Cinema food
29 April 2012, 11:59 AM
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Cinema food
It is horrible and expensive, as a rule, if we go and the kids want stuff the £40 cinema trip doubles in cost very easily so have taken to smuggling stuff in 
Popcorn, cant see the appeal, its like eating salted packing material, the bits get stick in your teeth and it stinks. Go to the cinema and people pay like 5 quid for a massive bucket of the ****e. It makes your mouth feel like you have been eating gravel, the husks make me cough. I can cope with the Butterkist stuff but that is where it is reduced to a role of carrying industrial strength caramel coating.
Hotdog, grim, nothing should be that uniform, you can taste them for days after, they really smell kind of funny as well.
Nachos. I love these but they are so variable, I had some the other day and they salsa/cheese came in little tubs rather than having been freshly boiling for 2 months, the cheese wasnt the normal processed, fairly innofensive slimy orange stuff but foetid stuff, not sure if it was off but it didnt get eaten, disgusting but get a good portion of Nachos, with chilis they can be quite nice.
The drinks, ranging from small (about a litre), medium (four litres) and large, (comes in a water butt), in America they have a supersize but nobody can carry it, how many children have drowned in a cinema drink ?
Pick and Mix, cheap sweets that have had many sets of fingers in, usually all clagged together and more expensive weight for weight than gold, marketing genius, let greedy hungry kids select their own sweets and get the parents to pay based on weight.
Surely someone can come up with a decent cinema food, Went to a "Movie Tavern" in the states and you could get a meal but the food was all Mini Burgers and stuff, they had a table in front of you, well a kind of breakfast bar arrangement, you could take a beer in and they would bring you one after a pre arranged time, fantastic concept but the food was garbage, probably best to wait and go for meal afterwards.
Popcorn, cant see the appeal, its like eating salted packing material, the bits get stick in your teeth and it stinks. Go to the cinema and people pay like 5 quid for a massive bucket of the ****e. It makes your mouth feel like you have been eating gravel, the husks make me cough. I can cope with the Butterkist stuff but that is where it is reduced to a role of carrying industrial strength caramel coating.
Hotdog, grim, nothing should be that uniform, you can taste them for days after, they really smell kind of funny as well.
Nachos. I love these but they are so variable, I had some the other day and they salsa/cheese came in little tubs rather than having been freshly boiling for 2 months, the cheese wasnt the normal processed, fairly innofensive slimy orange stuff but foetid stuff, not sure if it was off but it didnt get eaten, disgusting but get a good portion of Nachos, with chilis they can be quite nice.
The drinks, ranging from small (about a litre), medium (four litres) and large, (comes in a water butt), in America they have a supersize but nobody can carry it, how many children have drowned in a cinema drink ?
Pick and Mix, cheap sweets that have had many sets of fingers in, usually all clagged together and more expensive weight for weight than gold, marketing genius, let greedy hungry kids select their own sweets and get the parents to pay based on weight.
Surely someone can come up with a decent cinema food, Went to a "Movie Tavern" in the states and you could get a meal but the food was all Mini Burgers and stuff, they had a table in front of you, well a kind of breakfast bar arrangement, you could take a beer in and they would bring you one after a pre arranged time, fantastic concept but the food was garbage, probably best to wait and go for meal afterwards.
29 April 2012, 12:14 PM
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The 1980's just called, they want you back now Kim
Saying that off the the cinema tomorrow night and it was £15 per ticket.
No doubt another £10 will be spent on nacho's and a drink but that's all part of going
Saying that off the the cinema tomorrow night and it was £15 per ticket.
No doubt another £10 will be spent on nacho's and a drink but that's all part of going
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29 April 2012, 12:17 PM
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Not been to the cinema in years. I always used to end up sitting next to someone, who guzzled loads of bags of crisps and stunk to the heavens
Much prefer a glass of wine, comfy sofa and a DVD.
Much prefer a glass of wine, comfy sofa and a DVD.
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29 April 2012, 12:32 PM
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Stuff the cinema!!! I'd rather park my **** on the toilet and letting rip while browsing the net like I'm doing now
J4cko, there was a show on channel 4 a while back about re-inventing cinema food. It was with that Heson Blooming what ever his name is. It was quite good. Inside out hot dogs
I'm sure you can still see it on 4od?
