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!)

Meanwhile we are on our second McDonald’s of the week (please don’t judge we don’t normally have it this often but been a bad week). Where we live there are no take away deliveries as very rural so we’ve never got one delivered either. But I have no self control with going to get one 🤣

Weirdly many years ago I lived in a flat in a town centre with lots of take aways near me. One was in the same building on the ground floor and I never ever got take away yet now I live in the middle of nowhere I cannot get enough 🤣

I've only had takeaway delivered to my home once in my whole life. I had a guest who wanted a pizza.

This made me smile OP. I was at uni with a girl who grew up in an extremely isolated part of Scotland and she had never had food delivered before coming to uni. Having lived in zone 1 all my life, I couldn't share her excitement, but appreciated it.

Where we live deliveries only started about eighteen months ago. Just Eat. I ordered a couple of times when son home from university, so I was 62 when I had my first delivery. Was nice not to go out in the cold but it can take up to an hour or more to get the food.

Laughing at the never in my life faux indignation. Oh grab a pomander dear

@NiceGerbil

Redthefraggle- I know reading the posts is a pita but it was only about the 4th one op clarified the timings!

Yeah, realised after posting she said more like 20 mins; it's been a long week. Was shocked after reading about a delivery driver picking up food orders and seeing the amount of waste and re-used food though. Has put me off using delivery companies for life.

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee

Laughing at the never in my life faux indignation. Oh grab a pomander dear

I don’t see any indignation at all. People are just explaining why they might not have ordered a takeaway.

We always collect our takeaway (if I am allowed to call it a takeaway!!). Hardly ever used to have them but have made it our weekend treat every week since last March.... Sometimes feels like the only thing to look forward to at the minute. All the independent restaurants near us have started takeaway menus so you can get the same restaurant menu at home - it's great!

Well I have a takeaway delivered once in blue moon, but last week I had a kebab delivered by robot, just because I could, so there.

I suggest you reread you’ve missed a direct never in my life quote @daisypond

Almost 60 here and I've never had a takeaway delivered.

On the rare occasions we order a Chinese we've always collected.

@MsRinky

Well I have a takeaway delivered once in blue moon, but last week I had a kebab delivered by robot, just because I could, so there.

A sentence I wasn't expecting to read today.

I made the "never in my life" post and it was clearly a joke. (And nothing to do with not ordering takeaways, so not sure why you're being nasty.)

Stop clutching your pearls, dear.

We always collect our takeaway (if I am allowed to call it a takeaway!!)

You are taking the food away, what else would you call it?

We go and collect takeaways because we don't have deliveroo here and the others take forever, so it's not worth it.

I also don't agree with the deliveroo business model where they charge the restaurant a big cut and then pay someone hardly anything to deliver the food. I don't want any part of that.

@MsRinky how does that work exactly?

My mum calls getting a ready meal from the supermarket a takeaway.

They have an actual takeaway of fish and chips when they're at the seaside.

I would be amazed if they've ever had a delivery!

Sorry if I offended anyone, obviously.

I just found it amusing how much posters were virtue signalling about never eating takeaway food, on the grounds that their pizza or burger was collected not delivered and therefore that somehow magically made it "not a takeaway". It's just really funny when MNers get all pedantic and split hairs like that. Like there's the slightest difference between a pizza ordered in person and the same pizza ordered via an app!

I have no pearls to be clasped or clutched. But I am compelled to comment on hyperbole such as Never in my life

@rosetylersbiggun
No-one is virtue signalling. The OP talked about “ordering a takeaway”. That expression clearly means very different things to different people.

Funny thread for sure.
The never eaten a take away because it’s toxic waste posts

Questioning if it’s a stealth brag (can’t see what’s the gain)

Semantics about what constitutes a takeaway, lunchtime Greggs is a takeaway apparently

I’ve had 4 delivered in the last 7 days I love me an Uber eats had Japanese tonight curry laksa was amazing but gonna have a few weeks break from the takeaways I think!

I grew up in a remote area of the Highlands and didn't have a takeaway until I was 25 and moved to a city, it was glorious! I'm back in my home area so back to no takeaways and I still miss it like mad.

@NiceGerbil

I've had nandos twice in my life and it was rubbish both times.

One of those things that everyone else loves and you are ????

It’s nothing special, I can easily cook better myself at home, and do, most of the time - but I do like flame grilled chicken so I’ll happily have a Nando’s once in a great while (like every few years). It’s quite good when you’re low carbing, as well.

Takeaway is a delivery meal and I note the op says takeaway too
But let’s not descend into the is it dinner or tea debacle Enacted on another thread

We've had a couple of deliveries but we dont get Uber Eats of Deliveroo so it's just our local takeaways