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Original poster

to take food from the hotel breakfast for lunch?

69 replies

smallegg · 07/05/2009 19:02

would you do it?

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BernardsCat · 07/05/2009 19:24

greeny you devil.
she did it again recently and i thought of you lot!

Greensneeze · 07/05/2009 19:25

this still IS all fields [tumbleweed]

BernardsCat · 07/05/2009 19:26

i would also do some self actualsisation and smell some lavenderrrrrrrrr

Rubyrubyruby · 07/05/2009 20:22

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chipkid · 07/05/2009 20:26

yes I have done it. Staying in a five star hotel where the buffet is plentiful-with two very young children who will eat very little at lunch. I have taken a couple of bread rolls and some ham. I would think with the current euro strength there will be a lot of others doing it too this summer!

BigBellasBeerBelly · 07/05/2009 20:29

I once took two mini babybels when DD was about 7mo, for snack on go type food, when we hadn't yet worked out where supermarket etc was.

I still feel so cheap....

LadyAga · 07/05/2009 20:44

oh god, have some pride.. don't steal scraps of food.

desertgirl · 07/05/2009 20:52

one of the hotel managers here in the desert talks about one hotel being 'a five star hotel with three star clients' and bases that on the fact that ridiculous amounts of all portable food is needed for 'breakfast' and that the McDonalds near that hotel has the highest turnover in town.

Not agreeing, just repeating.

pointydog · 07/05/2009 20:52

I am not able to do this.

It makes me feel like a big old bloater. I've just had a very decent breakfast and there I am stuffing food in my mucky handbag. No.

Think of the starving children.

wolfnipplechips · 07/05/2009 21:06

No because i have eaten so much food that i can't think about eatin again for at least a couple of hours

No seriously i think its a bit nouveau.

dittany · 07/05/2009 21:08

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BigBellasBeerBelly · 07/05/2009 21:10

I have noticed that some people just do this, and some just don't.

Some people feel entitled to help themselves to piles of food to take-away as they have paid for brekkie, and feel that it is expected and normal that everyone helps themselves. They are shameless about it as they feel it is something they have paid for and is totally normal.

Other people feel that it is weird and wrong to steal food from breakfast and secrete it out of the place. Cheap and rather minging. Embarassing.

i don't know where/how this difference arises - in my friendship group some are the former and some are the latter, with no difference in class, education blah blah.

maybe some people are just tight?

Dunno.

PortoPandemico · 07/05/2009 21:12

I've taken some fruit, or something prepwrapped like biscuit/cake for dd, as she is guaranteed not to want a thing when actually in the breakfeast room. But I wouldn't dream of filling my bag up with rolls! My yardstick is that I wouldn;t be embarrassed to be seen leaving the room with whatever i had.

oranges · 07/05/2009 21:15

Is it to with the ages of children? it makes total sense to pick up a yoghurt or a banana for a toddler or baby who needs something small to eat quickly later on.

Weirder to make ham rolls for the whole family.

LadyAga · 07/05/2009 21:17

at a wedding reception there was a buffet and I saw a girl putting picked onions in her cardigan pocket !!!!

Seriously, can you think of anything more revolting to eat; pickled onions that have been sat festering in your cardigan pocket all dried up and covered in bits of fluff... and you would stink.

LadyAga · 07/05/2009 21:17

why didn't cardigan pocket bold?

TheFallenMadonna · 07/05/2009 21:18

A bit "nouveau" what?

I don't think it's particularly dreadful, although I probably wouldn't go further than a bit of fruit myself. Well, maybe a roll...

I had to laugh at the "Why on earth would you?" question. Different worlds...

blithedance · 07/05/2009 21:20

I remember this subject before.

Do not be under any illusions. The hotel staff serve your breakfast, clear your table and empty your bins.

They know exactly which people "supplement" breakfast and have a pretty low opinion of them too. They are usually too polite to mention it but it definitely doesn't go unnoticed.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/05/2009 21:21

Oooh - xposts. Pickled onions? That is dreadful.

ingles2 · 07/05/2009 21:25

it's cheap and tacky. If you can't afford to buy food, go for a cheaper holiday.

hatesponge · 07/05/2009 21:27

I have done it before and will do it again when we go on hols at the end of the month - am paying for half board but have 2 children who rarely eat breakfast but I know will be starving by mid-morning - so I will take some fruit & rolls etc which they can eat when they are hungry.

if that makes me a pikey so be it......

ravenAK · 07/05/2009 21:29

It'd be OK if there was a big sign saying 'Please Take A Doggy Bag' & a neat pile of bags (I envision them as being like the san-pro ones you used to get in loos, or maybe airline sickbags).

If you're having to smuggle then it's a bit naff.

My well-to-do parents are utter buggers for this. They regularly give me bags of biros & soap bars they've needlessly pinched from hotels.

Admittedly I don't knock them back - can always use a bag of biros...

Ninkynork · 07/05/2009 21:30

You have to put asterisks around each word LadyAga. It always catches me out.

I'd take a banana or something for a toddler but not anything else. Especially not meat in a warm climate

BigBellasBeerBelly · 07/05/2009 21:36

raven part of our honeymoon was in austria and they did just that. Bags provided for packed lunch, make your own rolls up with the cheese ham etc and fruit.

And little cartons of drinks. And even crisps.

it was wonderful

wolfnipplechips · 07/05/2009 21:36

Nouveau riche

at pickled onions why would you want them.

I can understand taking a yoghurt or fruit for a baby but i'm assuming thats not what the op is talking about.