McDonald’s in a hospital waiting room

[Schuyler]

AIBU to think I don’t care how hungry you are, you don’t eat McDonald’s in a hospital waiting room? There are 2 adults eating it, so surely one can pop out and then they swap.

P.S. do you think I can ask for a chip?

Some people cannot function if they are not munching on something every 15 minutes of the day

That’s unfair. They might not have eaten all day.

I have had food brought to me when I am on the ward, when waiting for a bed.
Sometimes it’s either that or starve because of various reasons.

Last time I was there I had a takeaway delivered.
Other times visitors brought me things.
The food in the hospital is optional. I don’t select it so I’m not wasting it. But I still need to eat. There’s only so far an hospital can cater to people’s food requirements.

Parents of children who are in hospital have mentioned this for years when they talk about how much it costs. Relatives of loved ones again the cost.

I cannot understand why people have an issue with patients on wards eating food.

Whenever I take my mum for a hospital check-up, I get her a hot chocolate and get her something to eat (normally take cheese & cracker or biscuit or something) which she has whilst we are in the waiting room. We normally leave home over an hour before her appointment time and her appointment is normally running very late. Then we normally have to go for blood tests so another long wait and then the journey home. Due to a medical condition, she has to eat every 2 hours ideally.

I must have a shit sense of smell because I would describe MacDonalds or other food like that as ‘absolutely stinking’ to me that means like literally a poo in front of me or standing next to a blocked drain or something, I’d never describe a perfectly normal item such as a burger as stinking?! I know people on here are weird and think half an avocado on a piece of toast is an indulgent treat best saved for the weekends but I can’t get wound up about people eating fast food

My DS was in hospital recently and we had to sit in a waiting room for 9 hours, while they tried to find him a bed. I popped out several times to get him whatever food I could (he's 17 so eats like a horse).

If there'd been a mcdonald's then he would have loved it.

Don't judge people so harshly.

Would not describe

I think that eating in waiting rooms is common unless you are a baby or a toddler with breadsticks.

Very selfish and bad manners in a hospital waiting room! I was rushed to hospital on sunday and had to wait around and thankfully people in other beds relatives only got them vending machine food like chocolate and sweets. If i had smelt cooked food i would have been vommiting everywhere.

Don't see a problem with it at all.

Be funny if someone projectile vomited over their takeaway 🤮

We did it once. DS fell and slipped walking down a mountain in Austria. Checked and they felt it was sprained. Two days later we flew back and it became clear that the chances were that it was a slight break not a sprain.

Landed at 5:30 and went straight to A&E. DH went home unpacked and came back at 8 at which point we hadnt (a) being x rayed or (b) eaten much all day. So yes he went to McDonalds. We finally got home with an arm plastered up at 10pm

How come it doesn't make people sick when they are in McDonalds or a fish and chip shop or eating it at home or in the car from a drive through. I don't think mcdonalds is too stinky and can understand why someone might eat one in public. The only thing that would bother me is that I would probably want one too.

When I was in having DC2, I had to share a room with a woman. Her boyfriend (who she spent the previous night slagging off in a LOUD phone call to her family) brought her in fish and chips which they ate in our shared room, rather than the dining area.

They washed it down with lots of fizzy juice, and then both started burping at maximum volume.

I was very pleased to get out of there.

There's food and then there's food.

Smells of all descriptions, good and bad are part and parcel of mixing with other people. I love McDonalds and don’t find the smell offensive. My DP can’t stand coffee or peanut butter. Just the smell of either makes him heave. If I have them (and I often do) I enjoy them when he’s out or eat in a separate room and brush my teeth before kissing him. He doesn’t expect other people in public places to abstain from eating them because he dislikes the smell.

I'm one of those god awful people who had a relative bring me in KFC after I gave birth to DD. Wasn't offered tea and toast and some how they managed to completely miss me off for the dinner round (now hospital food stinks of dog food!) so sod that, I had a chicken burger and enjoyed every minute of it.

Would I bring food to an everyday appointment, no I would eat first. But in hospitals it's not always that simple.

I had to eat rice pudding I took with me to hospital one evening, I had blood sugar problems and had to do it or I would have fainted. Maybe they just couldn't wait?

I'm pregnant and have hyperemesis at the moment - most food smells make me retch but at the same time I have to eat little and often or I feel worse. I went to my 12 week scan a few days ago with a cheese toastie in a bag which I kept nibbling in the waiting room. I did feel bad in case anyone else was affected by the smell but I had to eat! And that is one of the very few things I can keep down at the moment. So ideally I wouldn't eat in a waiting room / bus / confined space by sometimes needs must!

I’ve eaten in outpatients before. I have to, if I don’t then I’m light headed or just plain starving because we are there for hours. I don’t get a McDonald’s because there isn’t one close by but I eat tuna sandwiches and maybe some crisps etc. I don’t really care what people think if I’m honest, eating is a part of everyday life and it doesn’t stop because you need to attend a hospital.

Also taken food to appointments. Sometimes life happens and you cannot eat beforehand and you're starving. If I'm late for the appointment it gets cancelled. So grab a takeaway and go. Isn't that the purpose of a takeaway?
You cannot stop a person eating food when they are hungry. You can be jealous, but cannot stop them. (Except if the person has something like Pica or Prader-Willis syndrome).

DP brought me in a KFC after I had DD, I loved him for it.

I'm only sensitive to smells when I'm pregnant.

A smell of food in a restaurant, where people have specifically gone to eat, and where everyone around you is also eating, is completely different from having it inflicted on you somewhere where you have gone to see a doctor. You might be just ill, you might be feeling nervous and worried and you might be nil by mouth.

Everyday we are told we must be understanding and tolerant and mustn't judge people and must make allowances etc etc, and this is totally abused by a few people who don't give a flying fuck about how their behaviour might impact on those around them - I want to do this, if you don't like it tough.

When I was a child people wouldn't have dreamt of eating smelly food in a hospital waiting room, it is anti-social, disgusting and rude - and if that makes me sound like an old fart well, that's fine by me. 🤷‍♀️

An inpatient eating a takeaway or someone who has been 9 hours in A+E is different than an outpatient waiting room, though. I would expect almost everybody to be able to refrain from eating a full meal in an outpatient waiting room even if they had been there for a good few hours.

Ok I accept I may be unreasonable but I think I’ve been quite clear. This was a standard outpatient, non emergency clinic. It was neither a ward nor an A&E.
Many foods (fish, fried chips and other heated things) do smell in a warm, squashed waiting room.
I was just pondering, not having an emotional breakdown. I am was also hangry.