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A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is standard policy in New Zealand for cinemas to ban food brought in from outside and the Herald reported that Cinema 3 has five signs posted around the premises stating this.

“The exact wording is: ‘No outside food or drinks allowed’,” the cinema’s operations manager, Robert Greig, said, the paper reported.

Thus, once again, one of the oldest arguments in the world has been pushed back into the limelight: should you be allowed to take your own snacks into the cinema?

private businesses can do what they want. But the prices they charge for food is outrageous. So i just dont go to those places. For the cost of a few movies and snacks now, you could buy your own large screen TV and surround system that will annoy your neighbors if thats what you need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Should private businesses really be allowed to dictate to us what and when we can eat or drink? If you consider that human right, I'm not sure they should.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Access to food and clean water are human rights, not limitless consumption of either wherever you are.

So you either smuggle it in and don't get caught (my go-to was always a bag of chips stuffed into the sleeve of my jacket, and then sling that over my shoulder), or avoid the place altogether.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They can't stop you from eating or drinking what you want, but they can't be forced to allow you to bring it into their business.

However, if their business isn't sustainable without egregiously-priced food, perhaps it should be allowed to fail. And if they all start to fail, perhaps the studios would start to lose money, and maybe they would eventually understand that it's due to their own greed. But we all know the blame would get passed on to the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

No one is forcing you to interact with those businesses...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Water? No. Everything else on their property? Of course. It's theirs, not ANY flavor of "ours"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Should private businesses really be allowed to dictate to us what and when we can eat or drink?

Don't they always do that with, ya know, menus?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is like Freemen of the Land/Sovereign Citizen shit about movie theater snacks lmao