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I think it’s a good idea....nothing ruins a journey like a noisy eater!! 😡
Apart from miserable gits.
Drac obviously likes a couple of packets of Monster Munch on the train...
As long as we can ban cackling and tinny headphone beats as well, I'm in.
And smelly people, especially cyclists on trains :p
why on earth are you getting public transport ?
Gonna be bloody starving after a 5hr train to London!
Ban Eating on Public Transport
That would dramatically reduce Flashy's foie gras intake.
yeah bus **** er
As long as this doesn't include long haul flights, I'm in.
🤣 @PP!
The nearest Flashy gets to public transport is the cocktail bar of an A380! 😀
an A380
Just a bus with wings, innit.
Drac obviously likes a couple of packets of Monster Munch on the train…
Roasted Beef flavour.
Pickled Onion is a better choice for a crowded bus. Just make sure you brush the crumbs out of your string vest before you stand up
an A380
Just a bus with wings, innit.
Might as well call it an air-bus. Or something.
Anyway, I'm not missing out on the petty opportunity to buy as much tea, coffee and snacks as possible on the train in order to close the financial between first and standard class dramatically. (we used to be able to take 1st class so we had a decent chance of actually working, not any more.)
Pickled Onion is a better choice for a crowded bus.
Nah, Scampi Fries FTW...
It's the solution! Will stop kids getting fat won't it. Won't it?
It’s the solution! Will stop kids getting fat won’t it. Won’t it?
They should just make all the doors and seats really narrow to stop all the fat kids getting on until they've walked off some of the chub.
Or take out all the seats and encourage erratic driving (many bus companies already do this) so that they have to hang on for dear life and don't have a hand free for gob-stuffing.
Another idea from someone who thinks public transport is all about just popping across towm
Talk about nanny state.
Who's gonna police this anyway they can barely check our tickets between stops sue to over crowding
Just ban public transport and make people walk.
Ban eating in cars
Ah Scampi fries, goes great with my cans of Stella on the train.
Luckily I travel first class and a "free" cup of coffee and a meal. I presume the eating ban would only be for the people in the "lower" class carriages?
Ban eating in cars
Ban e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ cars
It won’t end well if somebody tells me off for eating my post drinkies kebab on the train on the way home!😁🤮
One of my Facebook friends on this topic this morning.
Rant time.... so some leftie think tank is talking of banning food on trains to combat obesity. I could hardly contain myself reading this. 😂 Which blithering spunk nugget came up with this little gem eh..? Do they honestly think that not offering chubby Charlotte a cheese and tomato sandwich on her 20 minute journey to her mates, where she’s planning on destroying 6 pints of strongbow, 20 jäger bombs and a doner kebab, is really going to make a difference? Nah me neither.
How on earth does anybody think this is enforceable or anything other than a gesture. Buses only have a driver, are they gonna stop the bus and check who's eating ?
The buses I [ occasionally ] catch in Manchester reek of skunk - the upstairs seems to be a mobile cannabis den , the only thing the driver could do would be to phone ahead top the police and stop the bus.That won't happen for skunk so it aint gonna happen for monster munch .
Some of these suggestions to reduce obesity are so ****ing patronising and stupid its incredible that people have the audacity to suggest them.
at this rate you'll not be able to smack your sausage on the bus. And we call this progress!
is there any data to support eating on public transport leads to obesity?
Things that annoy me on public transport:
1. feet on seats
2. children being given phones to play games on with the volume on
3. lazy parents who just give their whinging kids food or phones to shut them up instead of engaging with them properly
4. litter
5. People who think it's your problem if they are sat in your reserved seat
6. Overpowering aftershave or perfume, especially when combined with end of working day body odour
7. Whatsapp or other annoying messenger sounds constantly going off
I feel like a grumpy old git writing that list
Well I for one think its a great idea.
Smoking managed to get banned, why not eating.
What's wrong with families nowadays sitting together at a table and eating their meals properly.
Eating meals together is so important. You get to engage with the family. Learn how to use cutlery (most children today eat finger food). Learn table manners. Learn that food is something to be prepared and eaten with love, not just something to stuff down your neck for every waking moment.
The litter problem is huge in this country, its caused from takeaways and snacking. The rat population is huge and if we can curb some people from eating the mostly unhealthy snacks that you can buy almost everywhere, then that's a tick in my book.
Of course not all parents have time to prepare proper meals, however I'm sure they know that unhealthy snacking (in between meals) isn't good for children.
So because some people can't plan or exercise self control all must suffer.
Gonna be a long (hungry)journey from Edinburgh to London now
Or in your fantasy world do we have to prove we have been on the public transport long enough to justify eating ?
Fyi not all eating is as you generalise *unhealthy snacking* .... I'll often have my lunch on the way to somewhere on the train as my journey takes place over lunch time and I have little else important to do to pass the time....
Well I for one think its a great idea.
Smoking managed to get banned, why not eating.
