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prettycool
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
When I worked in a movie theater, the noxious smell of popcorn made me throw up at least three times.

I only eat kettle corn, now.
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Agent355
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
My cronies and I once smuggled two boxes of delicious pastries into the movies. Messy but oh so much better. Seriously, $2 for a creamy, flaky neapolitan or $4 for a bag of Reeses Pieces?
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jelodi
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
Oh please. Once I took a foot-long hoagie w/extra pickles, mustard, and onions into the movies and proceeded to chow down on that puppy for the first 20 minutes. I also proceeded to stink up three rows with my sandwich.
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Elaken
11/19/09

@jelodi: Well that must have sucked for absolutely everyone sitting near you.
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jelodi
11/19/09

@Elaken: Probably. To think I affected the first 20 minutes of Sleepless in Seattle for 12 or random strangers. . .

I kept waiting for someone to kick me out, but alas, no one did.
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Elaken
11/19/09

@jelodi: I usually can't stand people eating smelly food around me because all I can think is...I want that. I think you are luckier no one mugged your for that sandwich because it sounds like it was good.
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downwithdebbie
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
Also, I imagine they didn't fator in those of us who enjoy bringing the bar to the cinema with a flask full of deliciously high-caloric alcohol.
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prestocaro fears the culling
11/19/09

@downwithdebbie: I will forever associate vanilla vodka cokes with Paranormal Activity.
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downwithdebbie
11/19/09

@prestocaro fears the culling: Hah! Four Christmases (from last year) for me. I had no idea John Voight was even in it until weeks later when talking about how dreadful it was.

#tips
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Leucadia
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
So, question for all those who work/worked in theatres: Really, is it illegal to sneak food in? Do we really have to feel all 007 about bringing the big purse full of snacks? Did management ever require you to do anything about people who brought their own food?

(I'm thinking of the Seinfeld where the diner manager forbids "outside condiments.")
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colormeroutine
11/19/09

@Leucadia: I actually watched a man fight with a manger in the seat in front of me at the movies last Friday. They told him he had to throw out his milkshake, he called them fascists, his date looked like she wanted to sink into the floor, it was kind of hilarious. In the end they kicked him out and refunded his ticket money
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Leucadia
11/19/09

@colormeroutine: LOL "fascists!"
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highjump
11/19/09

@Leucadia: I worked at a movie theater for 3 years. It happened to be next to a Burger King which the management would get upset about, but people bringing in outside candy or their own bottled water never bothered them. This was a family owned place, so the lack of a corporate culture might have something to do with the 'whatever' attitude. We also had the best damn popcorn ever (coconut oil) so we always made money.

Strangest food item I ever found while cleaning a theater- corn cob. Why the fuck would you bring corn on the cob to a movie?!
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Penny
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
Confession. Sometimes my dad and I have movie dates, skip dinner and share a large tub of popcorn (with a refill).

I love it.
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FireflyinJuly
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
I worked at a movie theatre during college. Calorie counts aside, the butter topping comes in a disgusting tub and congeals at the top before opening. Oh, and you don't want to know the health code violations at a typical movie theatre concession stand. Just say no!
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Elaken
11/19/09

@FireflyinJuly: I worked at a movie theatre too, and I agree about the violations. However I know people who have worked at other food type establishments and they all have said the same thing.
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samarkand
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
I hate the food they sell at theaters. The popcorn is okay while you're eating it, but it leaves this slimy film in your mouth after. I'm not that big of a fan of sodas, and especially not mass-produced ones (I favor Boylan's Cane Cola). So I always smuggle food in. Sorry, cinemas, I know you make a lot of money from your food, but you don't sell anything I actually want to eat, so I wouldn't be buying anything anyway.

