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[pebblerocker]

Do any of you know of any portable snacks that can be eaten quietly?

I've started my studies with a little 3-day preparatory course, and... doing brain stuff is very tiring? Physical work I can do all day, but sitting and listening and thinking is difficult to switch into. By morning tea time I was convinced we'd skipped our first break and gone straight through to lunch. Snacking more often might help, but I don't want to bother the others with rustly muesli bar wrappings or bags of nuts.

The woman next to me ate an apple today, amazingly quietly. I like apples, but for me to eat one half that quietly would consume all my attention.

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[vilakins]

Huh, something happened to my comment; can't see it anywhere. I can't be bothered reproducing it, but basically soft thin bread-bag-type plastic would work well.

It turned up in my email just fine!

[pebblerocker]

Vilakins said: Zippy bags would cost them, but ordinary thin soft plastic bags like supermarkets sell bread in would work so much better than the crackly ones.

Once you're in the cinema though, it's a bit late to want to buy something, so the noise just annoys everyone else.

Local jaffa trivia
Little cardboard packets of jaffas (see here used to be really popular here at films which was great; pity they're now in cellophane too. A real local icon, they're little balls, chocolate covered in a hard orange-flavoured coating: either crunch them or suck them till you get to the chocolate. They're such an icon, one is often served with coffee. Heh, I recently shot one right across the cafe by picking up my spoon, not realising they put one in the bowl. They make damned good projectiles, and some kids used to fire them at others in the cinema, and no one grew up here without at least once hearing a whole packet-load roll down the steps after someone accidentally dropped theirs. Jaffas and films went together in those days, I'm sure because of the little packets as well as the taste.

Re: It turned up in my email just fine!

[vilakins]

Thanks! Weird. At first I thought it was hidden in a collapsed thread somewhere, or I commented somewhere else in error.