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.

Same. But I was born in the 1960s.

I've been thinking about this lately with all the talk about UPF and takeaways. I'm a similar age but not from the UK but I don't think takeaways were really a thing except pizza and you had to pick it up. We got one maybe every few months.

Born in the 50s, we never had takeaway at home. My Mum cooked lovely traditional meat and 2 veg dinners . The nearest to a takeaway was a couple of times a year at the seaside we’d have a bag of chips. I remember as a young teenager discovering the Vesta ready meal of chow mein and crispy noodles and loved it. I was surprised to see it still available a few years ago. I bought one hoping for a trip down memory lane. It was disgusting 🤮

Born in the 70’s. We had fish and chips if we went to the seaside, so probably once or twice a year.
We ate out a bit though, my favourite Italian restaurant used to have a trolley with all the deserts on they wheeled to the table! Loved it!

Born in 1980. Fish and chips the odd Friday. In the 90's the occasional doner kebab where I would always have a beef and tomato pot noodle instead as I didn't like them , I remember my parents having Chinese maybe once a year.
Never went out for meals, it just wasn't a thing we did.

Hardly ever, once a year from memory. My mum used to get them for herself though once we were in bed. We usually had microwave meals or oven ready meals from the freezer 🤢
When we did get one it was fish and chips and my brother and I had to have sausage in batter with chips as we weren’t allowed fish (too expensive)!

Borm early 80s. We had a takeaway every Saturday night whilst watching Blind Date and all the rest of it. We were pretty poor, I'd never really thought about it before, but we only get a takeaway once or month or so now for both health and cost reasons even though we're more comfortably off than my parents were.

My parents have upped their takeaways to twice a week!

1970's we had Fish & Chips maybe every 2 /3 months when my parents got paid.

Born in mid 70's
Fish and chips every Friday
Indian takeaway (chicken Korma) maybe twice a year on special occasions

Pizza/Chinese just didn't exist where we were until late 80's. When the pizzeria opened in the high street it wasn't allowed for being too expensive. I had to pay for it out of my own pocket money

Similar when I was old enough to go to the main city with friends was the first and only times I had McDonalds. Paid with my own money and my parents were very sneery about me 'wasting' money on it.

Born 1964. Occasional fish and chips. First Chinese in my teens.

Where I lived there was only a chip shop then another opened, and a Chinese take away. It was rare to get one though and a big treat. We didnt have McDonald’s or anything like that there was a wimpy in nearest bigger town but I didn’t have McDonald’s until I was mid/late teens. I think wimpy changed into Burger King in our town - same building. Far north of Scotland so far from big cities etc

No I didn't have many takeaways when I was younger. I suppose money was tight. We use to get McDonald's as a treat.
Now I'm older I can't stop eating takeaway 😳😳

I was born in the late 70s. We were having a takeaway every Friday by the time I can recall but we weren't in the UK. We had Pizza Hut delivered, we picked up Chinese and Indian but I didn't have fish and chips until we returned to the UK.

I don't remember any Mexican food, kebabs or Thai food.

Never.

I remember probably about half a dozen Chinese takeaways in my entire childhood, but Dad would sometimes go to the chippy on a Friday so Mum didn't have to cook.

Maybe once a fortnight we'd get a bag of chips and have it with bread and butter. Occasionally we’d get a sausage with it. On our birthday we’d get chicken fried rice and chips (shared between the family). There weren’t any other takeaways back then apart from the chippy. Where I lived all chippies were Chinese.

I remember one time when my brothers and I were staying with my wealthy aunt and uncle, and we got a Chinese takeaway. My uncle came back with about five different meals plus sides and starters. We’d never seen (or tasted) anything like it in our lives! We thought they’d won the pools.

I was 11 years old the first time I ate in a pub/restaurant and about the same age when I first had a McDonalds.

Very very rarely and it was a chippy

Fish & Chips about 3 times a year

None at all.

I grew up in 80s Ireland (in a city). There were some takeaways, obviously, but the concept of 'getting a takeaway' just didn't exist, eg pizzas or Chinese. We'd no McDonalds or anything like that (though the Irish version, Supermacs, did come on the scene).

It changed a lot in the 90s, and I certainly got takeaways as a student / in my early 20s.

Now, in my 40s, I never get takeaways. I don't like them, at all, and also think they are ridiculously expensive.

Fish and chips on days out

Then Indian restaurants when we were a bit older

80s kid

I remember pizza and Chinese maybe once a month in my teens so during the 90s.

Nothing in the 80s as I recall. Maybe McDonalds occasionally with friends’ families (my mum was very anti 😆) but we ate in rather than take away?

Early 50’s child and apart from the very occasional fish and chips I don’t think any other type of takeaway existed!

Omg I can smell wimpy if I think hard enough, and can taste their banana milkshake!

Born late 70s - we didn't tend to have takeaways because we kept a kosher house (though we weren't always kosher outside the house). Fish and chips or vegetarian Indian very occasionally, I think that was it. My mum was mostly a SAHM when we were kids so always just cooked.

We always had fish and chips on Saturday lunch times because Mum washed all the bedding and dried and remade beds and with 5 DC it took her ages plus Mum and Dads bed too. So Mum didn't cook on Saturday and Dad fetched the F&C's.