Two of my local theaters are each right around the corner from different outlets of a local high-end sub chain. I love watching a matinee and having a lovely mediterranean sub with fries for lunch.
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alouette
11/19/09

@samarkand: There's a theater in my hometown that sells hot apple cider, hot cocoa, air popped popcorn, etc. AND tickets are $5. I miss it terribly
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jigglyball
11/19/09

@samarkand: Confession- I don't like popcorn. I bring beers in my purse and call it dinner.
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Elaken
11/19/09

@samarkand: I worked at a movie theatre for a long time, and it was a horrendous place to work. But to be fair, they don't just make a lot of their money from the food they make almost all their money from the food.

That ticket money doesn't go to them, unless the movie has been out for weeks - at which point it is about to no longer be shown. So unless people really want to start paying even more for tickets so the theatre can get a cut, I think it is wrong to sneak food in. Same way if you go to a bar and bring in all your own liquor. It just isn't right.
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PhDelish
11/19/09

@jigglyball: I am pro this idea.

Heart!

It also occurs to me that recently I have been hearting people largely on vice-related approval (drinking, smoking, &c.). Oh well...
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jigglyball
11/19/09

@PhDelish: Works for me! Hearted right back. If you tell me you eat babies and smoke kittens, then I'll have to triple heart you.
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Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
11/19/09

@samarkand: There's at least a few theaters in my home town that sell craft beer, Italian soda, and fancy coffee drinks. The first time I went to one of them after I turned 21 I was really psyched to drink a pretentious beer and watch a pretentious movie, but alas it was a Sunday and state law forbade the sale of alcohol at that establishment on that day.
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cantankasaurus rex
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
ok, slight OT, but the green popcorn gave me a flashback to childhood! does anyone else remember the popcorn (pop secret?) were it was a mystery what colour it was until you popped it? i remember gorging my pre-teen self on bright pink and purple popcorn and loving life!
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11/19/09

@cantankasaurus rex: POP QWIZ!
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beatrice2000
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
When I was a movie usher, I hated seeing all the half-eaten nachos all over the place, with its artificial cheese and hated the smell.

I went from ating regular size popcorn at the movies to small sizes to not eating it at all anymore. I also like eating Milk Duds and Raisinets at the movies, but hate to think that I'm eating a whole meal's worth of calories/fat in two candy boxes. So I just stick to water, Nips candies, and Junior Mints.

I especially loved putting Raisinets mixed with popcorn, salty sweet goodness.
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Elaken
11/19/09

@beatrice2000: The nachos are pretty gross. I was the opposite on popcorn though. I never ate it, but with the constant smell around me I actually grew to like it and would munch on it while working. Of course that could also be because other than soda, it was the only thing we got for free.
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cinematheques
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
I've had plenty of friends who used to work in movie theaters in high school. They knew it was their duty to tell me to avoid the food.

For one thing, the popcorn at the bottom of the machine can stay there for days, having new popped corn pile on top, before it is scooped up. And the meat in the hot dogs are continuously frozen, heated up, frozen again, and heated up again. Which is extremely unhealthy for meat.

These examples are barely scraping the surface. Movie food is beyond detrimental to your body.
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Elaken
11/19/09

@cinematheques: I am really surprised by this. As with any food place there are violations, but I worked at a movie theatre for three years. The owner was damn cheap too and we NEVER would leave popcorn from the night before (especially since the entire machine had to be cleaned out pretty thoroughly). It all got dumped. Leaving it doesn't even make sense since it is pretty cheap. At the most, if we were going to be absolutely slammed, I think on the rare occasion we would pop extra and put it into bags.

Any hotdogs at the end of the night were also dumped and written off as damages. Of course I could tell stories of us being so busy the ice machines could barely keep up and finding a roach in one and not being able to dump out all the ice and start fresh until the rush was over, and mold in the yogurt machine, and so on. But as I said in another post, everyone I know who has worked with food has similar stories.
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cinematheques
11/19/09

@Elaken: I've heard pretty intense stories from the food industry. Once I found out that a frequented restaurant of mine was filled with sewage about twice a year because of bad plumbing (it being on a lake), I kind of gag when I think of its shrimp tubular tacos...
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Elaken
11/19/09

@cinematheques: I like to tell myself it just helps boost my immune system by giving me so much exposure!

