to feed my child a sandwich off the tube floor

[JollyGiraffe]

I was on the tube earlier and a family with 2 children (aged around 7-9) were sitting next to me.

Mum got out a bag of sandwiches (ham and cheese) and gave one to the younger child, who was messing around and being silly and dropped the sandwich on the floor.

Oh well, no harm done, mum has a whole bag of sandwiches to replace it with! Or so I thought....

Mum picked up the sandwich, put the 2 halves back together and handed it back to the child who started eating it

I know I'm strict about hygiene, but surely this is disgusting...or totally normal? Who knows what's been on that tube floor...

FYI, the sandwich landed filling side down and was there for about 7 seconds, if that helps you decide.

But of course we have to accept that this may have been the only food they had all day and it was that sandwich or nothing .

In that case, I would have ditched whatever filling touched the ground and eaten the rest and if really desperate, washed the ham under the tap and eaten that too but only if really desperate dire straights times.

Watching a theatre show with my 2DD and they drop one of the boxes of popcorn on the floor. I swept what I could back into the box and took it away from them. Halfway through the show I feel something touching my leg. Two children (aged roughly 6 and 7, so not wild toddlers) from the seats behind were under my cinema style seat and eating the popcorn off the floor. I turned round to see if the mother had noticed. She looked and me and raised her eyebrows and said “it’s okay, we live on a farm” and let them get on with it.

Peanut butter and human skin cells - yummy!

Spam, there's always that one person who thinks that no one else has anything to worry about.....yawn.....

I think you'd be better off lightening up.

its ok we live on a farm

yes Barbara it might not have been so bad if they'd peeled the ham off and just eaten the bread and cheese that hadn't touched the floor!

I am fully understanding of the fact that many people struggle to get by. However, I believe it would be far worse to risk your child getting severely ill and ending up in hospital from a bug off a tube floor than skipping their snack before a meal out.

It sounds awful but if you were on your last £ then maybe you would need to.... the child will be fine they are hardy.

No no no no no no no no.

I've been known to eat stuff I've dropped on pub floors and pavements but even I think off the floor on the tube is a step too far, even when I was homeless and eating other peoples left overs there was a line.