Eating on Trains

I'm always very interested in other peoples packed lunches, on journeys.
I like to see how they eat, and what they enjoy.

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I also have a hatred of the noises people make when they eat so am grateful to read that it is do with my brain and not me just being a moaning ratbag!

i hate it when someone eats burger or kebab in the same carriage. or stinks of drink. i usually up and move.

Crisps, by their nature, are crunchy! Would be hard to eat them silently. Ditto apples.
My pet hate is people who eat with their mouths open.

N&G I like the sound of a fish and chips train!

The worse smell is when someone gets on the bus or tube with McDonalds - the smell makes me slightly nauseous and it lingers long after the eater has got off.

I wasn't expecting to share a carriage with you Gabriella.

I know you have to eat on a long journey but do people have to drink alcohol to excess several times now have been surrounded by drunk people ?
Hen party at 10.30 in the morning on one journey, Stag party at 3 in afternoon on another and very drunk young man on another.
Don’t get me wrong, I like a glass of wine but don’t think it’s appropriate to drink to excess on public transport.

I was once on a trip up to York with booked seats - young man got on at Sheffield and sat next to me and proceeded to unwrap smelly sandwiches . The fact that I started to gag made him move into a different carriage !!!
The ones that annoy me are those that sit opposite where there's a table, unpack a 3 course meal, lap top, tablet, large file and completely take over the table regardless of my book !
And all those that get on clutching cups of coffee!

Different generation - no manners whatsoever. I also dislike phone conversations on public transport, where we have to listen to some long winded dribble that goes on and on and on.

Back in the 70s DH and I used to go on business trips which meant an early start. We would leave our carriage and go off to the dining car, which was First Class, and sit in luxury eating a lovely breakfast with as much toast, tea and coffee as we could stuff down. By the time we'd finished the train would be rolling into Birmingham or wherever and off we'd go.

Obviously on a long trip you need to eat, but I do try to plan sensibly with non smelly food that can be eaten without too much mess. It's the non stop eating that annoys me. On a train or bus, in the cinema, in the street, even eating food in a shop before it's even reached the checkout. People seem to be unable to cope without food in their hands at all times.

I am afraid that I would upset quite a few people then, because I would always pick an egg sandwich above anything else! And I would always have a mini bottle of wine ? or Prosecco ?!

How things have changed! We were brought up not to eat on the street , you even had to sit down to eat an ice cream. Plus there wasn't the take away food available for people to eat 'where ever.'

when my friend and I used to go on day trips depending on the destination we often took our lunch with us so that we could have the maximum amount of time to see the sights wherever

I travelled everywhere by train when my kids were little....if anybody is so damn grumpy as to allow a family with two small kids to go hungry on a 4 hour train trip is an extremely precious personality ! Would you rather have irritable, crying toddlers near you? Honestly some people!

Eating on buses banned in West Australia- good idea

Maybe the person eating was diabetic and had low blood sugar ?When my DS comes to visit every other weekend by train he sets off from home at 5.30. By mid morning he is ravenous.

I am diabetic and sometimes NEED to eat when out. I do not have 'smelly' food and try to keep a low profile.

I was fascinated to see an elderly couple across the isle from me gradually work their way through a full 3 course meal, each one eaten, cleared away then the next set of containers appearing from their copious bags. They rounded off with tea from a flask, a litre carton of milk and a container of sugar. Oh and biscuits.

I too hate it when people have to noisily chomp their way through a large bag of crisps. Fortunately I am slightly hard of hearing and can remove my hearing aids if necessary.

It’s ok bluesaffire you can share the seats with annodomino, missadventure and me all munching on our egg sandwiches with, shock horror, unwashed hands ???

Happychops think I was on that same train with "crisp man"!

Atqui there is a phobia about loud, eating noises!

On a train journey in Germany recently the young couple our assigned seats were next to were happily eating lunch they'd brought with them including salt to put on the radishes!!

Nothing wrong with people eating on long journeys as far as I'm concerned it's just bad eating habits that get me. Still it's not surprising that some people display such bad habits when it's encouraged on the television. There is a certain large crisp in a tube that usually shows pretty awful eating habits in it's adverts, kids spearing sausages and fishfingers with a fork and chomping a lump off the end, we are bombarded with such displays.

Many, many years ago I sat on a plane and across the aisle a man took out a tin of sardines and ate them, the smell was dreadful in such an enclosed space. Maybe he noticed because he then took out a spray deodorant, lifted hit T-shirt and sprayed, not sure which was worse.

Doesn’t bother me - sometimes the journey from a to b is the only window in a working day that you get to eat.

sodapop …. you reminded me of when I used to do the same. In my early 20's I used to work for a firm selling cars and I had to accompany them sometimes taking the train from Hertfordshire to Southampton car auctions to drive one of the cars back that they had bought. On the way there we would have a large cooked breakfast that we only managed to finish as we arrived at Southampton. I had totally forgotten that fun experience until you jogged my memory. Happy days.