I have never seen ice-cream sold in cinemas nor in theatres (that was a bit of a culture shock! Food? In the front house?) in the states. I have seen candies of various kinds in cinemas though.
On the donut thing - the most common are the rings, but the round ones can be filled with anything really. Jelly is just as popular as cream fillings where I come from and I've only rarely ever seen the spelling "doughnut"
Ben & Jerry's got sold to a multinational, though - P&G I think. I have to admit I tend to avoid them as most of their flavors have crud in, like marshmallow or fudge or caramel or uncooked dough, and I'm a bit of a purist for flavors!
UK donuts are also yeasted and fried, but I think KK have more yeast and baking powder? Pret a Manger sell baked doughnuts which are crap - like bread with jam in!
20 years ago 'American' meant exotic and expensive. Now it seems to have made a bit of a comeback but only in the munchies market and for fridge-freezers. Will discuss at some pubmeet in the future.
Well, there are cake doughnuts and yeast doughnuts. Personally I prefer yeast doughnuts covered with granulated sugar or maple long johns. I don't get on well with cake doughnuts at all. You can get filled doughnuts which usually have jam or custard in them, but if you have a *good* doughnut shop they will fill them for you fresh with pretty much anything (chocolate, lemon, boysenberry...)
As for movie theatres, I have never been to a theatre that offered refreshments and but not chocolates and sweets. Bigger theatres in the states have full on food courts and you can get anything from nachos to tea and coffee, milkshakes, cheesecake, pizza, icecream... If it is unhealthy, greasy, drippy, gooey or sugary they've got it.
for a while theatres were trying to sell chocolate ice cream covered things that they were calling bonbons because they looked like bonbons (but they were *not* because they were ice cream!), but i think they stopped that after a while.
regal cinemas, if you'll notice, has links to m&ms and skittles on the bottom of their website, and at the last movie i went to i purchased a bag of popcorn which had m&ms frolicking about on it. i didn't purchase one of the "candy combos," but they were rampant. i think the closest thing to ice cream, though, at the movies at the moment, might be icees. which are a different thing altogether.
The only movie theater I went to in the states that sold ice cream was our local drive-in, but those are an entirely different experience. As everyone else has said, most of the regular cinemas sell popcorn, soda and candy, but not ice cream. I was actually sort of surprised the first time I went to a cinema here and saw it!
Oh, and I spell doughnuts with the whole "ugh". I had a teacher when I was little stress the importance of spelling it correctly, so I always have. Both spellings are in common practice, I think.
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On the donut thing - the most common are the rings, but the round ones can be filled with anything really. Jelly is just as popular as cream fillings where I come from and I've only rarely ever seen the spelling "doughnut"
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UK donuts are also yeasted and fried, but I think KK have more yeast and baking powder? Pret a Manger sell baked doughnuts which are crap - like bread with jam in!
20 years ago 'American' meant exotic and expensive. Now it seems to have made a bit of a comeback but only in the munchies market and for fridge-freezers. Will discuss at some pubmeet in the future.
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Unilever, for $326 million. Mm, very much in keeping with the hippy ideal!
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As for movie theatres, I have never been to a theatre that offered refreshments and but not chocolates and sweets. Bigger theatres in the states have full on food courts and you can get anything from nachos to tea and coffee, milkshakes, cheesecake, pizza, icecream... If it is unhealthy, greasy, drippy, gooey or sugary they've got it.
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regal cinemas, if you'll notice, has links to m&ms and skittles on the bottom of their website, and at the last movie i went to i purchased a bag of popcorn which had m&ms frolicking about on it. i didn't purchase one of the "candy combos," but they were rampant. i think the closest thing to ice cream, though, at the movies at the moment, might be icees. which are a different thing altogether.
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Oh, and I spell doughnuts with the whole "ugh". I had a teacher when I was little stress the importance of spelling it correctly, so I always have. Both spellings are in common practice, I think.
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