This classic Yellow box design is my favorite

Cinema Snacks: London Edition

This is always my favourite way to see movies, few expectations = more magic.

Aug 17, 2018 3:00PM EDT

Rachel Megawhat @MegawhatPhoto

Rachel is a London, UK, based photographer and journalist who also exhibits as a fine artist.

This is a posh London Cinema that likes to overwhelm people with snack choices

Its England – you can always get Pork Scratchings and Jelly Babies, standard

THREE pounds FORTY, just a pound in the shop next door

It’s snowing outside so no ones looking for icecream even if it is Sweedish

[I see what you did there—Ed.]

This classic Yellow box design is my favorite

This is the sweet and salty popcorn mix being expertly decanted – only some spills

Beetroot Horseradish and dill crisps? BHD?

out of focus cos I just want to eat it – bought these delicious sweets to share, forgetting my friend is diabetic. May have finished the whole packet myself

It’s one-of-my-oldest-friend’s birthday and she asks me to go to the cinema with her Monday morning. I literally dream of having excuses to be at the movies on Monday, and this way I also get loyal friend points win win! We meet for breakfast so are not exactly starving hungry as we arrive but of course we still need popcorn—it’s the movies. We get one large box (sweet and salty mix—always the best) and share it out into two containers once we sit down. We are both old enough to know we don’t share nicely! Being Monday morning the movie house only has about 4 other people in it but still my friend tells me to put my camera away—old friends you have to obey them on their birthdays.

The movie was called The Shape of Water. I had actually avoided hearing much about this, I knew it had won an Oscar but not really what it was about, my friend had said “it has sex scenes with a fish”. This is always my favourite way to see movies, few expectations = more magic. This was certainly a visually beautiful start to our week. As we came out into south London the day had become sunny and all felt right with the world. Guillermo del Toro had shared his strange vision with us, had he been born English he would have been called William Bull, we wondered if his films would be the same.

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