A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived | Stuart Heritage
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Many struggling cinemas depend on sales of pricey food and drink as ticket revenue mainly goes to film studios. But does banning outside supplies really add up, asks Stuart Heritage
    • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
      144·
      3 months ago

      Raw popcorn kernels are not digestible ‘food.’ Oil is not food. Salt is not food.

      Combine. Add heat. Et Voila! Someone complain, bring in bags of powdered chemicals, beakers, reagents, and bunsen burners, and go to work.

      It’s all in the technical margins.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        All 3 of those things are tax-exempt where I’m from, because they’re food

        Worth a try though

        • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
          34·
          3 months ago

          Tax-exemption opens up a whole other promising venue. Hibachi and a chartered accountant at the next movie night.

          This could work.

    • Unreliable@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      If I bring my own food and consume it indoors it is indoor food. If I ate it outside, it would be outside food. /s

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      If I had to guess the idea is the food comes to the theater in a truck, too, is that also “outside food”?

      Realistically though I think everyone knows you’re supposed to buy the food in the theater - everything else is people being cute