Popcorn?

[Jachut 487]

Speaking of popcorn, is it the same in America when you buy popcorn at the movies? Like you want to buy a small popcorn for your kids and they charge what seems like $15 for it, then they say, but it will be cheaper if you get the superduper large AND a bucket of coke AND a choctop icecream, all for $12.95, but no we wont give you a few containers so your kids can share it, you have to buy the super movie deal for all 3 of them, so before you know it, you've spent $50 at the snackbar, and have to carry 5 kilograms of popcorn, 3 buckets of coke and 3 ice creams that you didnt want, all to avoid paying $15 for one small popcorn?

That really DRIVES ME ISANE!!! And no wonder all our kids are becoming obese.

Sorry for the rant, lol, but I just wondered if this was a peculiar Australian custom or whether they do it the world over. I buy stuff in the supermarket and take it in now, they recently made a rule that you couldnt do that and had to change it back again because people stopped buying alltogether.

[*susan* 1,709]

Jacqui, that is pretty much the same here in the US. It costs more to feed the family than the actual cost of the movie too. And we usually end up wasting a bunch of that food that was such a bargain.

[gonnabethin 10]

There is a small town theatre in Childress, tx. They havepopcorn and a coke are 3.00!!! they have movie deals so that getting in the movie and the snack bar is less than $7!!! Such fun to visit the small towns. they are even first run movies and in the long ones they stopped the movie for 15 min allowed BRB and free refills!!