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I remember a few years back there was some big hoo-harr about whether you were 'allowed' to take your own food and drink into cinemas - rather than paying their horrendously extortionate prices.

I thought cinemas bugrudgingly admitted that it was fine to take your own food in - and I've certainly done that many times since.

Last Thursday I went to the new cinema that's opened in Redditch town centre. £6.50 per ticket already makes it more expensive than other local ones, but then I was told I couldn't take my own food or drink in!!!

Being the quiet, calm type, I immediately questioned Desk Rat Boy as to whether this was even legal - but when he started squirming and looking so uncomfortable he might have a stroke, I decided to let it drop.

A cup of warm Coke there costs around £3, as oppsed to the 50p it would cost from the Wilkinsons shop next door.

Is this justifiable in any way???

Should I just walk in with 3 Tesco's carriers full of munchies, and if I did, would they have any rights to stop me?

carry it in in a rucksack. They aren't exactly going to search you are they.

and in the dark, they aren't going to know what you are eating.

havent been able to do it round here for years now. Dosent bother me to much as normaly when i got cinima i go with a bird and you dont want to 'impress' her by wipping out your 14p tesco value coke

Me and my girfriend take stuff in her handbag, they have no right to search it. I dont think its illegal but i expect they have every right to refuse someone onto the premises if they wanted.

exactly. I don't know about the finer details of the law, but at the end of the day it is private property so they are able to refuse you entry.

they can stop you taking your own stuff just like you cant take your own drinks into a club