A Popcorn and Pills, Please

The question from Feb. 2:

What food items would you like to see offered at theater concession stands?

“Stomach acid pills to combat all the junk food offered.”

--FRED FISHEL, Los Angeles

“Movie theaters should sell food according to what is playing. A reissue of ‘Jaws’: fish and chips. ‘Blazing Saddles’: beans.”

--WAYNE E. SCOTT, Camarillo

“How about frozen yogurt at affordable prices? A perfect combination: glacial theater temperatures to keep it cold, and no more taking out bank loans to pay for it.”

--SHARON KARP, Los Angeles

“Plain sparkling water. AMC used to have this available but no more. It is no cost to the theaters since there is a tab on the soda machine that provides it. No additional capital expenditures. What a concept.”

--KENNETH L. BLOCK,

Pacific Palisades

“Movie theaters should sell beer just as all civilized countries do.”

--KURT HAUG, Santa Barbara

“Just good pictures, please, and nothing to eat or drink, or that rattles or smells!”

--DOROTHY REINHART, Oxnard

“Sunflower seeds. If we don’t like the movie, we can always take it out on the ushers.”

--EMMANUEL RUSTIA, Chino Hills

“A set of jawbreakers so big and so full of chewy caramel that it will prevent any and all children from screaming.”

--WERNER HAAS

West Hollywood

“They should really have ‘prank’ food. Like, if you’re watching a horror movie and you ‘accidentally’ dump popcorn on someone, except it’s rigged on strings.”

--ARIANA LENARSKY

Los Angeles

The question for Feb. 9:

Earth Solutions offers a product called the HairScenter that uses a blow dryer to apply aromas to the hair (see story, this page). If you could bottle a scent and market it in this manner, what would it be?

Send replies of 25 words or fewer to Smart Aleck, in care of So Cal Living, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053, or e-mail [email protected]. Include your name and hometown. Replies will appear next week.