J4cko, there was a show on channel 4 a while back about re-inventing cinema food. It was with that Heson Blooming what ever his name is. It was quite good. Inside out hot dogs
I'm sure you can still see it on 4od?
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Popcorn maker + blu-ray + HDTV here... haven't been to the cinema in ages.
Seriously: movie rental (£2), snacks (50p?) and a pint of home-brewed ale, vs driving out to a cinema, paying silly money for parking, tickets and food, then having to sit through an hour of ads and trailers before the film actually starts. There's just no contest.
Seriously: movie rental (£2), snacks (50p?) and a pint of home-brewed ale, vs driving out to a cinema, paying silly money for parking, tickets and food, then having to sit through an hour of ads and trailers before the film actually starts. There's just no contest.
29 April 2012, 04:16 PM
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Cinema food is rotten. Popcorn is ok but everything else, no need. If I wanted hot food, Id go for grub first then the cinema.
The nacho dips (not flavours, just colours really) really make me queasy just looking at them in their open pot state. I wouldnt be surprised if they just tip more into it every day rather than start from a clean pot.
The nacho dips (not flavours, just colours really) really make me queasy just looking at them in their open pot state. I wouldnt be surprised if they just tip more into it every day rather than start from a clean pot.
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29 April 2012, 04:50 PM
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Popcorn maker + blu-ray + HDTV here... haven't been to the cinema in ages.
Seriously: movie rental (£2), snacks (50p?) and a pint of home-brewed ale, vs driving out to a cinema, paying silly money for parking, tickets and food, then having to sit through an hour of ads and trailers before the film actually starts. There's just no contest.
Seriously: movie rental (£2), snacks (50p?) and a pint of home-brewed ale, vs driving out to a cinema, paying silly money for parking, tickets and food, then having to sit through an hour of ads and trailers before the film actually starts. There's just no contest.
I have been to the cinema once in the last three years, and I am in no rush to get back.
I don't eat the food anyway, as I tend not to eat things of I can't see/read what has been put in them.
The thing I hate more is the people who are there. Noisy, rude and generally unpleasant to be around.
I sat next whims some people when we watched 21 jump street who seemed to spend more time on facebook and tittering and laughing with each other. At home I can get snacks, beer and go for a pee without any trouble or feeling as though I have been robbed.
Much easier and cheaper to stay at home, which might explain why the place was half empty on a Sat night.
Rewind 8 years and people used to be cueing out of the doors. Now all you have to worry about is weather you should pick the front or the back row for yourself.
29 April 2012, 05:26 PM
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Cinema food is rotten. Popcorn is ok but everything else, no need. If I wanted hot food, Id go for grub first then the cinema.
The nacho dips (not flavours, just colours really) really make me queasy just looking at them in their open pot state. I wouldnt be surprised if they just tip more into it every day rather than start from a clean pot.
The nacho dips (not flavours, just colours really) really make me queasy just looking at them in their open pot state. I wouldnt be surprised if they just tip more into it every day rather than start from a clean pot.
29 April 2012, 05:44 PM
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Am I the only one who wonders why, in an auditorium where noise is frowned upon, they serve the king of noisy foods, the nacho? I just don't get it.
29 April 2012, 06:12 PM
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Not really love with the cinema food here, but I quite like Ben & Jerry icecream or sweet n' salted mixed popcorns to go with the film watching.
I do love cinema, though. I like the experience of mega screen and magnified sound in the theatre. No home cinema can beat that. We happened to watch Salmon Fishing in the Yemen yesterday night in the Odeon. We had been for a meal in a restaurant before stumbling over the film, so we didn't need any oral gratification to go with the visual stimulation. I really enjoyed the film. Turbohot Junior (my daughter) liked it, too.
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29 April 2012, 06:14 PM
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29 April 2012, 06:38 PM
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Average movies I d/l, good movies we go on a Wednesday afternoon (Orange, so £5.50 for both of us), and for the big epics we may venture to Imax if they're on there so £20 or so. Have been sneaking our own popcorn in for years, I refuse to pay £5 when the same crap can be had for 99p. Usually have a small bottle of water in my pocket too to last me until we go for a coffee/pint on the way home. In truth, I think I prefer watching at home more these days, with as much food, drink and whatever, viewing on a reasonable sized plasma with 7.1 surround. Sofa turned straight in front, both in our slobs and no chavs to ruin the night.