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Baby on bus eating pizza!

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Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 21:38

Would you leave your baby in pushchair eating pizza?

Baby was definitely not walking yet and eating a piece of pizza on their own, lay back abit not even upright in the pushchair!😱

AIBU to think the base of a pizza isn't suitable for a baby, let alone eating without someone really watching over them.😕
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OP posts:
KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 22:56

Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 22:16

Heres the answer.

Generally no — at least not normal pizza.

  • Pizza is usually too salty
  • Often hard or chewy (choking risk)
  • Cheese and tomato sauce can upset sensitive tummies
  • 6 -12 months.

I think our answers are far better.

Watchoutfortheslowaraf · 11/01/2026 22:54

Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 22:16

Heres the answer.

Generally no — at least not normal pizza.

  • Pizza is usually too salty
  • Often hard or chewy (choking risk)
  • Cheese and tomato sauce can upset sensitive tummies
  • 6 -12 months.

Generally no to what?

Homemade pizza isn’t too salty

chewy foods are fine for babies over 6 months

any food can upset sensitive tummies. Cheese and tomatoes are healthy foods, fine for most babies

6-12 months is bay led weaning age

The only concern I’d have is that baby was reclined and should be sitting upright. It’s odd to me you’ve started such a judgy thread

User0311 · 11/01/2026 22:53

Is this for real? Not your child not your business

FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 22:53

@littleorangefox if they can grasp the hot-dog stuffed crust pizza ok, then they have the dexterity for a can. Let’s not infantise babies, it doesn’t help them at all.

January2026Bluesoohs · 11/01/2026 22:53

Rosesanddaffs · 11/01/2026 22:52

Howling at the responses 😂🤣😂🤣😂 so funny

Same! 😂😂😂🤣

January2026Bluesoohs · 11/01/2026 22:53

KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 22:51

I am actually shocked. I would always wait until I got off the bus was outside the betting shop before I gave mine pizza. I'd often nip out and give them a bag of Monster Munch if they still looked hungry and the racing was still on.

😂😂😂😂😂

ClairDeLaLune · 11/01/2026 22:53

Mumwithbaggage · 11/01/2026 22:44

Dd1 and her friend were weaned on Pizza Express crusts while we mums had our evening out after work every Thursday. Both girls are articulate graduates with houses, good jobs and partners. Obviously, Pizza Express pizza doesn't count because back in the day it was much more middle class. And we'd have never given them pineapple.

Were you in the Woking restaurant frequented by the Yorks oops I mean the Mountbatten Windsors? Proper posh that one.

SconehengeRevenge · 11/01/2026 22:52

Judgey McJudgeface

Rosesanddaffs · 11/01/2026 22:52

Howling at the responses 😂🤣😂🤣😂 so funny

KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 22:52

NormasArse · 11/01/2026 22:50

I don’t think Buckfast has sweeteners.

A natural alternative

littleorangefox · 11/01/2026 22:51

HelenaWaiting · 11/01/2026 22:45

Personally, I never got on the bus without providing my baby with a kebab and a can of Tennant's Extra.

A can of Tennant's extra for a baby?? You have to put it in their bottle. They'll spill a can.

KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 22:51

I am actually shocked. I would always wait until I got off the bus was outside the betting shop before I gave mine pizza. I'd often nip out and give them a bag of Monster Munch if they still looked hungry and the racing was still on.

Chickenhorse · 11/01/2026 22:51

Sanasaaa · 11/01/2026 21:59

Probably drinking 'full fat' coke with their extra large Pitbull. 😰

(Obv I'm joking)

I thought Pitbulls preferred Redbull? With a packet of cheese and onion crisps.

NormasArse · 11/01/2026 22:50

Idontpostmuch · 11/01/2026 22:35

No irn bru now horrible since some sugar replaced by artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners not good for babies

I don’t think Buckfast has sweeteners.

Porwrp · 11/01/2026 22:50

I'm loving all the top level bus snack suggestions.

May I proffer: a bag of cheese straws from Cooplands.

Yes a Greggs sausage roll is good, but it's almost too good for a baby. Keep those to yourself and just give them half a cheese straw to drool on.

littleorangefox · 11/01/2026 22:50

Was it stuffed crust though?

Porwrp · 11/01/2026 22:48

If your bus journey today wasn't a once in a lifetime event you are going to need to learn to unclench.

HelenaWaiting · 11/01/2026 22:45

Blarn · 11/01/2026 21:56

Ridiculous.

You want Fanta.

Personally, I never got on the bus without providing my baby with a kebab and a can of Tennant's Extra.

HomeSeeker2025 · 11/01/2026 22:45

Koolandorthegang · 11/01/2026 21:49

Lucky baby. What I wouldn’t give to be reclined on a bus eating pizza

😂 Brilliant

NotAnotherOneNC · 11/01/2026 22:45

Delphiniumandlupins · 11/01/2026 22:42

I think anyone eating pizza in public should be prepared to share and it doesn't sound as if this child was. Therefore YANBU.

Ah! Good cross post.

Mumwithbaggage · 11/01/2026 22:44

Dd1 and her friend were weaned on Pizza Express crusts while we mums had our evening out after work every Thursday. Both girls are articulate graduates with houses, good jobs and partners. Obviously, Pizza Express pizza doesn't count because back in the day it was much more middle class. And we'd have never given them pineapple.

NotAnotherOneNC · 11/01/2026 22:43

This is dreadful. I cannot believe this baby had such a lack of manners that it didn't even offer to share...

FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 22:43

Was it a nice pushchair or a cheap one with noisy wheels? I wouldn’t have left my uppabay unattended, but the cheap holiday buggy I probably would have happily abandoned.

January2026Bluesoohs · 11/01/2026 22:43

Jokes aside though toddler with pizza on a bus is a NO NO massive red flag for neglect and shite parents, if it was a truck or lorry it’s fine.

Delphiniumandlupins · 11/01/2026 22:42

I think anyone eating pizza in public should be prepared to share and it doesn't sound as if this child was. Therefore YANBU.