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.

Born in 1960's. We quite often had fish and chips on a Friday or Saturday lunchtime. Neither of my parents would eat 'foreign muck' so in spite of there being a Chinese takeaway at the end of the road, I didn't get to have one until my older brother was buying them for himself - and there was always too much so I got to help him out!

Once a month my df would go out and get fish and chips as a treat. Don’t ever remember anything else. We have take away or go to a restaurant once a week.

Born 71. My DM and stepdad would sometimes have fish n chips but usually when we returned from holidays. Curries and Chinese were occasional too, not regular. We ate out more, from when I was 9 and at proper restaurants.

As a teenager from say 14, I regularly got kebabs, Chinese from the takeaway and ate at the curry house opposite the two main pubs I drank in with friends. Later on when a new posh Chinese restaurant opened locally we’d get Chinese meals from there and similarly from a posher Indian restaurant too.

Never!
Went to McDonald's when it arrived in the 80s
My first Chinese was in China!

40s here. I don’t think I’d ever had a takeaway that wasn’t fish and chips (and that was rare) until we moved to the US when I was 12. We barely ate out either - I remember the novelty of eating at Pizzaland for a friend’s birthday and absolutely loving the whole experience as I’d only really had pub meals, little chef or Wimpy until that point. Moving abroad changed everything overnight as my parents took advantage of the convenience, variety and relative cheapness of takeaways and restaurants while we were getting settled in and never looked back. Well, not until we came back to the UK anyway.

I'm 58 and I've never had a takeaway in my life. My parents were working class and couldn't afford to eat any food that wasn't cooked at home. We ate well though, still do.

We always had fish on a Friday as my mum was brought up Catholic and stuck with the no meat on a Friday thing. It gradually morphed from homemade fish and chips to a takeaway. Then she went totally rogue and gave up the Friday no meat rule and our takeaway switched to Saturday. No idea what we started eating on Fridays😆 Yeah, so once a week, fish and chips. This was late 70's/early 80's. I didn't try Chinese food or pizza until I was old enough to buy my own.

1969 here and only child.
We had a lovely family run fish and chip shop round the corner, so we had fish and chips quite regularly.
I remember going to the Chinese take away once with my dad in the 70's to pick up some food. That was a real treat.
KFC was for my birthdays when mum took me to the cinema. It's not the same now. It's absolutely awful!
We also didn't have an abundance of take away food shops.
When my mum and dad split up, my mum used to take me to a lovely Chinese restaurant in town on a Friday after school, (after we'd been to the market for meat and veg for the weekend). I still remember the smell when you opened the door.
Had my first Mc Donalds when it opened in our town, around 1981.
First donner kebab in 1984/85, first pizza and Indian food in the late 80s.
When I was a child, my mum always cooked our meals fresh from scratch, so when we did have food from elsewhere, it was part of a balanced diet.
If I open my JustEat app now, it brings up over 1,500 outlets that will deliver to me!!! The choice is far too much these days. Nothing is a treat any more.
Looking back, I was very privileged growing up.

Born early 70's. Chinese takeaway once a month (payday!) Didn't eat out until I was at University. McDs didn't come to my (small) city until I was 13, and I had no money anyway!

My mum and dad used to get fish and chips most Fridays because they did a delivery round which took them past a chip shop. I think us kids were fed earlier though so we really only wanted a few chips (never any fish). At secondary school we would get the occasional Chinese takeaway and my parents got an Indian takeaway every few weeks with friends. Again, I didn't really want any. Mcdonalds I got when out with friends at the weekend.

Born early 70s; rarely - fish and chips was the only type of takeaway available and it was a 'high days and holidays' event to have it.

Only fish and chips and df went to the shop to get them. Partly money and also there just weren't all the takeaways that exist now.

On a trip home a couple of years ago, I was a bit concerned with how well my db knew the local kebab person's holiday arrangements.

