to drive a 12 mile round trip for Chinese food?

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Have the most insane (PMT-fuelled) craving for takeaway. Specifically the absolutely amazing Chinese takeaway near my DP's house, 6 miles away.

WIBU to drive there just to get takeaway?

The only thing putting me off at the moment is the fact that I don't have a microwave to reheat it if it goes cold on the journey home 🤔.

Put it in the footwell at the passengers side and blast it with the foot heater.

Another country bumpkin here who would never have takeaway if 6 miles was prohibitive.

How long does it take to drive 6 miles? Less than 10mins I'd imagine? I'd do it but then I've wanted to drive 100m/1.5hrs just to go to my old local dirty chicken shop.

We have to drive more than 6 miles to get anything! Just take a cool bag and shove it in there (clearly with no cool packs!) it'll keep it lovely and warm.

We live in the middle of nowhere and bring pizzas etc home to eat from 50 miles away - sometimes 80 miles. 6 miles away we'd still be on our property.

Well build yourselves a takeaway and enrich the lives of your neighbours

6 miles? So at 30mph it would take 12 mins?

6 miles is no big deal. Go!

I did a 20 mile round trip last night for pizza! We’re too far out in the sticks for delivery. It shouldn’t have been quite as far but I got halfway there and there was a road closed so I had to divert. Wrapped pizza boxes in my coat and they were still nice and toasty when I got home! We do have closer takeaways but I’d promised the DCs a treat and that’s what they chose.

Yes go! I live in the arse end of nowhere in the Highlands and have on more then one occasion driven over two hours one way to Inverness purely to get a burger king or a subway 🤣

Hope you're on your way! Our nearest takeaway is 45km away. Yesterday we drove 3 hours each way to spend 3 hours in a mall! Different nationalities. Definitely have different distance perceptions. 6 miles here in Canada is next door 😂😂

6 miles is nothing woman, go and get that take away!

Chinese can be very hit and miss so in my experience so if you know one that is guaranteed to be nice, you’ve got to go to it.

Not quite the same thing but I brought ice cream home from a holiday in Cornwall because it was fancy and I was too tight to leave it behind. Wrapped in newspaper, packed with ice blocks in a cool bag. It was still frozen 3 hours or so and 160 miles later. I reckon your takeaway will be FINE . DO IT!

It's a 32 mile round trip to my nearest takeaway and 15 miles to somewhere I can buy wine [cries]

Needless to say no one delivers and Uber eats is unheard of.

6 miles is nothing. Chinese stays warm for ages. It will be totally fine when you get home.

My closest takeaway is more than 6 miles away. I Drive it all the time.

You can also pack it in a insulated bag- the ones you'd normally use for keeping stuff cool.

YANBU. My nearest Chinese takeaway is a 24 mile round trip by main road, (16 by back roads). Also the nearest chippy and kebab shop too. Nowhere around here delivers. if you want Dominoes etc its a 50 mile round trip.

I don't get takeaways very often for that reason, but if I do then I take a cool bag, and put it on the floor with the heater on full blast.

We live rurally and that’s the distance we drive for any takeaway, YANBU.

I’ve driven more than six miles for food before- it was a lovely Indian mixed tikka grill, well worth the extra time it took
To get there.

Did you go

So it would appear every Mumsnetter lives in the Scottish Highlands, or the wilds of Northumberland, to judge from the “I live 25 miles away from the nearest Chinese takeaway!” comments.

For the rest of us (the 95% of us who don’t live in the wilds of nowhere), 8 miles is the distance from Camden Town to Canning Town. There’s 1,001 Chinese takeaways (and 10,001 takeaways of all types) between those two, so it is unreasonable to drive through all that just to get your special favourite. A Chinese is, at the end of the day, just a Chinese: don’t clog up our atmosphere driving your car for that. Especially if your favourite Chinese is 200 yards from DP’s house; go into the shop, order a double and eat it with DP. If DP is not at home, 1) why aren't you living with him, 2) why hasn't he given you keys to his house?

In fact the reports on here of driving ten miles for a Chinese disgust me more than anything; sod the atmosphere, sod the petrol pollution, you fancied a slightly better Chinese (what is the real difference? A Chinese is a Chinese! They're all the same!) than the one down the road. Any wonder Government action is needed against this sort of nonsense?

I neeeeeeed to know if that Chinese was purchased!!

I'm currently awaiting eagerly a Sainsbury's delivery so I can crack on with cooking a lamb chilli con carne with tacos for dinner.

If it doesn't arrive by 6pm on the dot I'm ordering a Chinese after this thread!

I live rural so that's the distance to my (not very good) closest Chinese! Go for it!

you do know that 95% of the population don't live in london, there are plenty of places in Shropshire Hertfordshire Staffordshire etc that are 5-10 miles from town you don't have to go to the highlands (were granted it maybe 40+ miles) or at come rest and be thankful in Argyll where the road was shut due to landslide and the nearest detour is an 83 miles trip

Our nearest Chinese is 7 miles away! YANBU