It’s official – you are allowed to take your own food and drinks into most cinema chains. But whether you should or not is a trickier question

For years, smuggling food and drink into cinemas has felt like a crime, but no more. Our wildest dreams have come true, and it has finally been confirmed that, yes, you can officially bring your own snacks to watch films in public places.

It was actually back in 2019 that a Twitter user, @halilmemz, asked Cineworld, Odeon and Vue: “Am I allowed to bring my own food and drinks into the screen?” For some reason their answer – a unanimous yes – recently resurfaced online and has, once and for all, dismantled the long-held notion that audiences are only allowed to eat food bought in the cinema foyer. Does this revelation change cinema etiquette? Well, yes and no.

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