I'm another one of those people who can't eat while walking, I have to sit down and eat. I'm also not keen on eating on public transport, nothing to do with being a snob, just self conscious.
I occasionally (once every few months) have a bag of chips out (sitting on a bench) or even rarer, have a Subway or Burger King (sitting in their restaurant). Being a fatty though, I am well aware that people will look at me and think, "Oh, look at that fat cow, stuffing her face", which is what puts me off eating in public. Not that I'm that fond of fast food anyway.
Is it just on DS that people feel the only way to describe people eating is to use phrases like "stuffing their face" and "shoving food down their gob"?
Is that what these people are really doing? Really?!
People have to eat, people have different eating habits. I use public transport regularly and I have to sit next to people who absolutely stink of bad body odour, but you know what, I tolerate it. I certainly don't come onto an internet forum to whinge about it and call for it to be banned.
People have to eat, people have different eating habits. I use public transport regularly and I have to sit next to people who absolutely stink of bad body odour, but you know what, I tolerate it. I certainly don't come onto an internet forum to whinge about it and call for it to be banned.
I see. I thought you were talking about everyone who doesn't like eating in the street, not just the ones who exaggerate.
I cannot eat when in public. I just get concious that everyone is looking at me and what I'm eating, the worst is something like an ice cream.
Me too.
It's not so much that I think other people are disgusting if they do it, it's just that I don't know why they'd want to do it.
I just don't enjoy eating like that, based on when I've done it before. Especially if it's messy food that has a tendency to break apart in your hands and squidge out all over your hands and fingers.
However I do find people eating crisps in public quite disgusting because their breath reeks of the flavour of crisps they're eating.
Crisps being eaten in public is disgusting for me and can make me feel sick to be near anyone who's doing it.
I don't mind the eating at all. It's afterwards when they use their finger as a toothpick. Any food that is picked is then wiped on the tongue and re-eaten.
I saw a guy doing just this on the tube last week.
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.
Yep, I remember reading an article some years ago, commenting on people eating crisps or a sandwich in the street, saying how bad mannered it was.
I guess that since more food places and coffee shops have sprung up over the years, it's just become commonplace to nip in somewhere when you're feeling peckish, and grab something easy to eat whilst on the go, instead of stopping to sit down for a while and eat.
I don't eat whilst I'm walking through town, or out and about shopping. I'd rather sit down somewhere and have something to eat and drink, or just wait til I get home. I tried eating a bag crisps on the go once, and it just felt all wrong
What I don't appreciate is when people come into the shop I work in with their drinks or snacks, touching the products with greasy hands and leaving their rubbish, or spilling their drink on the floor.
I think that's a good point linnylou.
The increase in places that sell fast food has probably influenced eating behaviour.
You'd think that town and planning authorities would have planned for this. That if a town or city centre has a high frequency of outlets that sell food to eat on the go then there should be facilities created in towns so that people have somewhere to eat their snacks.
Just more points here and there where there's a bit of green park with a few benches and trees where people can eat their food in a much more relaxed and pleasant way.
Not just dash out of the shop onto a street full of pedestrians and traffic and have to wallop it down on the fly.
I couldn't care less if people eat in public - why not? But I do find most people's obsession with food these days odd.
I am just bemused by how many cookery shows there are on all the time. To me it is literally the most boring subject in the world, after economics. It's like clothes ... a diversion from the reality that we will all die. Find something REAL to think about, people!!!
Being a fatty though, I am well aware that people will look at me and think, "Oh, look at that fat cow, stuffing her face", which is what puts me off eating in public.
I do find it a bit gross - I don't like to watch people eat on the bus or something, it makes me feel a bit sick! - and I particularly hate it when someone has smelly food in an enclosed space (I see lots of people with takeaways on the tube and I hate having to smell it). However I do occasionally have to do it myself - sometimes I simply forget to eat during the day or I'm too busy at work to get anything and I just get so hungry that I have to buy something and eat it on the bus home. Never anything smelly though and I always do it as surreptitiously as possible in hope no one will notice
I don't like eating in public, like on a bus or a train; I don't like the idea of people staring, I'm happy to wait until I get home or to work! I don't like eating and walking either as I see a lot of people doing. I prefer to sit down and eat my food, call me old fashioned.
This, whenever I get food when I'm out, I ALWAYS take it home with me before I eat it. I don't want to be stared at and for some reason, because I choose to take it home, it bugs me when I see other people sitting on buses/at bus stops eating.
No, you're not strange. Some bloke stuffing his face full of pasty on the bus.
It's the eating noises combined with the constant shuffling of the paper bag
I got up and moved away
Also, the smell of the food, was making me hungry myself
I'll never understand the vitriol and pure hatred there is out there for overweight people on DS. So many of you speak as if you're physically fuming at the thought of obesity. I just picture you all with steam coming out your ears, all red in the face with rage hammering those keys, lol. Would you ever calm down about it for once!? Every other thread on this God-forsaken forum seems to be about how 'fat people' are disgusting, are you not bored talking about it, super models of DS? Have you not got some lettuce leaves to munch on in a dark, empty room away from that filthy public you despise so much?
