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!

International travel is not status and can be a tiring pain in the arse there were some good parts for sure

Anyway back to point you can’t ‘have a word’ with someone eating on a train as a pp put it

Besides there are multiple places to buy food in train stations with minimal seats, all for people to take it with them, usually on a train

I think it's a bit antisocial to eat on public transport. If the carriage isn't full she could just move though I guess.

My stomach grumbling after not eating for several hours is probably more antisocial though kindness Do you avert your eyes when the buffet trolley passes through the train or when you get your free cooked breakfast in 1st?

Or what about meals being served during aeroplane journeys? They're even more cramped.

@Barney60 and not eating for extended periods of time can trigger a migraine for me. Your travel sickness does not trump my migraines.

messolini9

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

the "general consensus" being only your own opinion, it doesn't make you correct in the slightest. We'll have to disagree on that one, as well as everything else.

Well done on boasting about your own "international traveler status" though

andpancakesforbreakfast Considering you were telling me off earlier for swearing at a poster (which I didn't actually do), you haven't exactly showered yourself in glory with your passive aggressive comments aimed at other posters on this thread 🙂 (see what I did there with the passive aggressive smiley face 🙂🙂🙂🙂)

You're very entertaing, pancakes. Haahaa. Don't feed it, people.

Amazed you have time in between renovating those incredible 5 bedrooms that look like they came straight out of a hotel.*

If it was next to me, you would not have been looked at. You would have been spoken to.

Sure you would have 😂😂😂 Best post of the thread! G'wan, tell us what you have said. 😂😂😂

G'wan, tell us what you have said

"Sharing is caring"

@andpancakesforbreakfast well, a lot of us have been entertained by your posts, but you've only succeeded in sounding petty. People will continue to eat on trans, especially on long journeys where food is sold.

Pancakes, are you having such a busy day it is impacting your comprehension? Because -
the "general consensus" being only your own opinion

• no, 'general consensus' means all the PP who actually know what a chicken Leon thing smells like, & have commented here that it's not stinky. If I had meant my own opinion I would have said so, because I have the benefit of understanding what the words 'general consensus' mean. Hence the rest of the phrase you quoted but don't seem to have taken in - "appears to be". I don't have an opinion on the smelliness or otherwise of a chicken Leon, as I have never knowingly met one. Have you?

We'll have to disagree on that one, as well as everything else.
Will we?
How can I disagree with you on a matter I have no opinion on?
As per reasoning above, I have no opinon & I'm not yet convinced that you do either, as I don't know if you have ever smelled a chicken Leon or not.

Well done on boasting about your own "international traveler status" though grin grin grin
Sorry Pancakes, another own-goal, as 1) I didn't 2) I'm not & 3) huh?
I commute approx. 8 yards on an office day.

Unless you mean my astonishingly glamorous & jetsetting lifestyle, travelling to visit clients & gunning the gauntlet of the meticulously patrolled Welsh/Anglo borders?

This thread is golden!

Slurping, chomping, shovelling, vomiting, allergies, vile, stinky, lush fatties, competitive non eating for hours on end, public drunkenness after two drinks (faint!), the end of civilised society as we know it and the threat of being "spoken to" by a real life pearl-clutcher.

Bravo Mumsnet, this is why I bloody love you

ooo is this thread still going? just finished a meeting, and I'm having a quick cup of tea & informal chat - still work - with one of the other people attending. Then I'll race to the mainlne station for my train out of this crowded city. I left this morning at 6am, and won't get home until 10pm.

So I'll be buying something nice and hot for eating on the train.

I even had crisps this morning - needed them to help against the motion sickness these new (supposedly "improved") trains seem to give me if I try to do any work while travelling.

What penance shall I pay, oh MN-arbiters of what is "common"**

Crisps
No lunch
Probably a Leon grilled halloumi wrap, or maybe a naked Burrito on the train + Percy pigs (of course).
And maybe a tinned M&S cocktail, because of course, I am that type.

**Hint: I am very far from "common" but I don't like to use all my titles in everyday life. But basically, if I do something, then it isn't common, because I'm doing it.

And my governess taught me it's actually unkind to call people "common."

People will continue to eat on trans, especially on long journeys where food is sold.
of course, people will continue eating, drinking, listening to loud music, shouting, taking their shoes off and just being generally rude and unpleasant in any public place and transports, for shorts or long journeys.

It makes it neither right nor pleasant for everybody else, but no one really expect people to magically get basic manners overnight. You have to admire the fact that they are so proud to boast about it but it's an anonymous forum, so it's easy.

Why on Earth would you consider it shameful to eat on a train, pancake, and hence, why people might 'boast' about it anonymously? Eh? It's such a non-issue to most people to have a meal on a train after a long day most wouldn't even bring it up. There's nothing bad mannered about it except in your bizarre world. Hilarious!

And also ...

Because I am such an international traveller, I do happen to know that Virgin Trains sells:

• bacon rolls
• sausage baps

on its early morning services on the West Coast line. (well used to sell as Virgin Trains is no more, Hurrah!!!!)

And they smelt lovely (unless polluted by tomato ketchup), but tasted awful. The bacon was all grainy and crumbled - not proper rashers. I suspect it came from a very dubious part of the pig.

FruitcakeOfHate
why such a long thread if everybody really did agree with you? Bizarre...

why such a long thread if everybody really did agree with you? Bizarre...

Probably because it's actually funny AF to see how wound up people get about something so banal and rather funny to wind them up further .

*Because I am such an international traveller, I do happen to know that Virgin Trains sells:

• bacon rolls sausage baps

OMG, won't someone think of the vegans!? So offensive, having to smell that

I know! And how utterly common of Virgin Trains to encourage people to eat on a train.

So offensive, having to smell that

Actually, I always find the smell of tomato ketchup (probably vegan, or almost) to be offensive.

"Offensive" as in "I don't like it, therefore it is wrong - which is surely the Spirit of this Thread