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If there's total lockdown, can I order takeaway food?

149 replies

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 23/03/2020 18:18

Getting my priorities right 🥴🥴🥴🥴

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threatmatrix · 24/03/2020 17:42

Sorry, heard it all now

JockTamsonsBairns · 24/03/2020 17:46

Formerly that's interesting. I'm in North Yorkshire, so probably less densely populated I think? Although it is a huge 24hr Tesco Extra, and there are far fewer supermarkets in the vicinity. I don't really understand the reasoning.

purplebunny2012 · 24/03/2020 18:06

Yes, contactless delivery. We're having pizza tonight because I got paid and Just Eat is Cheeky Tuesday

tierdytierd · 24/03/2020 18:11

Delivery drivers are working in the UK, it’s left on your step, providing the business is Operating that is

Mary54 · 24/03/2020 18:19

Still allowed in Germany

MacBlank · 24/03/2020 18:30

Well I HAD a takeaway last night, and it was bloody tasty 😜

Takeaway delivery people are classed as essential ... I'm.sure they must be!

Our delivery person came to our door as normal, but we chose to hand over the money in a bag, as as used by the app.

VerbenaGirl · 24/03/2020 18:37

We have just finished a takeaway from our favourite curry house. Ordered online with contactless delivery. Much needed to cheer us all up, but going careful so we have leftovers for tomorrow as well.

Jeeperscreepers69 · 24/03/2020 18:42

Who nos. Wait and see.

Esspee · 24/03/2020 20:00

No way would I eat food prepared by an unknown person while Covid19 is rampaging through the population.

FelicisNox · 24/03/2020 20:10

I've just had a takeaway pizza and we are on lockdown soooooo....

OJZJ · 24/03/2020 21:09

Strangers coughing and spluttering on your food.... delivery drivers handling food and money from possibly hundreds of people a night with out washing his hands properly between each one... seriously, why would you? Confused

Fedupwithex · 24/03/2020 21:17

@FormerlyFrikadela01 @JockTamsonsBairns I think you find the reason is your all going s?£t the bed early during the wrong time slot, causing crowding and creating a swarm of people. Whereas if you shopped for what you NEED the shelves could replenish. If everyone is going every morning and doing “a full shop” then yeah you won’t have owt

masterchef98 · 24/03/2020 22:20

I am in spain, so on a much stricter lockdown but we can still get delivery. We haven't, but many restaurants that don't normally do delivery are doing so now to help themselves stay in business. Obviously the health crisis is massive, but there is also an economic crisis brewing. Everyone has to do what they feel is appropriate for themselves within the law.

glennamy · 24/03/2020 22:36

WOW!

Rachel709 · 24/03/2020 22:47

Yes they are permitted. Online shopping is permitted.

Ellamar · 25/03/2020 01:08

Not a dig more a worry can the virus get on food or packaging? I would not trust anyone else to prepare our food now.

JockTamsonsBairns · 25/03/2020 01:14

@fedupwithex
Not sure I'm understanding your post properly, sorry! My point is, I'm not finding the shops empty, and therefore I can just shop for what I need> My entire post was about whether stockpiling was regional, as I'm not seeing it here, I don't see others doing it, and the shelves therefore remain reasonably stocked.

ExhaustedFlamingo · 25/03/2020 04:41

Funnily enough I googled this subject earlier tonight. The consensus of expert opinion was there is practically zero likelihood of it being passed on through food, and there are no cases of it which have been identified globally. The study also said that the virus doesn't multiply in the digestive tract anyway. Was very interesting to read and yes, from a reliable source, not a puff media piece.

So, based on that we had a takeaway tonight. I have food here, but I've got two autistic children at home, and I'm self-employed trying to meet deadlines while supporting their needs 24/7, cooking two meals at day to meet very specific sensory requirements. I'm working through the night because I can't work while they're awake. I'm now self-isolating too as I have a horrible dry cough, a sore throat and I'm dog tired (but that could be the lack of sleep....). I'm also asthmatic and wheezing like a bastard. I'm worried about what the next few days might hold. Given the absence of credible risk, tonight I said sod it and ordered a takeaway.

Our takeaway was indeed open. They have a no-contact option on their website, which I ticked. They were fab, left it on my door, knocked, then retreated back to their car and waited for me to open the door. Once they saw I had it they just gave me a little wave.

I got my partner ( currently recovering from suspect symptoms) to get two clean plates - I handled the potentially contaminated bag and containers while he decanted the food onto the plates. I binned the rubbish outside instantly, disinfected the door, the handles and the surface upon which I'd placed the containers. Then washed my hands obviously. Given there is only a very negligible risk of the virus being on the containers anyway, I am confident our method means we haven't exposed ourselves to any further danger. And the takeaway was bloody nice.

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 25/03/2020 06:07

Fedupwithex
We were shopping as normal. Unfortunately nobody else seems to be. We literally had no food in our house by the end of last week so were forced to use the nhs hour at tesco to do a shop. I didnt want to, my hand was forced. Good job too because as of tuesday we are in isolation so cant shop even if we wanted to.

Aesopfable · 25/03/2020 10:30

Formerly why were you forced to use the NHS hour and not go once it had finished?

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 25/03/2020 11:10

why were you forced to use the NHS hour and not go once it had finished?
Work

Barney60 · 25/03/2020 11:18

how would you know if who prepared your meal didnt have symptoms?? no I deffo would not order take a way food.

susandelgado · 25/03/2020 12:01

I did this. It was my daughters birthday and we wanted a nice meal. I ended up with food poisoning and I’ve still got it 4 days later. I’m feeling very ill. Luckily my daughter had something different so it’s just me. Doctors aren’t interested. It would be funny if I died of food poisoning instead of Coronavirus 😂 Not a mistake I’ll be making again 🤷‍♀️

Namechangervaver · 25/03/2020 15:06

Funnily enough I googled this subject earlier tonight. The consensus of expert opinion was there is practically zero likelihood of it being passed on through food, and there are no cases of it which have been identified globally. The study also said that the virus doesn't multiply in the digestive tract anyway. Was very interesting to read and yes, from a reliable source, not a puff media piece.

This sounds like BS.

The sheer epicacity

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