Born in late 70's and we would get fish and chips with the grandparents. Otherwise, we would get a Chinese once a year, on the anniversary of moving into a house when I was ten.

My mum was a really good cook, and even now, takeaways are not something we do often. (Although I do love it when we do!)

I was born in 1960. There was one Chinese restaurant and one Chinese takeaway plus one Indian restaurant in town but we never had food from there as mum & dad said it was "foreign muck". Very occasionally we would get fish & chips as a treat. I do remember having Vesta curry though - reconstituted "foreign muck" but I loved it !! The Chinese takeaway was always the Chinese tele shop in our house as they always had the tv on on the counter when we drove past ! I think I was about 24 before I went in an Indian restaurant with friends. Probably 32 before we took Chinese takeaway home to mum & dad - sweet & sour chicken balls which they loved !!

I was born in the late 70s. No takeaways at home as far as I remember. We'd go to Wimpy for a birthday meal and then fish and chips if we had a day out at the beach in the summer.

Otherwise meals were eaten at home. I think we did do Pizza Hut once or twice in the 90s but my parents would have had more money then than when I was a kid.

We weren't well off so for our birthday, instead of getting a cake or party we had a takeaway instead. It was great getting to pick what we wanted.

No never apart from chippy chips occasionally. Grew up in the 80's.
As I got older we did go out for the odd curry or chinese.
Still don't have many now as we live where there is no door dash or uber eats etc.
Probably have a local take away once a month or McDonald's if out with my teen DD's.
I'm glad there is no temptation actually as I would love to dial in the odd Maccy breakfast.

Almost never, partly because of rural location, so it was fish and chips once a year when we went to the seaside.

Also, my parents were of the generation that just hadn't been exposed to other cuisines and were probably slightly suspicious of them. Pasta was 'foreign food' to them. I managed to get mum to try some other things in her later years. And she did enjoy them.

1950s born childhood no my mom cooked dinners, teenager i worked in a chip shop at weekends and if there was any fish and chips left at the end of the night i was allowed to take some home, small town in the midlands the chippy was the only tekeout in town then, the chinese was a posh restaurant in the precint,

moved to south London so my kids in the 70s we would have fish and chips on fridays as that was shopping night so i didnt want to cook as well as shop, would take my kids to maccys if we went into town

my grandchildren seem to live on takeaway food

Fish and chips once or twice a month here. Birthdays would be wimpy or Pizza Hut and went to a few friends parties at McDonald's (in the days of someone dressed up as Ronald McDonald at parties) . Very occasionally had a Chinese, but no Indian. Although that might have been due to our unsophisticated tastes!

As a child it was curry, rice and chips once or twice a month. Sometimes a fishcake or battered sausage. If we were really lucky we got a big bottle of limeade or cherryade.
Chinese restaurant once a month from age 5 or 6.
Now it's an Indian takeaway once a month, and curry and chips once a month. Never been to McDonalds; they didn't exist when I was a child so I never developed the habit (and they don't do curry).

I was born in the 80s and we had takeaway all the time. Pizza, chip shop, Chinese, McDonald's, KFC.

Only chips. And obviously, not delivered.

But I grew up in rural cornwall in the 80s, I doubt there were many other options.

Moved to a city when I was 12, I was invited to a friends house when I was 13 and they were having Chinese food delivered. I didn’t know what Chinese food was, let alone that you could get it delivered. Her parents took the piss out of me as I didn’t know what anything on the menu was. They were aghast and found it hilarious.

We were poor and my dad was tight, take aways we’re never an option.

I made up for it when I left school at 16 and got a job, all the pizzas, Indians etc I had delivered them 🤣

I’m 44.

I'm a similar age. We had chips from a chip van, no fish. McDonald's or pizza was for birthdays. I went to pizza hut the first time for a friend's birthday in year 6.

Hardly ever. We had fish and chips if we were up north visiting grandparents (so maybe twice a year) and we had a Little Chef or Happy Eater (so not take out) twice a year on Mother's Day and Father's Day!