kids think im the weird one!

Dustyblinds

We have occasional takeaway, very rarely go to coffee shops as oh always complains the coffee is too weak.
We do have the occasional fish and chips sitting down the coast, and when we're on our travels we will stop off to let the dogs out at a service station that sells Costa, we both like an Americano which we will have with our home made sandwiches and crisps, I couldn't bring myself to go the whole hog and buy food as well.
On the rare occasions we have an Indian takeaway I always comment that the oh could have made one equally as nice at half the price but I suppose he does deserve a night off now and again :rotfl:

googler

I overheard a conversation a few months back about music, and one of the younger ones involved said to the other "Do you remember when we used to have mp3 players?" as though they were vintage technology.

I refrained from mentioning my collections of vinyl, cassette and reel-to-reel tapes, and the table-top valve radio from the 1950s ......

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Dobbies is a local garden centre plus deli with restaurant attached and for £10.00 per year you get a discount card for 10% plus two free coffees/hot drinks per month So our U3A coffee mornings are held weekly there.As the coffees are £2.95 each is pretty good value for a tenner a year plus I get discounts on plants etc.

My late Mum would have been horrified at the amount of folk who eat on the hoof To her, anyone eating in the street was not far off being a tramp.We were never allowed to eat out in the street ,she made a small concession whilst we were on holiday and could have an ice cream but she would have died of embarrassment at the thought of eating food or drinking anything in the street.We all sat down to eat at our table with clean hands or else and were never allowed to even sit indoors with food on our laps.Only food taken indoors was perhaps if you were in bed ill then a slight relaxation of her rules.Just a different generation I think, and a different mindset.Although I prefer to sit at the table to eat and wouldn't enjoy eating/drinking whilst walking, bit difficult for me as well as I use a stick to aid my mobility :):)only so many hands and with a stick in one and my handbag in the other I would go hungry/thirsty :):)

Dustyblinds

I live in a small town, moved from a pit village about 36 years ago. I was astonished to see people walking around the local shopping centre eating pasties out of a paper bag, it's the norm now to see people drinking coffee and eating with a fork or spoon while walking around. I like to enjoy/savour my food or coffee. The only real exception I make is either a bag of chips down the coast or an ice cream cornet or candy floss which is few and far between especially the candy floss.

thriftwizard

We only do take-aways for birthdays or other special occasions; a take-away for 7 isn't exactly frugal! But I was astonished, many years ago when training as an archaeologist, to discover that for, say, your everyday Roman citizen (not the wealthy, with big villas & slaves) take-aways were actually the norm. Cooking indoors, in cramped-together mostly-wooden buildings without proper hearths & chimneys, was a very dangerous pursuit, so if you wanted something hot, you went out & bought it. Up until the Middle Ages, urban homes didn't really have cooking facilities any more than they had bathrooms. So it's not just a modern thing, but part of our history.

maman

thriftwizard wrote: »

We only do take-aways for birthdays or other special occasions; a take-away for 7 isn't exactly frugal! But I was astonished, many years ago when training as an archaeologist, to discover that for, say, your everyday Roman citizen (not the wealthy, with big villas & slaves) take-aways were actually the norm. Cooking indoors, in cramped-together mostly-wooden buildings without proper hearths & chimneys, was a very dangerous pursuit, so if you wanted something hot, you went out & bought it. Up until the Middle Ages, urban homes didn't really have cooking facilities any more than they had bathrooms. So it's not just a modern thing, but part of our history.

That's interesting.


I suppose the nearest I can think of in recent years is when I remember my grandparents taking a jug to the market and buying 'take-away' faggots and peas. Also my grandmother would take her Christmas cakes to the local bakery to be cooked. I don't know if they charged or whether it was a service for regular customers.

LameWolf

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.

On holidays, we fill up at breakfast at the hotel, that way we don't need lunch.
Days out - yes, I pack up boxes of sandwiches, salad, fruit, and take bottles of filtered tapwater and/or flasks of tea.

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

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

Well said, Upsidedown Bear. :T

Happytravelling

Well I'm a few years older than the OP's kids and we rarely have takeaways.

A couple of years ago, we'd have one every month, but when we decided to go on a big holiday, they got cut so we could put the money to something worthwhile (although as we went to the US, we did have a McDonalds, just to see the difference!) I learned how to cook our favourites, and find I prefer my own to the takeaway versions.

Its difficult to find decent coffee where I live, not that I eat/ drink and walk, but I would visit a coffee shop. I've had coffee in the US and Spain that was just so smooth that it didn't require sugar. Probably a good job I can't get anything like it here, else my coffee spends would increase!

Had a Mcdonalds this year after accompanying family to hospital and just being too hungry to drive all the way home, but otherwise, can't say I'd choose it.

I know people who have a takeaway 5 days a week but balk at spending the cost of a takeway at the butchers. Now thats what I find weird