Broken Resolution – Coming To A Cinema Near You
January 6th 2007 13:00
As much as I would have loved to have been announcing that I’ve broken my New Year’s resolution that I’m giving up the drink or even cutting back sex on Sundays, I’m afraid that my attempt to remove a vice from my life each January is simply not that exciting. But at do have a broken resolution to report…
It may have been the lure of the bright lights of the Candy Bar or even the freckled smile desperately trying to break through the freshly laid braces but my resolution to lay off the chocolate this year was unceremoniously shattered with a rather expensive purchase of a triple choc ice cream ‘treat’ during a visit to the movies yesterday.
I’m not so worried about the failure to keep yet another resolution for longer than a week, nor the fact that the 3 individual varieties of chocolate making up my ‘treat’ all tasted the same, what left me with a bitter taste in my mouth was the exorbitant premium I had to pay because I purchased it a mere 5 metres within the cinema complex as opposed to any one of nearly a dozen food outlets within the same shopping centre.
I have never quite understood why buying any food or drink item at the cinemas is so expensive. It’s wrapped the same, smells the same and if you’re lucky, even tastes the same, yet for some ungodly reason, namely greed, you end up paying nearly twice as much for the privilege of eating crap in pitch-black darkness. Depending on the crispiness of the crap you are consuming, you also have the threat of an all out ‘Sssh!’ attack precariously hanging over your head.
But there is a solution at hand. BYO and not necessarily of the alcoholic variety either. They have Gold Class for that these days. I’m referring to food; hot, greasy, delicious, junk food which due to it having taste would not be found at the Candy Bar. If you’ve had the pleasure of devouring a hot steaming pizza at the movies, you‘ll know what I’m on about. Meat pies and burgers aren’t bad either although they can be quite messy in the darkness. If you can hide the food in a bag of some sort then the possibilities are endless.
But a word of warning….
Be discreet and dine carefully. Do not get caught under any circumstances as the last thing we need is for the cinema proprietors to get any ideas. Because before you can say ‘popcorn’, they’ll be serving us with their excuse for hot food for which you’ll need a second mortgage at the very least to afford!
It may have been the lure of the bright lights of the Candy Bar or even the freckled smile desperately trying to break through the freshly laid braces but my resolution to lay off the chocolate this year was unceremoniously shattered with a rather expensive purchase of a triple choc ice cream ‘treat’ during a visit to the movies yesterday.
I’m not so worried about the failure to keep yet another resolution for longer than a week, nor the fact that the 3 individual varieties of chocolate making up my ‘treat’ all tasted the same, what left me with a bitter taste in my mouth was the exorbitant premium I had to pay because I purchased it a mere 5 metres within the cinema complex as opposed to any one of nearly a dozen food outlets within the same shopping centre.
I have never quite understood why buying any food or drink item at the cinemas is so expensive. It’s wrapped the same, smells the same and if you’re lucky, even tastes the same, yet for some ungodly reason, namely greed, you end up paying nearly twice as much for the privilege of eating crap in pitch-black darkness. Depending on the crispiness of the crap you are consuming, you also have the threat of an all out ‘Sssh!’ attack precariously hanging over your head.
But there is a solution at hand. BYO and not necessarily of the alcoholic variety either. They have Gold Class for that these days. I’m referring to food; hot, greasy, delicious, junk food which due to it having taste would not be found at the Candy Bar. If you’ve had the pleasure of devouring a hot steaming pizza at the movies, you‘ll know what I’m on about. Meat pies and burgers aren’t bad either although they can be quite messy in the darkness. If you can hide the food in a bag of some sort then the possibilities are endless.
But a word of warning….
Be discreet and dine carefully. Do not get caught under any circumstances as the last thing we need is for the cinema proprietors to get any ideas. Because before you can say ‘popcorn’, they’ll be serving us with their excuse for hot food for which you’ll need a second mortgage at the very least to afford!
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