Pain au chocolat.
Yesterday I had to go through the humiliating act of eating pastries at the cinema. The only theatre in town that shows movies in original language, doesn’t sell any popcorn. In fact they don’t sell any kind of candy. There are only two vending machines, offering canned soda and ice cream! The kind on a stick with chocolate coating that conveniently falls of, lands somewhere on your clothes, and is impossible to find in the darkness of a cinema theatre. No wonder nobody’s buying them. Perhaps they thought that since it’s so pleasant to eat ice cream in front of a movie at home, why not sell some in the cinema?
But the beauty of eating popcorn in a cinema is the quantity of it. You would have something to snack on throughout the entire film; whereas an ice cream wouldn’t last you past the commercials, and would probably stain your shirt/trousers or both, so you would look like an idiot coming out of the cinema, thus failing to seduce that date you brought with you. Now I can understand that the French (outside of Paris) perhaps just haven’t got the habit of snacking in the cinema. But if you chose to sell something edible, why ice cream on a stick?
My roommate said that they didn’t sell popcorn because they don’t want to get fat. Well I am not sure if this is a widely spread explanation. Either it would mean that the cinema owners would have the social responsibility to set aside commercial aspects, and decide not to sell popcorn in order to keep the French population slim. Or it would mean that they have tried to sell popcorn in the cinemas, but the French refused to buy it, safeguarding their figure. But then again, why the ice cream?
But the beauty of eating popcorn in a cinema is the quantity of it. You would have something to snack on throughout the entire film; whereas an ice cream wouldn’t last you past the commercials, and would probably stain your shirt/trousers or both, so you would look like an idiot coming out of the cinema, thus failing to seduce that date you brought with you. Now I can understand that the French (outside of Paris) perhaps just haven’t got the habit of snacking in the cinema. But if you chose to sell something edible, why ice cream on a stick?
My roommate said that they didn’t sell popcorn because they don’t want to get fat. Well I am not sure if this is a widely spread explanation. Either it would mean that the cinema owners would have the social responsibility to set aside commercial aspects, and decide not to sell popcorn in order to keep the French population slim. Or it would mean that they have tried to sell popcorn in the cinemas, but the French refused to buy it, safeguarding their figure. But then again, why the ice cream?
So it was that we had to resort to the nearest Boulangerie (bread and pastry shop), since no Epicerie (mini market) was to be found in the proximity. 2 Swedes eating pain au chocolat (chocolate filled croissants), grissini sticks, and some unknown French pastry. My French roommate had nothing. He is very slim though.
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