It comes down to snobbery. 'Stuffing their faces', 'shoving food down their throats'...really?
I suppose you eat like delicate little butterflies. I suppose if i were to sit opposite you while you ate a meal i'd be moved to tears at the beauty of it all, haha.
Overweight or obese people are just people who are larger than those who are not overweight or obese. That simple. If they cause you no inconvenience or harm (and no, 'having to look at them' isn't a reason, sad acts :rolleyes:) then you have no business directing all of your failures and inadequate feelings about yourselves and projecting them upon innocent members of the public, some of whom are probably just, like you, trying their bloody best to muddle through this thing called life. While you're sat back laughing, judging and generally being the type of tosser who has millions of posts on an internet forum it could well be that these people are attempting to improve themselves but NEWSFLASH, OMG!!! Overweight people do also need to eat too. It's incredible, isn't it? That concept? That starvation until they are an acceptable size in your minds could ever NOT be a solution? Still, hey ho.
On with your typing, i'm sure you've got some more less-than-perfect members of society to insult. Sad, sad little people, lol.
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I occasionally (once every few months) have a bag of chips out (sitting on a bench) or even rarer, have a Subway or Burger King (sitting in their restaurant). Being a fatty though, I am well aware that people will look at me and think, "Oh, look at that fat cow, stuffing her face", which is what puts me off eating in public. Not that I'm that fond of fast food anyway.
Is that what these people are really doing? Really?!
People eating an ice cream in public doesn't bother me at all but someone eating greasy fast food within a metre of me does.
Why?.
People have to eat, people have different eating habits. I use public transport regularly and I have to sit next to people who absolutely stink of bad body odour, but you know what, I tolerate it. I certainly don't come onto an internet forum to whinge about it and call for it to be banned.
I see. I thought you were talking about everyone who doesn't like eating in the street, not just the ones who exaggerate.
Me too.
It's not so much that I think other people are disgusting if they do it, it's just that I don't know why they'd want to do it.
I just don't enjoy eating like that, based on when I've done it before. Especially if it's messy food that has a tendency to break apart in your hands and squidge out all over your hands and fingers.
However I do find people eating crisps in public quite disgusting because their breath reeks of the flavour of crisps they're eating.
Crisps being eaten in public is disgusting for me and can make me feel sick to be near anyone who's doing it.
This made me quiver in disgust.
Yep, I remember reading an article some years ago, commenting on people eating crisps or a sandwich in the street, saying how bad mannered it was.
I guess that since more food places and coffee shops have sprung up over the years, it's just become commonplace to nip in somewhere when you're feeling peckish, and grab something easy to eat whilst on the go, instead of stopping to sit down for a while and eat.
I don't eat whilst I'm walking through town, or out and about shopping. I'd rather sit down somewhere and have something to eat and drink, or just wait til I get home. I tried eating a bag crisps on the go once, and it just felt all wrong
What I don't appreciate is when people come into the shop I work in with their drinks or snacks, touching the products with greasy hands and leaving their rubbish, or spilling their drink on the floor.
The increase in places that sell fast food has probably influenced eating behaviour.
You'd think that town and planning authorities would have planned for this. That if a town or city centre has a high frequency of outlets that sell food to eat on the go then there should be facilities created in towns so that people have somewhere to eat their snacks.
Just more points here and there where there's a bit of green park with a few benches and trees where people can eat their food in a much more relaxed and pleasant way.
Not just dash out of the shop onto a street full of pedestrians and traffic and have to wallop it down on the fly.
Especially if they're eating cheese and onion or prawn cocktail flavour crisps.:D
I am just bemused by how many cookery shows there are on all the time. To me it is literally the most boring subject in the world, after economics. It's like clothes ... a diversion from the reality that we will all die. Find something REAL to think about, people!!!
I got the impression that you didn't like to see people eating:o:o
lol... I'm sure few people take any notice.
This, whenever I get food when I'm out, I ALWAYS take it home with me before I eat it. I don't want to be stared at and for some reason, because I choose to take it home, it bugs me when I see other people sitting on buses/at bus stops eating.
It's the eating noises combined with the constant shuffling of the paper bag
I got up and moved away
Also, the smell of the food, was making me hungry myself
It comes down to snobbery. 'Stuffing their faces', 'shoving food down their throats'...really?
I suppose you eat like delicate little butterflies. I suppose if i were to sit opposite you while you ate a meal i'd be moved to tears at the beauty of it all, haha.
Overweight or obese people are just people who are larger than those who are not overweight or obese. That simple. If they cause you no inconvenience or harm (and no, 'having to look at them' isn't a reason, sad acts :rolleyes:) then you have no business directing all of your failures and inadequate feelings about yourselves and projecting them upon innocent members of the public, some of whom are probably just, like you, trying their bloody best to muddle through this thing called life. While you're sat back laughing, judging and generally being the type of tosser who has millions of posts on an internet forum
On with your typing, i'm sure you've got some more less-than-perfect members of society to insult. Sad, sad little people, lol.