AIBU to eat on public transport

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I feel like I'm asking MN a lot recently but it's been v helpful recently!

So I'm travelling back home from the office and totally wiped out and for some reason my body was telling me I needed sushi. So I got a little box from some overpriced place at the station

And now I feel like I have to eat it in 2 mins flat as feel so self conscious eating it. I forgot how weird it feels eating in public. Its not smelly but I don't know.. is it acceptable to eat food on a train in the heat full of commuters? I'm doing it right now but I thunk perhaps AIBU.

What are your views? Eating on buses/trains etc?

Sushi - YABU!

An apple or something non smelly - YANBU

It's better value than sushi, because it's not sushi...

Sushi doesn't smell. It was really inoffensive imo but I found myself rushing to eat it for some reason. I felt a bit ashamed for some reason.

I don't know. There seem to be unspoken rules. On a commuter train, a pastry with your coffee is ok. Maybe a sandwich or a bag of crisps at a push. But not anything hot or that needs cutlery / chopsticks to eat it.
On a long distance train, anything goes. Most people unpack quite a lavish spread before they reach the first station stop and munch from one end of the country to the other.

I eat if the journey is long and over a mealtime- tables always have people eating. I don't think the more 'cosy' commuter trains are good for food- it seems more inconsiderate. If it's a reasonable journey time, I just wait.

Sushi doesn’t smell. There are no rules against eating on transport. Go for it, people listen to music without headphones do much worse

Not unreasonable at all!

I don't get this non-smelly thing. I despise the smell oranges and bananas. McDonalds/BK etc wouldn't bother me at all. I'd must rather a waft of a burger than a horrible orange smell!

It's no big deal. Crack on.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest! if you're hungry, crack on

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It wouldn't bother me. But, as already mentioned, this bothers many mumsnetters very much. Even if they're on a different train, they'll be throwing up from the smell and also driven mad by the sound of you opening the packet.

I don't know why people are so apparently bothered by eating on trains?! I commute 2 hrs each way a couple of times a day so often do, usually overnight oats on the way in and a sandwich coming back (though I'm pregnant at the moment so am starving). There are literally stacks of food outlets at train stations for exactly this reason!

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Apoarently you're not meant to eat them! Who knew right??

Of course sushi smells- it's raw fish. To say it doesn't simply isn't true! Big difference on packed public transport between a cereal bar or something similar and a raw fish meal. I'm not surprised people maybe have you a bit of side eye.

Sushi really doesn’t smell. It certainly doesn’t smell fishy, if it does you shouldn’t eat it. The smell of sushi is way less than a bag of cheese and onion crisps or a pasty.

Firstly, a lot of packaged sushi in the UK doesn't contain any raw fish. Secondly, raw fish doesn't smell.

Cooked fish smells. Tinned fish smells. Smoked fish might smell sometimes. Raw fish, however, only smells if it's off.

Goodness me, the people saying YABU clearly don’t commute into London very often. People eat curry/burgers/burritos and all sorts, cold sushi is absolutely fine.

I think sushi is fine. Prepacked sushi doesn't smell. Take your rubbish with you when you get off the train so it doesn't languish in a bin on the train.

Hot food, perhaps not - I always think you shouldn't make a whole train carriage smell of chips unless you've brought enough for everyone 😄

If your raw fish sushi smells, don't eat it!!

Sushi isn't raw fish though, it is rice. It may or may not contain raw fish. I eat sushi a lot, never with raw fish.

It's fine to eat on a train so long as it's not crowded. The rule is if you're not sitting next to or opposite someone, it's fine. Trains used to have buffet carts being pushed up and down the aisle that sold crisps/sandwiches/beer etc. - not seen this for 20 years or so but maybe other routes still have them.

You shouldn't eat on a bus though, that's pretty grim.

@daisyjgrey for me mackerel is better value than sushi because it's cheaper and I think mackerel tastes nicer. And there's no rice, it's all fish. Vitamin D and omega-3 dissolved in fatty, protein-rich deliciousness. My parsimony and unsophisticated peasant tastes were, in part, formed by my mother, who's family were crofters/fisherfolk. Her ghost would be looking at me askance, asking, "So you're paying people to roll up your food now?" And seaweed she called "famine food". Fishwives, they know how to wield the knife.

LNER deliver to your seat if you order on the app if they have enough staff on board. In first class they serve a range of food from biscuits to sandwiches to hot meals. Eating on trains is an entirely normal thing to do.

As long as you don't lick your fingers or make mess, I wouldn't be bothered.