In August 2004, another version of The Scream was stolen in Oslo along with Munch's The Madonna, this time from the Munch Museum.

BBC: 1994: Art thieves snatch Scream

They had minor marks and tears and were put back on show in September 2006 at the Munch Museum - this time protected in heavy glass boxes.

BBC: 1994: Art thieves snatch Scream

As for food, Broadway theaters have allowed snacks and drinks for years, and people crunch and munch through Lincoln Center performances all the time.

WSJ: Culture City: Eats and Tweets in the Seats

Single people are single because they have these horrible imperfections that make them unlovable and destined to live alone for the rest of time, surrounded by legions of cats that will inevitably munch on their lifeless bodies for weeks after they expire because no one will care enough to notice they are gone.

FORBES: Single People - It's Not Them, It's You

So now, I spend a large portions of my free time watching praying mantids molt, hummingbirds catch gnats over the compost pile, monarch caterpillars munch away the milkweed.

FORBES: Books And Mantids

Even the fasting month of Ramadan, the traditional time for restraint and pious introspection, seems often to be abused as people smoke or munch openly in violation of official propaganda.

ECONOMIST: For ordinary Iranians, daily life goes from bad to worse