To think that the woman next to me on the train is judging me...

[chocolatesaltyballs22]

....for eating my dinner! (Leon chicken satay box, not very stinky). She keeps side-eyeing me every time I take a mouthful. Am also a tweny by it tipsy after post off-site drinks. It's been a looooong day ( up v early for train to London then full day of meetings).
She's going to be even more enraged when I get the mince pie dessert out in a minute!

I get that your day is busy and sometimes you have to eat all sorts of food on trains but your complete lack of any kind of contrition is what i find hardest to swallow (scuse pun) - people arent 'bastards' cos they dont agree with you.

thankyou for your ruling

You're welcome .

Do they still wear the woolly wigs..?

People are now supposed to be contrite that they eat on a train!

If you’re on public transport where they serve hot food then it’s not surprising that people eat hot food. Although maybe the smelliness is a factor.

Worse on overground trains and buses. Buses the very worst. Chips are not nice on there.

Isn't it weird how delicious, delicious chip smell can actually turn horrible when you smell it in a different place? Really strange how it all works. Ditto even the smoked fish tbh. If someone is cooking a lovely fish pie at home, I might like the smell, but I have to admit that, although it didn't necessarily bother me much when someone cooked their haddock fillet in the microwave at work, it was definitely not a good smell. Weird.

It is pretty anti social to eat entire meals on a train.

What about long-distance journeys with a buffet car or even table service (in first class)?

The Eurostar has nice service in premium wouldn’t skip on that. Usually cheese though iirc

BeatriceTheBeast - go bananas you say?? HOW DARE YOU , i HATE the smell of bananas. Just LOOKING at them makes me vomit all over and fall thrice in a swoon

I’m still curious to know what counts as an inoffensive sandwich. I have a lovely friend who drops crumbs on her top when she eats anything, it’s a running joke. I’m assuming any sort of sandwich would be offensive from her? This is a minefield!

As a side note, just eaten a sandwich in bed for breakfast.

The chip smell on buses was the best. There used to be THE BEST chip shop at the main shopping centre bus stop where I grew up. If someone had chips on the bus I always got some when I got off.

This was when chips meant proper salt and vingered chippy chips, open in paper, not shitty kebab or chicken shop chips in polystyrene boxes.

i have a noise intolerance and hate the noise of chewing/swallowing. It makes me feel like I want to punch them, maybe its driving her mad and shes just trying very hard not to well... punch you ;)

penberrh

I'm so sorry. How insensitive of me! I retract that portion of the post and will say something less likely to cause distress... Go...apples? Pears? Chips?

Chips have gone downhill. Definitely. They used to be amazing. Sorry, I got distracted by the word chips! Chips though...

@UnaCorda that's a bit different to someone on one of the last trains with a Big Mac when they're so pissed they try and put it in their ear!

Dining car - civilised
Piss express - not civilised

inwood, you don't happen to live just west of London do you? I HATE the last train of the evening where all the really drunk people are on their way home. I've seen people vomiting all over the train. Probably penberrh who saw a banana . I also remember a really fucked, huge man who fell on top of me. That wasn't even the last train home, just one of the later ones.

I've moved now, but it used to be the Bath and Bristol bound trains I think... The Reading one is less hideous for some reason.

Oh god I was on a tube last Christmas, not late at all maybe 7pm, and a totally pissed bloke started talking/slurring to me and swaying so that he nearly fell into my lap! The HORROR!

Bloody London public transport! It's probably all fun and games when you're shitfaced in a big crowd, but seriously gross when you're stone cold sober on your way home from work or just a normal night out where nobody gets in a state.

But it's all part of the charm I'm sure . T'is the season and all.

Op if you had attended finishing school in Switzerland you would not dream of eating a curry on the train or being pissed on public transport.
Just saying.

Hi OP. I have been you. We are terrible people and deserve to be judged.

Yuck! Not very British of you to eat on a train. Have a strong word with yourself in the morning.

Apology accepted Beatrice, although obviously done so only in a rather reticent passive aggressive way on account of your ANTI-SOCIALNESS.

Well, obviously. I wouldn't have it any other way .

drunk people, stinky food = train hell. Even worse if the other passengers are sober and/or hungry,
I'd judge you, slurping your smelly food in my ear!

I wouldn't be happy if someone sat next to me munching on some smelly takeaway. I thought it was just etiquette not to take such food on a train?

But in that case, why is there always a buffet car on a train?

@Lizzie0869 several train operating companies don’t serve food nor have a shop onboard so please explain how “there is always a buffet car on a train?” That’s not correct now, is it?

Onboard shops/cafes sell the standard range crisps, confectionery, sandwiches and generic hot food eg a cooked breakfast. Not particularly akin to “smelly takeaway” which would obviously have the unpleasant wafting odours that people are discussing, so not quite sure of your point?