Aged 39, I've just ordered my first ever takeaway.

[Toddlerteaplease]

To be delivered. Never ever done it before. But got sick of cooking myself and miss eating out. It arrived in 9 minutes! So impressed. (It was Nando's!)

So, if you buy a lunchtime sandwich from Sainsbury’s, you call that a takeaway?!

Ordering in greggs or the chippy in person is not a takeaway
Takeaway is something ordered online or phone delivered to your house

Funnily the pandemic has generally stopped me having them delivered. We last picked up one over Christmas after an evening out. I think they are so overpriced prefer to cook .

This thread is Mumsnet at its finest

The first thing I ate today was Greggs delivered to my door, I can't help myself with the Just Eat app, it's just so easy!

Mmm greggs

@ssd

Is this the next mn brag, never having a takeaway?

It's up there with no tv in kids bedrooms, kids never have McDonald's etc etc

God, do you remember when the 'hottest topic' on MN was TV's in kids bedrooms!

...seems so weird now...

@daisypond no because that's a pre packaged sandwich lol.im talking about walking in somewhere and ordering a sandwich and taking it away that's literally what a takeaway is lol.

Never had a takeaway delivered at all, and I am older than the OP by a few years. Had grocery deliveries for several years from time to time though, and have bought takeaways (four now within five minutes walk of my house).

But in your example you take the wrapped greggs away,it doesn’t waft out on its own hands free in a haze of deliciousness

"None of your examples are takeaways @DwangelaForever
All those examples are ordered and paid face to face
A takeaway is phone or online and not face to face"

Lol what? It's a take away because you are literally TAKING IT AWAY to eat elsewhere.

Takeaway is a delivery meal
It’s not greggs,the chippy,or a service station

When the kids were growing up I maintained it wasnt my job to encourage the kids to eat Chinese, Indian, Mexican or any other form of takeway food because mother nature would suddenly sort it once they were 17 and had a few beers and found the kebab shop!

To me, takeaway is anything you didn't sit down in the restaurant to eat.

Seldom had it growing up either. We had a caravan and took holidays and it was so exciting as a child to go to the drive-in or pull off the side of the road and mum would make lunch in the caravan.

These days, with covid and being much more cashed up, I get delivery almost daily. It's just me and I can't justify buying all the ingredients to make something for one person.

I don’t know what you mean by ordering a sandwich. If you buy a sandwich from Sainsbury’s, you take it away too.

I have had takeaway from Venues I’ve never visited, I’ve never physically taken away
By the gift of internet it came to me

So if they ate it, fine, if not let nature take its course

I've been poor for a loooong time and a food delivery still makes me feel like Liberace. We just had a Chinese and I collected all the uneaten prawn crackers and chicken balls into a tupperware. I'm not THAT frivolous.

"Takeaway is a delivery meal
It’s not greggs,the chippy,or a service station"

Round here I can get a chippy delivered, so is it a takeaway or not?

@MagicSummer

I am over 65 and have NEVER had a takeaway! Don't like Chinese, Indian, Thai, KFC, Macdonalds or fish and chips!

How on earth do you know you don't like them if you've NEVER had one?

@daisypond where I'm from we have sandwich shops that are like delis, they have all different breads, salads, fillings etc and you walk in and they make it up fresh in front of you and you take it away to eat it. A bit like subway but much nicer

Do some posters HAVE to pick apart every bloody thread

The OP was very clear.

Join in or bugger off, don't nit pick over what's takeaway & what's not - FFS

@Toddlerteaplease

I lived overseas in my teens - takeaways for sure, but no deliveries available until I was in my 20's

In my 30's the local Indian knew our order& would just ask if we wanted to change anything. We were working from home on our business, preferred to work than cook several nights a week.

I was only very rarely getting one before Covid, and haven't had a single one or bought anything 'ready to eat' from
Anywhere for a full year now.

Hope you enjoyed it. 🍷

You’ve answered your own question @NuniaBeeswax.delivered It’s a takeaway
Type of food doesn’t denote whether or not it’s a takeaway that’s a moot point

I didn't get a deliver takeaway until my early 20s and that was once or twice. Then not again until I was 36!

"You’ve answered your own question @NuniaBeeswax.delivered It’s a takeaway
Type of food doesn’t denote whether or not it’s a takeaway that’s a moot point"

But if I were to walk into a chippy and take my order away to eat at home that's not a takeaway...?