Did you have many takeaways growing up?

[Pixiesgirl]

I was born 81 and one of five and I think we were pretty poor. I remember having fish and chips occasionally and sometimes if parents went to the pub they would bring home chow mein and chips from the local Chinese.

I think it was my older siblings who introduced McDonald's and pizza when I was about 10 (I wasn't a fan haha). Thee seem to be multitudes more takeaway options now.

I'm in my 40s & growing up we'd have fish & chips maybe once a month?
There was a Wimpy in our town & that was a special treat.
By my teens we had a KFC & again that was maybe a few times a year.
Didn't go to a McDonald's till I was in my teens with friends - nearest was in a local city.
Didn't have any Indian, Chinese etc takeaways that I knew of.
Takeaways now are much more regular - maybe once a week?

I was born in the 70s. We had fish and chips once in a blue moon. I didn't try Chinese or Indian food until I was an adult. My mum simply wouldn't have allowed us to have anything exotic/foreign - garlic was completely forbidden in the house and she would make all sorts of ridiculous noises if she caught a whiff of anything spicy.

She had all sorts of problems with food and eating so I do wonder if her disgust at foreign food was just another way to avoid eating normally.

We had fish and chips once a week - I was born mid 70s but the takeaways I remember are from the 80s. We never had any other takeaways. I bought some myself with pocket money when I was out and about with friends around age 12/13. Which is also around the same time I first had a Mcdonalds, because there wasn't one where we lived until then.

Born in the 70s. Very occasionally had fish and chips. Normally on Xmas Eve or a birthday. Didn’t actually have pizza or Chinese until
I was about 15!

Never as a family. And we never went out to eat. Born early 70s, and second oldest of 4. My DB and I used to get pocket money from our Nana on a Saturday (me 20p and him 50p because he was a boy 🙄) and sometimes on our way home we'd get a bag of chips each out of our pocket money. That was my only takeaway experience as a child. Must have been very late 70s or early 80s as my Nana died in '85.

My DPs still don't have takeaways and will very rarely go out for a meal. They both grew up in very poor families and my DM in particular is very frugal despite them being financially comfortable.

Born 1985. Occasional fish and chips - I remember having them the evening after we moved house, for example, or on holiday. I remember having takeaway pizza the day my granny died. We might have had Chinese a couple of times when I was a teenager, but I was fussy and didn't like most of it anyway.

Mind you we very rarely went out to eat at restaurants either. McDonalds every now and then, I do remember a childhood birthday party there. Maybe the odd carvery, or the kind of place where you were offered a glass of orange juice or half a grapefruit as a starter!

Chippy tea on a Thursday in front of TOTP and Monkey Magic. Was grand

My late father was sadly a racist, and didn't trust "forrin food", so I didn't eat proper curries or Chinese food until I left home.

I definitely had fish and chips. I lived by the sea, do there were loads of nice chippies!

I grew up in NI in the 80s/90s and we didn't have a McDonald's till the early nineties I think. Belfast might have had one before.

I rode horses twice a week and often got a KFC after that with my friend and her mum.

I don't think my kids have more takeaways than I did tbh. I think younger people with more disposable income eat out / have takeaways a lot in London though. Less space at home (generally), so more inclined to order food in or go out I think. It isn't necessary if you live in a family house

I’m heading into my late 40s and we only really had fish and chips once or twice a year. My dad would bring it in on his way home from work. Pizza maybe several times in my whole childhood and these amazing burgers from an American diner very very occasionally. Wimpy just for a friend’s birthday and McDonald’s if we had a day out in London (probably once a year).

I didn’t have a Chinese until I met DH at 18!

My DC couldn’t believe it when I said I only went to a restaurant twice in my whole childhood!

Grew up abroad, takeaways weren’t a thing but in the uk on holiday (every two years!) we occasionally had take-away fish and chips in the 60s. We would also eat out in Chinese or Indian restaurants.
Also, as Londoners, pie and mash was a huge treat when we were in the UK. You could get it to take away but we usually ate in the restaurant at wooden bench-tables, with beautiful tiled walls and sawdust on the floor. (For the eel bones…)
Abroad we had a curry lunch every Friday at the company social and leisure centre.

Grew up in 80s. Fish and chips I remember even when young. A few times at home but mostly on holidays.

More so in 90s when I was sent down chippy to get them.

Didn’t do McDonald’s or anything unless we’d go to visit family up country as none down here. We had a wimpy which I only went to if with a friend.

Mostly remember Asda opening and going there and getting a chicken and baguette to eat on beach for tea.

I was born in the 70s and we were quite poor. Had fish and chips maybe three times a year. I don't remember ever getting any other takeaways. We hardly ever ate out either.
Such a contrast to how we live today!

We had fish and chips once a week and Chinese/ Indian takeaway on birthdays. Actually have fewer takeaways now, certainly not once a week. I guess though we might get a ready meal from the supermarket sometimes instead. Mainly cook from scratch though.

Born mid 70s. We didn't have takeaways but ate out very regularly. At least 2-3 times a week. My mum didn't cook.

McDonald's every Friday night as a take away without fail.

If my parents had people round then we would get an Indian takeaway.
Maybe once a month.

Rarely - fish and chips maybe every 6 weeks and Chinese was only once a year maybe twice, and that would have mostly been when I was older. Things began to change late 80's more places opened up for starters. I did get sneaky spring rolls though, my friend was the daughter of the Chinese takeaway owners!

First ever pizza was watching live aid - I was 11

No. I don't remember ever. It just wasn't something we did. Plus there was no takeaways, no Chinese, no Indian, near us. I'll have to check with my mum, because now I write it down that seems odd.

Hardly ever, the occasional fish and chips when on holiday with Grandmother, so less than once a year.

Nope. Never had takeaways and very, very rarely eat them now.

I find when I do eat Chinese or Indian or kebab shop they are tasteless and unsatisfying. I would like to try some true really good takeaways but where are they?

I grew up in the 70s/80s. We had 'chippy tea' reasonably regularly - no fish as it was too expensive, usually just chips and peas/gravy/curry sauce. Chinese was more like a birthday treat.

McDonalds didn't exist until I was about 10. I can remember the first time we had a delivery pizza around the mid 80s. It was so new they didn't even know how to make it properly! We received a pizza base with sliced tomato (no sauce) and cheese on top. No-one was impressed and it was years til we got another one

I've just remembered that kebab places started springing up when I was in my teens. If we'd money, *we'd go there. The chips were better than the pathetic stringy fries they served in McDs and the kebabs were pretty tasty to our undiscerning palates. Also, they had a jukebox which played music videos.

*By "we" I mean me and my friends. I'm not sure if my parents ever had kebabs.

Fish and chips from the chip shop, Friday lunchtimes. Very, very occasionally I'd have Chinese takeaway with parents. I'd never heard of McDonalds until I was 18.

We did go to the chippy fairly regularly, but the standard order was chips & peas all round. Maybe with a battered sausage if you were lucky. Fish was too expensive.

I grew up in the 70's, and I'd say we had a takeaway 3 times a year at most - one chinese, and two fish and chips. We ate out once or twice a year, but I think that was in the 80's when pubs started doing food.