to think it's a bit rank to be walking down the High Street scoffing fish and chips at 10:47am?

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Clarsy.

Anyone had jetlag from being in Australia at this time of year? Time difference is 11 hours so almost direct opposite.

So you get up in the morning and think, glass of wine!

No change there then

heifer is a female dairy cow.
that's why it's an insult

I really don't see why it's bad. People do much worse things in public round our way .

Maybe the person had just finished working overnight or something?

I have been known to eat pizza for breakfast.

I think eating in the street is common.

well for one I feel like I can use that phrase because i myself am overweight!
I was merely trying to point out that if a scruffy looking overweight person was seen scoffing fish & chips that early in the morning most people would think it was RANK! whereas if it was a smart dressed executive person you saw you prob wouldn't bat an eyelid.

I'm only saying what most people would think!

I think the issue here is eating anything on the streets, not so much what they were eating or the time of day.

But i have to say that if I'd just finished a night shift and was starvin like Marvin then I wouldn't have had the willpower to wait until I got home/back to my car and would have tucked in as I walked along.

Thanks for the spelling correction Zukiecat, I will be sure to get it right in future!:o

Is it wierd that I can actually smell fish and chips now I'm reading about them on here????

What about people sitting outside cafes on 'pavement tables' - is that still seen as common?

Scrap that - somebody in the adjoining office has just been heating up their lunch in the microwave

Yum! I'd love some fish and chips right now. And I wouldn't care if I had to eat them in the street.

Fish and chips are best eaten from the wrappings walking home in the cold. They aren't nice at all taken home and put on a plate. It's the law!

No. They're not walking down the street. they are dining al fresco. erm. sort of. does outside area of a cafe count as al fresco or does it have to be picnic in the park?

Not so many years ago, it actually was, seriously now, considered common to eat in the street. Seen to be very bad manners indeed.

Now it's a symptom of life on the run.

Dawnyann - what does you being overweight have to do with you insulting other people? Just because you are overweight, it does not give you the right to describe someone else who is overweight as a 'big fat heffer' - call yourself that if you want, but not other people.

I was merely trying to point out that if a scruffy looking overweight person was seen scoffing fish & chips that early in the morning most people would think it was RANK! whereas if it was a smart dressed executive person you saw you prob wouldn't bat an eyelid

Look - see what you did there - you managed to get your point across without being rude & insulting. It wasn't too hard was it :)

Eating in the street is common.

I'm off down the chippy now :)

And I am not common!

My granny was a snob about such things but then again her father was 'trade' so she tended to be a bit overanxious about such things.....

I have not eaten in the street, since I was laughed and pointed at whilst eating a kebab.

Eating in the street can be dignified.

If you're an italian and consuming your espresso and pastry whilst en route to one's office in central Rome.

Not so much when you're wolfing a Greggs steak bake and can of Rola Cola in a shopping precinct in Dudley

My name is LadyFirenze, and I am

Chippinginmistress - im not an insulting person by nature (believe it or not) but things like that don't offend me because I have a strange sense of humour so i forget that everyone is not like me.
I apologise to anyone i may have offended.

Hecate

I was always brought up to think that eating, drinking and smoking in the street was common.

I never do either of the first two and rarely indulge in the third unless I'm particularly stressed purely because it was drummed into me over the years. I don't, however, judge others for doing so as it doesn't bother me.

a bit common and stupid

When I go to a local shop for a paper in the morning - about 7.30am - there is virtually always someone buying a can of lager or abottle of cider. Now that is rank!

I eat in the street sometimes but I hate seeing other people doing it.

Therefore they're all common but I'm just hungry and in a rush

Why would you care? Really? It never ceases to amaze me what people get their knickers in a knot about.