I've always seen ice cream (usually ice cream bars) at movie theaters...maybe it's a west coast thing? But I can only ever remember seeing one person buy some. And that was some girl sitting behind me about 10 years ago that had about 10 ice cream bars (I'm so not joking) and was eating them all herself. How she ate them all before they melted, I'll never know.
Yeah, maybe it is a west coast thing because I'm in Oregon and you can see ice cream bars for sale in cinemas here...
Oh and the doughnut thing. That's the proper spelling, but I think it's thanks to the popularity/infestation of Dunkin Donuts, no one knows how to spell here any more.
Ice cream parlours aren't really set up in US cinemas like they are in the UK, but you should be able to get ice cream, but it's more likely to be a bar or an ice cream sandwich, possibly from a vending machine.
I thought chocolate was common though.
Jam donuts (which is also doughnut, but I don't know why there is a difference) are found in the US, but as I don't eat donuts often in either place, I couldn't tell you why Sainsbury decided to make these ones American-style.
I believe it's what part of the country you're in; on Long Island in New York, the majority of the cinemas are huge multiplex things and the ones I used to go to had ice cream - Dove Bars and certain Ben and Jerry's bars or sandwiches.
A movie theater in the States without chocolate?!? That's just bizarre. Ice cream isn't as common but it certainly exists (though usually as bars, rather than small tubs of ice cream). But chocolate and other such munchies, absolutely!
And that's definitely not an American-style donut.
The first time I went to a cinema in the UK (1987), they still allowed smoking! And you had an assigned seat!
In the US (in or near Chicago), most of the big multiplexes I went to had stuff like nachos as a food option and a few had ice cream (in the summer). One old theatre in Chicago had "designer" water, cappachino & espresso and Ghiradelli chocolates.
The old cinema in my town had seating where you could sit anywhere, but the new one that opened - I say new but it was probably about 6/7 years ago has assigned seating.
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Oh and the doughnut thing. That's the proper spelling, but I think it's thanks to the popularity/infestation of Dunkin Donuts, no one knows how to spell here any more.
(coming from a bit of a Spelling Nazi, though!)
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I thought chocolate was common though.
Jam donuts (which is also doughnut, but I don't know why there is a difference) are found in the US, but as I don't eat donuts often in either place, I couldn't tell you why Sainsbury decided to make these ones American-style.
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We stopped using "doughnut" ages ago.
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And that's definitely not an American-style donut.
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In the US (in or near Chicago), most of the big multiplexes I went to had stuff like nachos as a food option and a few had ice cream (in the summer). One old theatre in Chicago had "designer" water, cappachino & espresso and Ghiradelli chocolates.
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No smoking now though!
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