kids think im the weird one!

t14cy_t

my kids, now dd 27 and ds 24 think im weird. just because i have never bought a takeaway coffee, kebab, pizza or subway. i think they are mad by buying overpriced toot myself! fish and chips is a very rare treat, but thats my lot. kids today are a strange lot thats for sure. x

Linda32

I was talking to my boss at work this week and I'm not quite sure whether she actually believed me when I said "I've never ordered a take-away" Apparently I haven't lived until I have a Chicken Biryani

Spencerx

I never buy take aways either....oh sorry occasionally used to buy fish and chips from the local chippy, does that count. My Son buys loads of them. I stopped him having them delivered to our home when he was visiting because it made my whole house stink.

martinthebandit

Sorry to be the one to break it to you but, your kids are right

whiteguineapig

i have never been in macdonalds or kfc, or had a takeaway either
i have also never been in a coffee shop

suki1964

I've the grandkids to stay at the moment and seeing as the sun was shining today took them to the beach where there's a kiddie play park.

After a couple of hours it was off to McDonald's for lunch

Grandson (9) was asking me where we went as children and explaining to him that there was no such thing as. McDs when I was a child he asked me if I had to go to Burger King lol

He was very bemused that as kids a day at the beach Kent a bucket and spade plus paste sandwiches and a jug of diluting. And when it was all done it was done and we either went home or without


Tomorrow I'm taking a packed lunch and see how much they enjoy it

monnagran

I was a student in the fifties when coffee bars first arrived. It was considered very racy to go into one and drink a cup of espresso out of a glass cup.
I don't think I dared to tell my parents that I patronized such dens of iniquity.

Come to think of it, there was quite a lot I didn't tell my parents.

I imagine that my sons felt the same when they called into Wimpeys on the way home from school.

I'm not even hazarding a guess as to where my grandchildren go unbeknownst to their parents.

x

VfM4meplse

OP, you're not weird, just old school.

My mum's the same, she will always compare a cost to the "make it at home" price. So she is happy to be treated occasionally, but bites my head off when I ask if she'd like a coffee when we're out and about (which is not that often).

Oddly I think you are nearer my age than hers!

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Monnagran Oh the days of the coffee bar where you sat for hours talking a lot of hot air,about very little
I loved a place called the Black and White milk bar which was decorated yup in black and white and looked like an american soda fountain I could never afford to have much more than a frothy coffee in there but we all felt so sophisticated
I am and never have been a lover of take-aways I like to know whats in the food I'm eating I also am not keen on chinese food at all and never have been I make my own curries at home and prefer them to anything from a shop.I suppose at a pinch my only take-away and its about once or maybe twice a year is fish and chips.I wouldn't eat a kebab if it was free never liked the look of that huge lump of preformed meat spinning round for god knows how long Never looks very appetising at all and I hate to think what bacteria is lurking on it !!
As for KFC from what I have seen it seems to be small amount of meat covered in huge amounts of coating neither healthy nor good value .My DGS only get to have a take away of their choice on their birthdays, but because its only once a year they aren't bothered about them either .Maccyds occasionally ,but very occasionally as their Mum just couldn't afford to waste that sort of cash on one meal that doesn't fill them up We do have BBQs at home in the garden and they get to eat far better burgers and nicer stuff that the take away shops provide .Different generation I think.

monnagran

Ah, JackieO, while we're reminiscing my favourite coffee bar started off as 'The two bare feet' decorated with black footprints. After a few months it morphed into 'Shangri-La' with the appropriate palm trees. That didnt last long before it became ' Davy Jones Locker' with the essential mermaids. You never knew what you were going to find.

PasturesNew

Everybody thinks their world is "the norm". The world they grew up in had these things available and so, naturally, once adults they probably found their circle of friends doing it and so were in a position to see/try these things for themselves and they see it as "normal".

I've never had a takeaway coffee - but I have had a few kebabs, a very few pizzas (they're a rip off -v- supermarket and your own oven) and I was given a full loyalty card for Subway so managed to try one once (wasn't impressed).

There are things you've done/bought that you nagged your parents to do/buy.

There are things your parents did/bought that they thought their own parents should do/buy.

"The norm/what everybody does" is a bubble that people travel in in time and location. Not everybody does XYZ.

One thing that perpetually annoys me is the way the telly etc are is always telling us "everybody .....". e.g. "everybody likes to splash out on a spa day", "everybody loves stocking up on champagne at Xmas", "everybody has debts". Along with other bearbugs that include statements like "your local asian supermarket", or "your local park" ... which tend to be city-centric concepts.

Not everybody; every experience is limited to people's personal bubbles.

Maybe they're weird as they've never had a go at darning their own socks, or going outside in the dark/cold to fill the coal scuttle mid-winter.