@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoA woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrivedwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square290fedilinkarrow-up1546arrow-down120cross-posted to: newzealand@lemmy.nz
arrow-up1526arrow-down1external-linkA woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrivedwww.theguardian.com@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square290fedilinkcross-posted to: newzealand@lemmy.nz
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille TaserlinkfedilinkEnglish50•2 months ago It’s not technically outside food I am not sure how you convinced yourself of this
minus-square@fubarx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish11•2 months agoRaw popcorn kernels are not digestible ‘food.’ Oil is not food. Salt is not food. Combine. Add heat. Et Voila! Someone complain, bring in bags of powdered chemicals, beakers, reagents, and bunsen burners, and go to work. It’s all in the technical margins.
minus-square@Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish19•2 months agoAll 3 of those things are tax-exempt where I’m from, because they’re food Worth a try though
minus-square@fubarx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish-1•2 months agoTax-exemption opens up a whole other promising venue. Hibachi and a chartered accountant at the next movie night. This could work.
minus-square@Unreliable@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoIf I bring my own food and consume it indoors it is indoor food. If I ate it outside, it would be outside food. /s
minus-square@Fedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 months agoIf I had to guess the idea is the food comes to the theater in a truck, too, is that also “outside food”? Realistically though I think everyone knows you’re supposed to buy the food in the theater - everything else is people being cute
I am not sure how you convinced yourself of this
Raw popcorn kernels are not digestible ‘food.’ Oil is not food. Salt is not food.
Combine. Add heat. Et Voila! Someone complain, bring in bags of powdered chemicals, beakers, reagents, and bunsen burners, and go to work.
It’s all in the technical margins.
All 3 of those things are tax-exempt where I’m from, because they’re food
Worth a try though
Tax-exemption opens up a whole other promising venue. Hibachi and a chartered accountant at the next movie night.
This could work.
Jesse, wtf are you talking about
If I bring my own food and consume it indoors it is indoor food. If I ate it outside, it would be outside food. /s
If I had to guess the idea is the food comes to the theater in a truck, too, is that also “outside food”?
Realistically though I think everyone knows you’re supposed to buy the food in the theater - everything else is people being cute