[vocatus_gate]

It always amazes me how people talk about theater snacks like they're mandatory or something. How about just......don't buy them?

[Slump]

Well to be fair, I think many people consider the snacks (soda, popcorn, candy) to be part of the movie going experience so it's hard to resist the urge to splurge. You're not wrong but there is a lot of years of marketing and persuasion behind "lets all go to the lobby..."

[hydrawlics]

How about just......make that policy about not permitting outside snacks go take a hike?

People are made to throw food and beverages in the trash, if they haven't been purchased at the theater's concession stands.

When the ushers take your tickets, they make you throw away anything that's obviously not sold in the theater, thus monopolizing local refreshments.

[roywiggins]

Just find a theater staffed exclusively by bored teenagers who don't enforce the policy :)

[vocatus_gate]

That's my strategy..

[jessaustin]

Lots of people just sneak in their own sodas. This is discouraged by authority, but it doesn't seem immoral. At least, it isn't more immoral than going without soda entirely, so long as one doesn't throw the empties on the floor.