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People who stuff their faces in public
Laura P
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Does anyone else find it gross? I sat near someone on a bus recently who spent the whole journal stuffing huge bites of some kind of Subway wrap into her gob and I couldn't stop cringing.
Am I weird for finding this kind of thing so off-putting?
Am I weird for finding this kind of thing so off-putting?
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You are weird
Yes. Shouldn't of constantly been staring at her for the duration of the journey while eating; I have been told that it's rude! But. However, what I find annoying the most is that when people tip there crisp packet in to there mouth so they can try to fit every little crisp into their mouth too.
Indeed.
I dont have a problem with people really eating in public,its more being stuck in an enclosed space,especially if the food stinks.
I'm not that old - 55 - but when I was young it was considered very bad manners to eat in the street. You just didn't do it.
Now, we all eat on the hoof and it's only considered out of order if you're a bit fat to begin with or you don't eat nicely.
When and why did it become ok to eat in the street?
I actually think it's one of the reasons why obesity is becoming a problem.
Who stuff their faces in public what? Toilets?
I'll occasionally grab a Maccy Ds or something and nom it on the move, although that's got more to do with not enjoying being sat in a fast food joint on my own and having nothing to look at while eating. If I've got the Guardian or a magazine or something, I'll sit in and eat.
Guilty! I do this in private and on the train.
I eat anywhere in public, often stuffing my face. I'm greedy and cannot wait til I get home to eat. I have no shame.
I saw a guy doing just this on the tube last week.
Crisps and chewing gum are bloody annoying, too! >_<;;
I got a visit from him today. Someone had bought donuts and biccies and put them on the desk next to me. So he visited me several times.
I do so enjoy listening to him nom nomming and chewing the cud in between deep breaths.
By all means stuff your face. Just do it at your desk fatty.
The fattest person I know was always too self conscious to eat at all in public, and it was very noticeable. If you went to Starbucks with her she'd have a tea whilst I had a double fatty fat cappuccino full of chocolate and cream and stuff, and would prissily proclaim she was having a tea, and 'Look at me i only drink tea' etc etc. The rigmarole about how restrained she was being was so cringemaking I always wanted to say just have a bloody mocha grande, you know you would if I wasn't with you!
But now she's met the lerve of her life who is same kinda size and it's all the brakes off. We went somewhere with them in the summer and it was , within a couple of hours, cakes, a (giant) bag of sweets, hot dogs/burgers, more cakes, ice cream.... Clearly there's been a relaxation. I dunno what is worse though, the endless self conscious bleating about eating/drinking like a supermodel, or the endless public bingeing. Maybe the happy medium's hard to find.
Eating in public amongst older people is a class thing, I suspect. Mr H from a firmly working class family - his mother was a total inverted snob and was mortified to be seen eating in the street so wouldn't even have fish n chips out of the paper, on holiday... My family, much more middle class and my parents never cared if we ate fish n chips in the street... It's one of those interesting little distinctions that has faded.
It's a big taboo in some parts of Italy to eat in public/ whilst walking down the street (indeed that's why many Italians believe Northern European's have higher obesity rates- because of the leniency involved with public eating!)
I know they are entitled to eat... and that may be their one treat after eating salads every day for the past month.... but if I was overweight or obese, I would be far too conscious to do that