kids think im the weird one!

maman

I think there's been a huge generational change. I think it's probably an American import which younger generations buy into. I think there's also the fact that so many couples both work (compared with years ago) now and feel that it's an entitlement to have some help with feeding the family in the form of a take away (closely followed by ready meals). Eating out in restaurant chains or Sunday lunch at the pub is also part of this lifestyle change.


When I was a child, the only thing you ate in the street was fish and chips, an ice cream/lolly in the summer and maybe an occasional bag of crisps outside a pub if dad was inside on a summer evening.


People did eat in cafes but if you wanted a cup of tea/coffee you stopped for it and sat down inside to eat it.


I think this eating on the hoof in the street is part of showing how incredibly busy and important you are. A bit like not being able to wait to take/make a phone call in private.

splishsplash

I find it incredible that people in 2016 can say they've never had takeaway food or drink or been in a coffee shop.

What do people do on holidays or day outs? I'm genuinely curious. Do you always bring things to eat and drink? Really?

Consider my gob well and truly smacked.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Good for OP, no foam drinks and no wasted money on someone snooting in your food!

Chicken wings tonight, ready made are around £5 for 5 sparrow legs. Ours about £1.40, and the spices at 20 pennies (BoP likes them hot!) and we get around 7 or 8 each!

maman

splishsplash wrote: »

I find it incredible that people in 2016 can say they've never had takeaway food or drink or been in a coffee shop.

What do people do on holidays or day outs? I'm genuinely curious. Do you always bring things to eat and drink? Really?

Consider my gob well and truly smacked.

I think you may have misread the original post. It's not that people don't use coffee shops on days out it's just that many of us don't feel the need to walk down the street with the coffee. As for take-aways, I think most of us who've commented would rather eat out properly in a restaurant or cook at home. The take away food often doesn't match up in terms of value or ingredients to cooking your own.

cbrown372

We enjoy a chippy tea delivered occasionally but I must admit the best fish and chips are eaten while sitting on a harbour wall watching the sea.

Though in my youth we always had a bag of chips while walking home from guides and that wasn't yesterday, or even the day before yesterday

Upsidedown_Bear

Some people love take ways and coffees out. Some people don't.
It would be a very boring world if we were all the same

As for weird :T

splishsplash

maman wrote: »

I think you may have misread the original post. It's not that people don't use coffee shops on days out it's just that many of us don't feel the need to walk down the street with the coffee. As for take-aways, I think most of us who've commented would rather eat out properly in a restaurant or cook at home. The take away food often doesn't match up in terms of value or ingredients to cooking your own.

I understood it to mean some people had actually never tried a takeaway or set foot in a coffee shop or mc donald's... for example:

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

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.

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

JIL

Sometimes if I have had a really busy week at work, I will treat myself to a takeaway breakfast on a Friday. A mcds latte and breakfast muffin. Probably once every six weeks.
Because it's occasional and not the norm it is a treat and I really enjoy it.

whiteguineapig

I don't know really, Macdonalds and Kfc don't really appeal, (oh doesn't eat meat), I think we are quite old/poor/tight, we have a new costa coffee machine at work and even with staff discount I can't bring myself to buy it (I want a whole jar for the price of one cup!)
We have used Subway quite often when abroad, they used to have an offer that I think was a footlong for 5 dollars, but I have never bought it here
(we get out and about a lot, but I usually just take juice and cereal bars etc, its cheaper)

googler

VfM4meplse wrote: »

What's Dobbies btw?

Chain of Garden Centres with food shops, cafes and other retail outlets attached to their sites.