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!

don't try so hard to be funny, it's not working and it is really boring. Maybe nobody dares telling you in real life, but it really is.

Who - me, Pancakes? Don't be daft, in RL my friends are too busy smiling & laughing to tick me off. So well done you!

I was drunk on a train a couple of months back eating a full picnic lunch playing the prodigy on my phone doo doo-ing to it. I did get the carriage doo doo-ing with me though! (And it was a very late train!)

Oh - one of those. 🙄

Eating hot smelly food on trains should be banned. Plus most of the people doing it seem to leave their disgusting litter on the floor.

It’s a typical hazard of train travel now - people rustling , chomping and talking loudly on their phones .

Joyfulhippo - i had no idea that was how coffee drinkers were perceived! Who knew?

@bengalcat, don’t forget people watching utube and films on their phones with no head phones.

I was on a short flight from UK to Amsterdam and the guy next to me bought a Burger King meal in a bag with him. I was not impressed, but it wasn't as smelly as I expected and he ate it quietly, so it was fine.

@messolini9 I think you're funny - not like @andpancakesforbreakfast who is clearly uptight (and never travels for work, clearly)

chocolatesaltyballs22
I wasn't trying to be funny

I'd rather be uptight than have no manners like you 🤷 even if you think your status of international business traveller puts you above the rest of us (or was it the fact that you took the train to London once or twice? )

surely international business travellers don’t eat Burger King on trains. That’s not what the corporate card is for😂

You can't pretend to be annoyed by people's music on trains but think it's acceptable to eat your stinky food and no one can be annoyed by the smell, when both examples are just as rude.. it doesn't add up, does it?

Personally I think it's partly jealousy from women who don't work or travel and genuinely never eat food outside their own homes, and partly being raised with old fashioned ideas about etiquette (and possibly a bit of internalised misogyny).

No. Not in my case. I suspect not in others either. I work full-time. I travel a lot for work. I eat out in restaurants or hotels. Men or women eating more than a coffee of a sandwich on a train or bus is revolting.

I was raised with certain expectations of consideration towards others. In fact eating in public- the street, on transport etc was absolutely the epitome of common and not done. I don’t think the shovelling food whilst moving has improved society. It is a hedonistic, please yourself culture which I believe is not for the greater good.

Threads like this are what the word snowflake was invented for. It's common to eat on public transport? Couldn't care less, if I'm hungry I'll eat. If people glare at me I'll glare back. If they spoke to me I'd probably laugh.
Honesty if someone eating on a train is the worst thing you experience then your life is pretty good.
Remember you can always move!

Business travel is rarely a hot meal on a train it’s
Long haul business class - nice
Short haul BA usually cutting it to the wire no food on the way, avoiding carby client lunch maybe a really nice meal if overnight in European city
Eurostar premium - serves wine and cheese

That was re jealous of travel thing

I only do Leeds to London travel, a couple of times a month. Hardly glam, but tiring.

Honesty if someone eating on a train is the worst thing you experience then your life is pretty good.

This definitely. Particularly after using public transport in Africa. Hot, sweaty and overcrowded.

I think its awful you sat and ate such stinky food on a train, as a travel sickness person any one eating that stuff would make me throw up, what would you say if she threw up next to you?

I'd rather be uptight than have no manners like you

& nobody is disputing your perfect liberty to be so Pancakes, you don't need to keep telling everyone ... or stick around on a thread that clearly isn't enjoyable for you.

Meanwhile, the mannerless sods are enjoying a few laughs, nobody's forcing you to share them, so carry on being sour & repetitive if you wish but it's probably not helping your RL moodstate, so why keep bothering?

it doesn't add up, does it?

You are correct Pancakes, it doesn't.
Because your basic premise is flawed -

You can't pretend to be annoyed by people's music on trains but think it's acceptable to eat your stinky food and no one can be annoyed by the smell, when both examples are just as rude

• in that the general consensus appears to be that the Leon(?) chicken thing OP ate is not in fact a stinky food.

So that's a fail, but you are of course at liberty to come up with a fresh hypothesis, despite this maybe not being a thread that's adding anything to your RL wellbeing.

I honestly wouldn't care what the person next to me thought or if they were judging me, I don't know them & nothing is stopping them from getting up & moving.

(and never travels for work, clearly)

Possibly not Salty, as appears to believe that international business travellers enjoy "status", when in fact it's an exhausting pain in the arse.

On the basis that Pancakes thinks 1pm to 9pm equates to something between 30 minutes and 2 hours I don’t think her posts need to be given much credence Messolini :D