Eating on Trains

The menu changes regularly

It's not universally agreed though.

Some people have strong random distastes for the smells of random foods. Some people don't care at all. Some people have a mild dislike but shrug it off.

Some foods are more disliked than others perhaps, but I'd bet if you started a poll there'd be a big split on whether eating eg smoked salmon sandwiches, next to a random customer was fair enough or a massive breach of the social contract.

Oh this thread was not what I expected. Hot food - hmm not good. But years ago i commuted to London from Portsmouth harbour daily. Once i saw a couple who did the same commute unpack an entire picnic of baguette, pate, fruit and red wine and followed their lead from that day on.

Err... Yes that has definitely happened

I will take them somewhere else to eat now.

I think everyone has a different sense of smell. I honestly can't smell eggs at all. But I find the smell of tuna totally overpoweringly awful.

They smell like sausage and egg.

What's the consensus on Scotch eggs then?

They wouldn't really smell contained to a lunchbox, even though I have been able to smell them through containers before. I do have a dog nose though. I doubt it's a problem if you have them at lunch unless you're peeling and eating them at your desk!

Eggs smell regardless of how they're cooked.
I can only assume the eaters get immune to the pong, like those who are adamant their pets don't whiff.

I just feel bad about the egg thing because I take hard boiled eggs to the office all the time in my lunchbox as I honestly can't smell them at all

It's a suggestion in response to the previous quote - maybe read the thread?

Eggs definitely stink

But Egg sandwiches are a classic part of an Afternoon Tea so hardly antisocial

Still got full dining on some Welsh trains. No reheated rubbish, proper food cooked fresh: https://tfw.wales/ways-to-travel/rail/food-and-drink/first-class-dining/first-class

😂😂Totally agree!

Hard boiled eggs do smell yes: I love them and they are my go-to breakfast but if I’m out of the house I eat them whilst walking along the road to work/ sitting on a bench outside rather than in an enclosed room. In the same category as re-heating fish in the work microwave.

I think you are being very precious OP about eating on trains. People travel long distances, have busy lives, health conditions, children to feed, get caught out by the great British summer when they were hoping to have an outside picnic etc, etc. Part of public transport I’m afraid, babies cry, luggage gets in the way, bacon sandwiches smell. Such is life.

No time at all for the poster earlier calling people enjoying a McDonalds on the way home ‘disgusting pigs’. Horrid way to talk about people enjoying a few chips after an enjoyable evening. Live and let live.

I know, apparently it's your own fault for over cooking them too! Any boiled eggs stink. As soon as you open an egg sandwich or a boiled egg the farty smell wafts out.

Can't believe people think eggs have no smell they are literally one of the smelliest food especially hard boiled, as someone said they can have quite a farty smell hence "eggy farts" 😂 or saying something smells of rotten eggs. Horrible things. My son likes hard boiled eggs but I'd never allow him to take them to school for lunch because they stink and he would be made fun of, same for eggs sandwiches they are very antisocial!

@ZiriForGood I'd say most boiled eggs are "overcooked" by definition. They all smell. Soft boiled/fried etc aren't as pungent but you can't really take them in a lunchbox.

Hm.. I don't buy hard boiled eggs, so that might explain it. Thanks for the tip I will continue not buying them.

I googled the chemical process of the smell and it still seems the normal non-overcooked eggs should be fine.

That might have been me. Sorry.

There is no rule like that. It is totally normal to buy something on the train station and take it to the train.

Love eating on the train. Find it bizarre some people saying the people eating are being antisocial and thinking their needs trump everyone else's when you are thinking your need to not have any smells on board trumps everyone else's needs to eat. Since when does fish and chips smell bad anyway. Live and let live.

@ZiriForGood yeah it's not just eggs I make. Any shop bought ones/hard boiled eggs have a smell to them. You're likely nose blind to it and offending people next to you.

Strange. I have never noticed hard boiled eggs to have any distinctive smell at all.

I googled it now and it seems overcooked eggs can develop a smell, but that is easily preventable by cooling them down when the cooking time is over. It doesn't seem that normal boiled eggs would be a problem.
Maybe stop overcooking your eggs and they will be fine?

"Hard boiled eggs should be contained within 2 heavily buttered/mayonnaised bread slices (or similar), seasoned/green herbed to taste to reduce any offence to fellow train passengers."

According to my Good Passenger Bible - happy to provide any other 'passenger' tips but maybe you should just buy my Passenger Bible (that I haven't written yet) instead.

@spriots interesting, they can smell quite pongy/farty especially when you peel them! You're not missing anything by not being able to smell them anyway