The 'Fifty Shades effect' escalates as cinema usher finds alarming item after film screening
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As any keen cinema-goer knows, over-priced popcorn and pic'n'mix are the perfect accompaniment to any film.
Fruit and veg, on the other hand, tend to be a less popular choice.
Unless, of course, you're going to a 50 Shades Darker viewing, in which case it may very well enhance your experience.
Though whether as a healthy snack or as, er, something else, is up to the individual.
Someone in Sydney certainly had their own reasons for taking a cucumber to a screening of the next instalment in the romance / drama franchise.
50 Shades of your five a day.
Whether you love or loathe these films, there's no denying their clout.
The books and films have reportedly inspired us Brits to be more adventurous between the sheets - often with suboptimal consequences: Firefighters have had to free 102 people from handcuffs and cut 23 rings off mens' penises .
But back to the cucumber.
An usher at the Hayden Orpheum Cinema claims to have stumbled across the vegetable after a screening of Fifty Shades Darker, and posted a picture on Twitter.
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He captioned it with: "That awkward moment when you find a cucumber in the cinema after a Fifty Shades session."
Some of the responses wondered if it was a PR stunt.
We're just wondering why he didn't put on a pair of gloves.