn is mostly too salty and also not fresh. That's why I usually just go to some local market and buy candy from there if I have to.

And that's just local cinemas here in Vaasa, for example in Helsinki all the stuff is much better.

[Squinky]

I like to sneak food into the theatres too, because the stuff they sell therein is far too overpriced.

That said, last Friday, I did purchase a frozen yogurt at the movies.

[Panthera]

sneek food in? As far as I know, they don't have a rule against bringing your own here.
Mostly they sell Popcorn (salt and yellow coloured, so I think it's some kind of butter they use), soda (both in bottle and from mashine), bacon crisps (exp?) and candy. You can either pick a variation, or buy ordinary candy that they sell in kiosks (chocolate and such).

I actually like the popcorn they sell at the cinema, I buy a combo (popcorn and soda) every time.

I would have loved to have Nachos with cheese though!

Oh, and one of the cinemas has a little cafe and sells alcohol.

[Hammerite]

I think they LET you bring food, but it is FROWNED UPON

[Jazhara7]

Oh, I forgot, they also sell candy in our cinema. But only pre-packacked, Haribo stuff. And the special, cinema-typical sour Apple rings (also a kind of Haribo stuff, which for quite some time seem to have been exclusive to cinemas. But for a while now, they've been available in shops too. They're still have the fact that they're known from the cinema in their title, though. They're as typical for cinema as tomato juice is for plane flights, I guess. Except that people really like eating the apple rings even when they're not in the cinema.).

The stuff available in the cinemas in our town is at an okay price. The tickets are also quite low priced, even lower if you are a kid/have a student pass/university pass/disabled pass. The cinemas in Frankfurt, or any of the large chains of cinemas, are quite expensive, though.

I'd never sneak in food into the cinemas in my town, as A) I know the people in both of them by name (and one of them I know even better, since his family are friends of my father and my family), and B) They really do their best, offer a lot of service, are friendly, and still keep the prices acceptable. I know that every cent is needed to keep the cinemas running, and I won't steal from them in any way.

Also, it's an unwritten law that you're not allowed to bring your own food to cinemas in Germany (exceptions are possible, of course, for special cases like a kid with lots of allergies I once met when the Special Olympics were hosted by my school. The special olympics are for disabled kids, and that kid was only allowed to eat certain foods, so he had to bring his own food everywhere. I can imagine cinemas would have to make an exception for such a case.). You can basically bring some, and it is possible to get it inside (it would be very easy for me, example, since I usually have a bag with me, and they don't search your bag or anything. But like I said, it would be pointless since the prices are not much different from the shops in town.) with it too, but if the cinema people see you bringing food, they are basically allowed to take it from you or refuse you entrance.

But I really know nobody who would bring their own food to the cinemas in my town. I know that my sister's boyfriend used to smuggle hamburgers into the shows at a large cinema in his town, because the prices were horrendous there too.



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[Squinky]

Here in Canadia, they actually won't let you bring food in. I believe it's the same in the States.

[Giligan]

I can't imagine anything more embarassing than getting caught sneaking food into a theater.

Well, that may be hyperbole, but it'd still be pretty embarassing.

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Crap. I don't eat anything in the cinema. I miss popcorn, but that's all.

[Kolzig]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

Oh, I forgot, they also sell candy in our cinema. But only pre-packacked, Haribo stuff. And the special, cinema-typical sour Apple rings (also a kind of Haribo stuff, which for quite some time seem to have been exclusive to cinemas. But for a while now, they've been available in shops too. They're still have the fact that they're known from the cinema in their title, though. They're as typical for cinema as tomato juice is for plane flights, I guess. Except that people really like eating the apple rings even when they're not in the cinema.).

Those sound exactly like green Apple rings they sell at Lidl.

Not bad though, but I think that I couldn't eat much of those as they are very sour.

[lumi]

Originally Posted by Kolzig

Those sound exactly like green Apple rings they sell at Lidl.

Not bad though, but I think that I couldn't eat much of those as they are very sour.

These things? They're not that sour in my opinion, not sour enough to not eat a whole bag. The peach rings are superior, though.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Kolzig

Those sound exactly like green Apple rings they sell at Lidl.

Not bad though, but I think that I couldn't eat much of those as they are very sour.

Yeah, that's the ones. I told you they do now sell them in shops. But here they usually put something like "as known from the cinema".

I really like them, especially if they're very sour. In German we say "Sauer macht lustig" - "Sour makes funny/makes a good mood".

Originally Posted by lumi

These things? They're not that sour in my opinion, not sour enough to not eat a whole bag. The peach rings are superior, though.

Eh, I've tried the peach rings. They're not bad, but I much prefer the apple rings.

I can easily eat a whole bag, no matter how sour they are. I've found that depending on many factors, they are more sour, or less sour. For example, depending on how old they are, the taste varies (I can't recall which one was more sour, right now) - Sometimes you have to let them age, just like wine. Also, soft apple rings are less sour than harder ones, often.

And different shops often have different manufacturers. Some of them make them more sour, some of them make them quite sweet. You have to know which ones are the right ones.


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[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Giligan

I can't imagine anything more embarassing than getting caught sneaking food into a theater.

Well, that may be hyperbole, but it'd still be pretty embarassing.

I forgot to mention that my sister's boyfriend also used to sneak into the actual cinema. There was an arcade area in the cinema, to which you were allowed to go without a ticket. So he and his friends would go there, then wait until the ticket controllers would leave (they'd often leave already when the adverts just started), then sneak into one of the show rooms.

It was a large cinema, one of those big chain ones, so he didn't have a bad conscience from that. He would never do that with a small cinema like in our town (and it would be entirely harder here too, because one cinema has only one room, the other one two, and both entrances are easily visible from everywhere.)



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[bulldog]

We have popcorn, hot dogs, giant pretzels, nachos, Coke, frozen cokes, kid packs, sausage dogs and giant pickles...... and just about any kid of candy you want, like snow caps, suckers, chocolate candy bars, M&M plain and Peanut, nerds, twizzlers.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

I forgot to mention that my sister's boyfriend also used to sneak into the actual cinema.

What my family does is buy a ticket for one movie, then sneak into another movie after the first one is finished. Also only possible in a large theatre, and only when you're alone or in a small group.

[stepurhan]

Not that we are condoning such behaviour or suggesting people should do it of course.