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!

More importantly, do they still sell the Thai green curry box in Leon by the way?

@penberrh, now you are derailing ... the correct question is in fact:
"What does the Thai green curry box from Leon smell like?"

Leading to further questions with no end in sight but existential angst, & sick in your shoes.

Didn't see it when I ordered my stinky satay.

Well quite, Messolini!

If I don’t get my Thai green curry when I need it I vomit suddenly and lavishly. How would you feel about THAT you nay-saying selfish bastards??

Actually, I WAS on an LNER (or Virgin as it then was) train a couple of years ago from KX pop north when someone at the same table was eating a Leon takeout. Can’t say I remember anything about the smell.

I think someone should nominate this for classics it's been so entertaining - what do you reckon peeps

Oh, the past ones were also pure comedy gold, hence Polite Sandwich and Furtive Sandwich (the latter was a Tube user who apparently ate by taking nibbles from the sandwich, stuffed in his coat pocket, on the escalator in the Tube station. Nothing else was acceptable).

Can’t say I remember anything about the smell.

Ha, says YOU, with your highly biased & selective memory, who probably rides international trains with a peg on her nose to cover the stench of her own vomit.

Ooops Penberrh, just thought I'd bat for the other team for a moment to see what it feels like.
As you were, soldier.

how would you feel about THAT you nay-saying selfish bastards??

Id better be off now, in case I’m ‘spoken to’

I see I’ve been reported . Snowflake much? Wouldn’t hold up in a court of law by the way - not a court in the land that would say that wasn’t a fair comment, basic KS1 arithmetic concepts being taken into account etc.

Hope you got home ok @Dolorabelle? Nothing worse than a train delay.

I want to know what E17 would have said. Come back! Tell us!

I would find that pretty annoying to be honest. Im pregnant and seriously struggled the other day when the guy next to me was eating some really strong smelling walkers max crisps. The train was full and people were standing so I couldn't move seats. But he's lucky I wasn't sick over him. I don't look viaibly pregnant as I'm in first trimester but I just can't cope with any food smells at the moment. My mum gets travel sick on prwtty much all public transport and struggles with food smells while travelling st the best of times. Some countries actually ban people from eating food on public transport.

Oh FFS. Another one who would vom at the smell of food. I don't know how you people survive in the real world.

Oh, yes, and they always have to vomit all over someone else for the drama of it.

I had to use public transport whilst very nauseated in the beginning of pregnancy and smells were overpowering. That was my problem not for the rest of the world to accommodate. I carried a plastic bag in my bag in case I had to be sick.

E17 would have said: 'That's frightfully rude and entitled. Please put your dinner in the bin immediately or I will report you to the train police' And I would have replied: 'oh please do fuck off right away'

Some countries actually ban people from eating food on public transport.

Maybe consider a move .

we probably sleep a lot better at night not being so angry and antagonistic all the time.

E17 would have said FA.

I’m still on the train. Another hour to go. We’re running about 45 minutes late. At least I’ll get my money back on the ticket.

Urgh. So glad I had a naked burrito and then a carton of yoghurt and honey.

I sometimes find the only thing that stops nausea is eating crisps.

You wouldn’t eat on a bus, in your bedroom or in your car so why is it acceptable on a train? Selfish not to consider impact on others

Well I hugely beg to differ Ma'am! I eat in the car, in the bath, on a bus, car, train, tram and even at home occasionally. 🍌🍗🌯🍕🍟🥚🧂

Some countries actually ban people from eating food on public transport.

Okay, but it's definitely not the case in this country. Food is sold on trains, in buffet cars or via trolleys.

That is true. Because it makes profit. But it doesn't necessary make it the right thing to do... it just means that it is condoned by millionaires who recognise the profit it makes and who don't have to travel on their own services 🙈

@fruitcakeofhate i actually carry a paper bag with me in case I'm sick during pregnancies (I try not to use plastic). But I can't imagine it would just be my problem if I was sick... I'm pretty sure most people around me would see it as their problem too 🤷‍♀️

And the 'real world', @chocolatesaltyballs22? Go on...please do elaborate... I'm all ears! 😁

But I can't imagine it would just be my problem if I was sick... I'm pretty sure most people around me would see it as their problem too 🤷‍♀️

Why on Earth is it someone else's problem if you're being sick in a bag? You're the one boaking. The rest of the world is just chuntering along, no one cares if you're motion sick or pregnant or don't like noises or no. 5 perfume or whatever. The world isn't going to stop doing what it does because you're a special case.

I get motion sick on those new trains. I take a tablet for it. I don't expect the rest of the world to not eat or not wear their favourite aftershave because it makes me sick on top of the train's motion.

It's response to demand, surrey. People want to buy the food to consume on the train and do so or there wouldn't be the service. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Obviously, plenty of other people do so that's why the service is there.