Crisps for breakfast on the train!

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WIBU to throw something very heavy at the man loudly eating crisps for breakfast before 8am on the train? (In the quiet coach, as well! 😡) This is after having polished off a Maccy D's breakfast.

BTW for those of you who remember 'Leon chicken satay-gate', I ate my Starbucks porridge in Starbucks before I got on the train so as not to displease the MN population! 😂

YANBU. I would ban eating on trains. Medical conditions aside, can people not wait an hour? As soon as some people step onto any form of public transport - chomp chomp chomp. Must have been brought up that way, I can't think of other reasons. Buy a book!
I feel better now that's out

It might be his supper that he is eating, some people work nights !

Hmmmm, maybe there should be a 'dogs ok but no twats allowed' carriage....

Best get off my phone to read my highbrow book now anyway...

A man on my on bus eats a 6-pack of own brand ready salted crisps every morning during the 30minute journey. Makes me feel a bit - not envy

6-pack?! That's going some!

Oh I do love how some people think you can get from anywhere to anywhere in the UK in an hour 😂

@stuffedpeppers Goadiest thread I've ever seen on Mumsnet, and I've seen a few

I once sat on a train where a man got on ate a whole family bag of cheese onion crisps before we departed and then finished and moved down the other end! Bastard

*comment, not thread

Rose, your train journey might be an hour. A recent train journey took 6 hours with 2 15 minute changes Yes me and my kids ate on the train, no it should not be banned. Your one hour commute is often just the first leg of a long all day journey for someone else.

A few nights ago on my way home from work i sat next to a man who made the most strange noises whilst eating his McDonald’s salad meal.
I’ve no idea how he did it, but it was like he was slurping soup, only it was a chicken salad. He sort of drank it..
I had to move, the noises we’re making me feel quite ill...

YANBU. I would ban eating on trains. Medical conditions aside, can people not wait an hour

You've clearly never travelled on SWR where a 45 minutes journey often becomes 90 minutes....

also, lots of journeys take a lot longer than an hour. London to Thurso anyone?

Beef crisps are evil. You need about ten baths before the stench leaves your fingers.

I would like a quiet (monastic silence), non-smelly, no tinny music, no dogs, no small kids, no retired couples having very loud conversations (why are they on a commuter train anyway - they've clearly too much money if they can afford to travel peak for fun, its £35 peak to London from where I live so £70 and you can't use a railcard that early) carriage.

First class doesn't work because people still take their music/dogs/kids/loud conversations with them. Or in one case where I went business class on Eurostar, decided to play through all the ringtones on their mobile phone.

I hate anyone else eating crisps near me unless it's noisy where we are. I live with a husband who is a very aggressive biter and cheer - one day I will kill him and it will be when he is eating crisps or pizza.

There's a train that runs from Penzance to either Inverness or Aberdeen. Takes most of the day. Bit harsh to ban people on that journey from eating!

Crisps for breakfast, eh. I like crisps but not at that hour. Force of habit, I suppose, as they're no worse nutritionally than lots of rubbishy things many people do eat for breakfast or as a mid-morning snack.

imo eating crisps on a train is better than someone applying make up.

I agree, OP, especially with the smell.
I had a hospital appointment yesterday and was sitting nervously with my husband on two rows of very close back-to-back chairs, those that cannot be separated.
A young lad sat directly behind us, ate a bag of cheese and onion crisps (I checked!) and then flung his head back to get the remnants from the bag and managed to clash heads with me
He did sheepishly apologise and then moved to a single seat and eat another three bags in total silence!

It could be worse, he could be drinking red bull.

I don't get why anyone would apply make-up on a train because a) you have to take your scary make-upless face out the house and into public, and b) the train shakes all over the shop so you'd end up with a mascara wand in your eye!

you have to take your scary make-upless face out the house and into public

The world send to cope ok with my scary make-upless face alright.

I love crisps, but for breakfast? Err no.

Can’t see that the guy from night shift would eat that. I’ve worked nights but never eaten like that.

Also I don't reckon a guy who's just finished a night shift would be on the Leeds to Kings Cross? Unless he has a looooong commute.

@cologne4711 SWR is actually my regular commute. I'd also happily go 90 mins without having to eat on the train. I was being light hearted but I guess that needed spelling out. I do hate it but I understand it's public so tough shit. I do think people should show consideration with noisy and smelly food though. There's no need.

Oh you ARE luck it was crisps. Got on a train and only seat was next to someone who had a can of lager for breakfast so smelt like a brewery, with brewery burps. Ten mins from the trerminus the lager had passed through his digestive tract and thermonuclear blasts - gas gas gas - evacuate the coach. Well, out of seat and standing by the doors AUUUYGH

Meh I bet he ate them in 5minutes not something to get worked up about.

If he starts dropping silent smelly farts after the combination of crisps & McDonald's brekkie eeuuggh...