Exceptionally trivial - judge this eating-in-public etiquette

[SarahAndQuack]

On a crowded train, an adult man just gave the foil lid of his yoghurt a thorough, noisy licking.

AIBU or is this something only acceptable in the confines of your home?

What public eating misdemeanours make you judge?

Jesus what is wrong with people. Utterly disgusting.

Please not boiled sweet sucking, that’s one of the worst things! Slurpy noises, lots of swallowing, sloshing the sweet from one side of the mouth to the other, and the worst part: the sweet clacking on the teeth noise 😭😭😭

Fair point, @Broop .
Sipping plain water only. If necessary.
Why to people have to constantly eat and drink everywhere they go? It's ridiculous.

Thank god, I’ll sleep better tonight now boiled sweets are on the banned list!

Will the people drinking water be allowed to glug it or do dramatic breathy ‘aaaahhhh’s’?

I do this.

Nerve damage from a broken neck combined with hypermobility can be a right bastard - I did pretty well out of the whole thing in that I can walk, use my hands and generally function, I just can't exert enough pressure with the numb parts of my hand to tighten the grip and be able to hold a fork (or put a shoe on whilst standing on one leg without falling over sideways). Wish DP would precut food, but as he's doing all the cooking, it seems ungrateful to complain.

Someone has the nicest smelling curry wrap on the train the other day. It made me starving, old bloke in front banged the window open, tutted loudly and then moved seat. I just looked at it longingly.

Noise food, can't cope with that though.

Sipping. Only.

What bin? I've never seen a bin on a train. Genuinely. Sometimes a member of staff walks through with a bin bag but what do you do with it until then?

Tbf though it does depend how he was licking it. Just licking it I think is fine.

Mmmm, slurp, breathy sigh, slurp, mmm, I would have been joining you in positing him out of the little slidy window.

I worked with a woman once who ate fish and chips at her desk while making what can only be described as sex noises. I've never experienced something so disgusting before or since. And that was without the fish stink.

*posting. Not positing! 😂

Maybe he was giving it a load of "oooh Danone" (sluuuurrrrrrp)

Although I would personally not consume a yogurt or a burger on public transport myself, I’m actually not bothered about someone else licking a yogurt lid and I’m not really that bothered by someone eating a McDonald’s, either.

However, I would happily reinstate the death penalty for anyone who chews chewing gum within 50 yards of me. Everything about it is utterly repellent. Looks repellent, sounds repellent, smells repellent.

An adult or child licking a yoghurt lid in public is bad manners in my opinion. I was just this week talking about this with grandchild, said it's fine for children to do it at home but not in public, no adult should be licking the lid anywhere that can be seen by another person, if they want to eat the yoghurt on it then use a spoon.

That should be punished with some class of penal servitude. I'd have been dry heaving. The best smell on public transport is no smell. 🥰

I'm with the no eating in public rule. Don't get me started on the school gate/bus stop picnics brought fir after school for a child with no medical issues that ate a big packed lunch 3 hours ago and has a 5 minute bus journey home. What would you like Johnny? I've got you some strawberries, some crisps, some chocolate biscuits or do you want a pain au chocolate? Have you finished your crisps? Do you want a biscuit now? Johnny to you want some water? Have you had enough? Do you want something else? Ffs let the kid breathe! It's one of the reasons we no longer get the bus. My blood pressure can't take it and it makes me look like a big meanie when I turn down their offer of copious amounts of snacks for my child.
Bring back dining cars on long distance trains. Medical issues aside it's not beyond the realms of human abilities to go a couple of hours without food. People used to have 3 means s day with nothing much in the way of snacks and survived just fine.
People need to learn to eat with their mouth closed too. Parents no longer seem to instill table manners in their children and est with their mouth open and do things like lick the lid. The yogurt on the lid isn't for eating. That yogurt is different somehow. It's thick and weird and I'm not eating it ever. If it must be eaten then use a spoon.

Thats horrendous. I hate seeing people dip biscuits in tea. Who wants a soggy biscuit or floating crumbs in their tea. Yuck.

Totally off topic, but we were just walking through supermarket and a lady was approaching when my husband said reeces penis instead of pieces.
Similarly embarrassing.

Yes, I have to agree with you @SarahAndQuack it is exceptionally trivial. The yoghurt lid is usually covered in yoghurt. If you don't lick it off cleanly, you get mess everywhere. It doesn't smell & it's 10 seconds out of your life. Just don't watch?

There are plenty of bins on SWR trains. In the vestibules, in the bogs, and dinky little swing bins between the back to back seats.

I have no need of them because I'm in the 'plain water, sipped, but only when genuinely thirsty' camp.

Never eat in the street or on public transport.

The head teacher at my child's infant school used to parade the dining hall saying "no lollipop eating please" 🤣