Do you ever feel proper shame when…

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Eating a maccy Ds. I was in Waterloo, a little tipsy, had the choice between an M&S feta crumb & lemon quinoa salad - or a quarter pounder with cheese/9 chicken nuggets/large fries/apple pie/Diet Coke combo…. guess which one I chose -

So I stood there with my brown bag of delight, throwing every morsel into my mouth with great pleasure yet immense shame - whilst all of the “others” with their tousled hair, cycled shorts, salads, wraps walked past in horror - their mouths turned up in disgust at my frenzied eating ways - proper eye contact and all

i should feel shameful

But it was so good - so I don’t give a sh&t

quarter pounder with cheese/9 chicken nuggets/large fries/apple pie/Diet Coke

Did you have nuggets and burger or one of them?

whilst all of the “others” with their tousled hair, cycled shorts, salads, wraps walked past in horror

Who are all these tousle-haired people in cycling shorts at Waterloo? In my experience it's crowds of harassed commuters, much more interested in whether their train is on time than what one amongst hundreds of people around them is eating.

Of course none of this happened because nobody at any main line London station gives two hoots about what anyone else is doing, unless you get in their way / faff.

sounds like you have a chic lit novel in you op.

I’d have said that no one cares what you’re eating but having read the first few posts moaning about McDonald’s maybe they did!

Sometimes a quinoa salad just doesn’t hit the spot and what the belly wants is junk food. When that happens, McDonalds is perfect. It’s not supposed to be high class healthy dining it fulfills a salt and grease craving.

Crack on OP and ignore any judgy / self professed superior people who claim not to get it.

That would not be my bag, but I could not give a toss what other people wish to consume. I am surprised that so many people seemed to notice your meal, to react in such a way.

If you haven't eaten one in 40 years then how can you say it's revolting? You don't even know how it tastes🤷

Wouldn’t cross my mind to care what someone was eating. Were you chewing with your mouth open?

I think the issue is probably the "frenzied eating ways" rather than what you were eating. Especially as you were making eye contact with other people around - that's a 2 way thing!

I always get coke zero because I don't like full fat coke anymore. I swapped to coke zero at home for the calories and now full fat tastes weird.

I love a McDonald's though and feel absolutely no shame in eating one. I don't think any passers by in a train station would bat an eyelid at someone eating one either, it's perfectly normal unless it's been shovelled in at lightning speed whilst making really loud noises. People will definitely judge then!

Nope, never felt an ounce of shame 😆

If you ate that on the train, you would have had a sneer from me

But at the station? Fair game

So I stood there with my brown bag of delight, throwing every morsel into my mouth with great pleasure yet immense shame - whilst all of the “others” with their tousled hair, cycled shorts, salads, wraps walked past in horror - their mouths turned up in disgust at my frenzied eating ways -

At least you managed a word salad...

Could it be the way you were eating it? You saying you were 'throwing it in' in a 'frenzied' way makes me imagine the Cookie Monster (complete with loud OMNOMNOMNOMNOM noises)... if you were doing that, complete with intense eye-contact, I might have noticed... otherwise, nah...

Maccas is not "chemically produced edible products" where I live.

My toxic trait, I tell myself I want to loose weight, I feel fucking disgusting so I have chocolate to make me feel better and tell myself it’s the last time or I’ll say ok from tomorrow that’s it so I’ll shovel all the shit in today that I can 😂

Maybe stop judging? Not all metabolisms are the same.

When I was a newsagent. The college bust used to stop outside. Skinny popular girl would buy 4 chocolate bars every single day, eat 2 in the shop, and say I'll have the others later when I watch tv. Boys fawned all over her.
Bigger girl would buy 1, and boys would all say Ew, fat pig, you shouldn't eat that.

But everyone says it's CICO sane for everyone!

Maybe they were starving and were secretly jealous of your ability to eat what you want!

No. I am at Waterloo all the time and I believe that no one cares about what I am eating. Indeed no one cares about me at all.

One of life’s pleasures is being alone, getting a drive through maccies and sitting eating it parked in the car park. Glorious.

Nobody cares what you eat, anymore than the OP. Overweight people at Waterloo are hardly an unusual sight.

One of the things I tell my DD is that literally nobody is thinking about you. Ger over main character syndrome.

Nothing to stop them buying some McDaddies, if they want!

No shame what so ever! I LOVE a maccies specially when you slightly tipsy!

YABU because there’s no way anyone else gave a shit what some random stranger at the train station was eating.