Eating on Trains

I agree with bluebelle sometimes people have to eat on a train journey if its a long journey and you are going straight onto a meeting after its either eat on the train or not at all. Also you often have to eat when travelling with small children. I think I will feel even more self conscious about it now after reading this thread!

Yes I have the same phobia it is called Misophonia and my daughter has it too.
Cant stand it and even less when people speak with their mouth full!

I ate a home-made sandwich (cheese and lettuce), three small tomatoes and a satsuma on a train yesterday. It left at 12.17 and got into London at 1.15pm, where I needed to be for at meeting at 2pm in Bloomsbury. What else could I have done? I'm not missing lunch because other people might not like it.

I often quote to OH what I call "The gem of the day" on GN.
I'm spoilt/ spoiled ( for the pendants) for choice on this thread. ?

I’m afraid I’m guilty of eating on trains, crisps included. I regularly undertake a 6 hour trip, so fairly frequent snacks are needed, the dining car being well beyond my budget.

For goodness sake, I ve never read such a ridiculous post. Often people are making long journeys and I d much rather they ate something than had them faint from lack of nutrition because someone doesn’t happen to like the sound they make when they eat or the smell from their food. Funnily enough as human beings we have a fundamental need to eat to survive and generally healthy food such as eggs and salad are better for us. Be thankful there’s no smoking in confined spaces anymore. As a vegetarian I m quite likely to be eating egg sandwiches and make no apologies for that. How about we display a little more tolerance to our often stressed, tired and hungry, fellow travellers. Rant over, thanks for reading ?

I Agree that a journey is often the only time in the day to eat and we should be more tolerant of others, and more considerate in our choices of food. And yes, sometimes a half an hour bus journey is the only time to eat too. Needs must.

I eat on both trains and coaches when travelling anywhere, its normal in some countries with food sellers jumping on and off trains selling all kinds of food. I see nothing wrong with as long as you clear up your rubbish afterwards. Better than smoking.

I’ve no problem with people eating on public transport although agree that smelly food is a bit antisocial. Last week on a train I sat opposite a man about my own age who ate an apple - nothing wrong with that. He then got a toothpick out and proceeded to spend five minutes ‘excavating’ all around inside his mouth. I could almost count how many fillings he had ?

We're all different and that has to be a good thing. I am a regular train traveler - often substantial journeys to see the grandkids. I always take a train picnic. But it does amaze me that folk who are quite happy to wander around breathing diesel fumes in all day on the street get very sensitive on the train or even those who live in houses with those toxic plug-in air 'fresheners'.
I object to folk who get out their nail-varnish or hairspray or other chemically make-up regardless of the confined space and start poisoning the carriage. Loud phone conversations and groups of both men and women who think the carriage is some sort of exhibitionist's display area and everyone is just dying to know who they shagged last weekend or how drunk they are. I suppose if everyone who was likely to offend anyone else was banned, there would be no train travel.

We were brought up with, no eating in public, smoking was men only-ended up grateful for that one !!! never late for work. Another era though!!!

Frankly, I do not think you can reasonably object to people eating on trains - journeys are often long.

Buses and the underground is perhaps a different kettle of fish.

I am really at a loss to undertand why you object to this.

Do you object to passengers sneezing or coughing as well?

It doesn’t bother me if people eat on trains. I am guilty of this myself and do take a sarnie on long journeys. Will make a point of taking egg next time, simply to raise some eyebrows. If you use public transport you have to put up with the public with all their smells and horrid habits.

You should try upstairs on the bus at 3.30. Kids come out of school, straight to the chip shop. A chip underfoot at every step, not to mention the pong.Ok.

Not sure where the ok came from.

I'm outraged!
I was refused entry on a bus for having my wrapped up chips in a shopping bag.
I told the driver I wasn't going to eat them, and he said I might be "just saying that!"

Can someone please give me a lesson on how to eat crisps quietly?

You Echo my thoughts too, I couldnt travel hours on a train and not eat or drink I would be fainting , some of us do undertake journeys that take nearly all day.

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Easy newatthis dunk them in your coffee ??

Even on a flight from London to Glasgow I used to manage to eat a sandwich and some crisps, washed down with coffee.
1 hour 10 mins!

Facebook page - misophonia....recommend having a look ?

there are times when you need to eat on a train or a long bus journey,I don't mind if people are considerate,but not really smelly monster munch onion crisps or something like that.Also,people should tidy up after themselves.I sat near 2 smartly dressed women drinking Costa coffee on a bus.When we reached the last stop I noticed they had left the cups on the floor,one had spilled, so there was coffee running down the bus.If they hadn't already gone I would have been tempted to tell them they'd left something.

Apologies to anyone who was offended by my post ( now deleted by GNHQ)
To be clear, Neither I nor any family member have ever been to India and my post was informed by reading books and watching travelogues written and made by professional travel writers such as Michael Palin.
If the incidents I mentioned are untrue, then the content I read and viewed must have been untrue.
Obviously, I was misled.

Perhaps it was your interpretation which was at fault.
There is no substitute for personal experience is there?