# Taking empty popcorn tubs out of the garbage and getting free refills

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 20, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386 "2010-07-20T19:54:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/1 "2010-07-20T19:54:07Z")

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It is kind of gross, but I am not going to pay $6 for popcorn

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### Author: ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/2 "2010-07-20T19:56:18Z")

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You love popcorn that much?? 😛

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### Author: ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/3 "2010-07-20T19:58:36Z")

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Seriously? What is wrong with you?

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### Author: ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/4 "2010-07-20T19:59:09Z")

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You know another way you could avoid paying $6 for popcorn? Don’t eat popcorn.

Seriously, just no, dude. No.

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### Author: ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/5 "2010-07-20T19:59:42Z")

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It’s stealing. The refill(s) is offered on the premise you buy the first tub.

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### Author: ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/6 "2010-07-20T20:00:07Z")

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Do you dumpster dive as well? There are probably some half eaten burgers behind McDs.

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### Author: ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/7 "2010-07-20T20:00:32Z")

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Not as bad as finding out that your coworkers are taking the soda cups and popcorn containers from the empty theatre and rinsing them out and RESELLING THEM and pocketing the cash.

How many of your coworkers?

ALL OF THEM.

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### Author: ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/8 "2010-07-20T20:07:50Z")

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You can’t enjoy a movie without popcorn. What am I supposed to do with my hands for 2 hours?

$6 for popcorn is the real crime. I am like Robin Hood: a noble thief fighting injustice.

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### Author: ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/9 "2010-07-20T20:10:43Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> $6 for popcorn is the real crime. I am like Robin Hood: a noble thief fighting injustice.

No, it’s how the theater stays in business. They don’t make any money on the tickets, you know.

Not only is it stealing, it’s gross too. Some stranger has repeatedly put their hand to their mouth and then into that bucket.

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### Author: ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/10 "2010-07-20T20:13:32Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> You can’t enjoy a movie without popcorn. What am I supposed to do with my hands for 2 hours? . . .

No, I just can’t.

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### Author: ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/11 "2010-07-20T20:15:16Z")

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> [@Yllaria](#):
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> No, I just can’t.

Sometimes it’s just TOO easy…

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### Author: ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/12 "2010-07-20T20:15:58Z")

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Yeah, no. I don’t really care about the whole stealing aspect, I’m just going by how gross it is.

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### Author: ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/13 "2010-07-20T20:18:32Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> …What am I supposed to do with my hands for 2 hours?

You’re talking about being in a movie theatre and you ask that?

OK now let’s have our fellow dopers insert about a thousand jokes about this.

EDIT:

On further thought people who grew up renting videos won’t understand this 😃

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### Author: ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/14 "2010-07-20T20:20:46Z")

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Hey just because I grew up renting videos doesn’t mean I don’t know what theaters are or the things you can do in the dark. I am tired as heck of old people mocking me. Just because I never had a record player doesn’t mean I don’t know what records are.

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### Author: ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/15 "2010-07-20T20:20:46Z")

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Ugh. If you can’t afford it, then don’t get popcorn. A resounding no from me.

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### Author: ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/16 "2010-07-20T20:21:44Z")

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OP’s got a whole lotta company there, no? :rolleyes:

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### Author: ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/17 "2010-07-20T20:23:34Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> It is kind of gross, but I am not going to pay $6 for popcorn

So what do you do when you get to the bottom of the bucket and find the hole?

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### Author: ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/18 "2010-07-20T20:24:11Z")

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> [@Markxxx](#):
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> You’re talking about being in a movie theatre and you ask that?
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> OK now let’s have our fellow dopers insert about a thousand jokes about this.
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> On further thought people who grew up renting videos won’t understand this 😃

Hey, we grew up watching Pee Wee Herman, you know.

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### Author: ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/19 "2010-07-20T20:28:13Z")

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Are you grabbing that bucket out of the trash as you sneak into the next theater for the movie you didn’t pay for?

Let me guess…you also…

cheat on your taxes.  
dine and dash.  
eat in hotel restuarants and sign the bill with your “room number”.  
kite checks.  
let your buddies get the tab, and you’ll “get it next time”.

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### Author: ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-empty-popcorn-tubs-out-of-the-garbage-and-getting-free-refills/547386/20 "2010-07-20T20:29:45Z")

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I am not a crook. I have never actually done the popcorn thing. I was just seeing what people thought of it.

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