#tips
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KLondike5
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
Grrr. This irritates me just like the occasional things about how coffee is really fattening and then go on to note much later that it's only true when you drink it in frappuccino form.

Popcorn is a low calorie, high fiber, whole grain. The shit you put on popcorn, or cook popcorn in, might not be healthy, depending on what it is.

Just like drinking calorie-free coffee with a bucket of ice cream on top makes it a high calorie indlugence.

I have an air popper and put about two tablespoons of real butter and a teaspoon of salt on a giant mixing bowl's worth of popcorn. It's my kids' favorite snack, and it is healthy.

So piss off, writers of misleading, pseudo-nutritionist bullshit.
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samarkand
11/19/09

@KLondike5: I <3 my airpopper. I put about 1 tbl of butter on, with a few pinches of salt and a generous dusting of nutritional yeast (makes it taste like cheese popcorn). Delicious.

And there's a reason movie popcorn leaves your mouth with that weird coated feeling. It's the palm oil or whatever the hell they put on it.
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alouette
11/19/09

@samarkand: Okay, I am glad you use yeast. My art teacher used to during classes, but NOBODY else ever seems to have heard of it! Thank you for disproving their convictions that I am crazy.
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femme-bot
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
Next their going to tell me bringing a water bottle of booze into a movie is "unhealthy". Pish posh!
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girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus
11/19/09

@femme-bot: You've got to get those little test-tube thingies full of candy-flavored liquor. Chuck a couple of those in your purse and pour 'em into your soda once the lights go down (my personal favorite recipe is two tubes of Mango in one half-full bottle of Sprite Zero). Tasty and stout.
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femme-bot
11/19/09

@girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus: Uggh, that sounds sick making. I prefer a LOT of rum to dump in a big soda. Mmmm! Health drink!
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the glamwich
11/19/09

@femme-bot: i'm just letting you know that shiraz now comes in purse sized juice boxes.

i'm not saying that that's the only reason i sat through 2012...but i'm just saying...
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femme-bot
11/19/09

@the glamwich: Hah. I got though "Sex and the City" with a biiiig water bottle of vodka. It was the only way I could convince my man-friend to come with me.
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jemandtheholograms
11/19/09

@femme-bot: I told my mom I wouldn't see it with her unless we smuggled in booze. I had to concede on it being a cosmo, but since my mother's version is about 10 times stronger and 100 times less sweet than any cosmo on the planet, it was still as win.
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ErinLovesYou
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
I've heard that Junior Mints are actually healthier than movie popcorn.

True? Or false? Either way, movie food is delicious.
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LaComtesse
11/19/09

@ErinLovesYou: Def. true. Jr. Mints have little to no fat in them.
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girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus
11/19/09

@ErinLovesYou: So true! Junior Mints are one of the healthiest candies around, fat-and-calorie wise. Even better than Raisinets or Three Musketeers. And zero cholesterol. Plus a serving is SEVENTEEN Mints, which is awesome, and a lot.

(I'm the world's biggest Junior Mint fan. I keep a jumbo box by my bed at all times. Seventeen (or an approximate handful) per day keep me from craving other, less harmless chocolaty treats, which has really improved my life, believe it or not. They're the best!)
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Elaken
11/19/09

@girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus: I rarely have it but I am a big Junior Mint fan. Probably because it is so minty I never in my life could eat 17 in one sitting. I love candies that pretty much require me to have portion control because they have such a strong taste.
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Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred)
11/19/09

In reply to Pop Secret
If God wanted cinemas to be healthy places he would have put bloody treadmills in them.

As it is, I'll enjoy my popcorn and large extra cheesy nachos in PEACE, thank you very much!
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