Because eating is a basic need.
Remarkably it’s also possible to both be someone who eats on a train and can sit down to have a meal with the family.
Its also possible for kids to snack between meals and still be healthy.
Smoking managed to get banned, why not eating
But someone eating a kebab on a train doesnt give me cancer!
while you could ban fast food outlets in stations it would help and only allow salads and fruit to be sold why should you? Sometimes after a long day all you want is a burger. Doesnt mean you are obese.
This is down to people and their lack of self control and stresses of modern life. My work balance-life balance is terrible at the moment but I still don't eat shitty fast food all the time because of it.
The most eye-catching announcement is the proposed ban on eating and drinking on public transport.
This is squarely aimed at children on the way to and from school and so will only apply on local transport - trains, buses, trams and metro networks.
Inter-city trains with buffet cars will not be covered, the CMO said.
The idea is to discourage snacking.
There’s some actual sensible suggestions in her report.
Phasing out all marketing, advertising and sponsorship of unhealthy food and drink
Banning food and drink on local transport with exceptions for water, breast-feeding and medical conditions
Free water refills to be available at all food outlets, transport stations and public sector buildings
Regular car-free weekends across the country to encourage physical activity
Changing planning rules to make it harder to open fast-food takeaways
Extending the sugar tax to include milk-based drinks
Adding VAT to unhealthy food products that are currently zero-rated, such as cakes
Capping calories in food served out-of-the home to combat rising portion sizes
Consider plain packaging - as for tobacco - for junk food, if firms fail to reduce sugar, fat and salt in their products quickly enough
All nurseries, registered childminders and schools to adopt water and milk-only policies
Yup so kids eat before they get on the bus or after when they pop into the sweatshop from getting off the bus.
Our local kebab shops, chinese and various other haute cuisine establishments are open at school lunchtimes, surely that's a no brainer, and easily addressed by local council licensing.
I'd just ban takeaways tbh, helps combat fatties and the litter epidemic in one fell swoop. 😉
What’s wrong with families nowadays sitting together at a table and eating their meals properly.
Eating meals together is so important. You get to engage with the family. Learn how to use cutlery (most children today eat finger food). Learn table manners. Learn that food is something to be prepared and eaten with love, not just something to stuff down your neck for every waking moment.
Ffs. I had sandwiches and stuff on the train with my son on Friday on the way to London (we didn’t take cutlery or a tablecloth!).
Do you think I feed him all his meals on public transport ?
Or maybe just because we had a busy morning and then a 3 hour journey that spanned his lunchtime 🙄
Our local kebab shops, chinese and various other haute cuisine establishments are open at school lunchtimes, surely that’s a no brainer, and easily addressed by local council licensing.
Very easily. Our local schools don’t allow the kids out at lunchtime which allows me to decide if I’m going to treat myself to a takeaway.
Things that annoy me on public transport:
8. Grumpy old gits complaining about having to engage with other humans
Our local schools don’t allow the kids out at lunchtime
The Domino's delivery guy is at the gate of my kids school every day with a car full of pizzas that kids have ordered online.
Lunch in shifts at school ?
If my wife wasn't a teacher and I didn't know that some kids get an inordinate amount of money for lunches I'd call crap on that perchy but I'd believe it.
When I were a lad 20 years ago now mind......I got 2 quid and I bought a pie and a Chelsea bun at the bakers.
5. People who think it’s your problem if they are sat in your reserved seat
FYI, you having a seat reservation is a suggestion, rather than a guarantee of a seat. Read the T&Cs.
Oh, and a lot of you need to chill the **** out. How is it possible that you get so wound up about what or when other people are eating?
So when my sister is travelling on the train from York to London with her 6 & 4yr old daughters to visit our Mum, the kids aren't allowed to eat?
Yeah that's never going to happen. They live on fruit snacks, carrot sticks, grapes, apple pieces, olives....
They'd have a complete meltdown if they were denied food on a 2hr train journey!
If my wife wasn’t a teacher and I didn’t know that some kids get an inordinate amount of money for lunches I’d call crap on that perchy but I’d believe it.
3 large pizzas for £17.97 delivered on the Dominos website today.
6 kids throw in £3 each.....
Do Deliveroo and Just Eat deliver to moving trains and buses?
Asking for a friend
Very easily. Our local schools don’t allow the kids out at lunchtime which allows me to decide if I’m going to treat myself to a takeaway.
I applaud your local authority.
FWIW it's not just the kebab shops, the petrol station next to the school has a display of energy drinks the size of Kuwait. It must be a joy teaching kids in the afternoon after they've necked half a litre of that shite.
Our local schools don’t allow the kids out at lunchtime
What?
Even the 18 year old ones?
The Domino’s delivery guy is at the gate of my kids school every day with a car full of pizzas that kids have ordered online.
That’s disgusting they shouldn’t allow that at the school, they should only allow it from independent pizza shops.
Lets tackle obesity.......with yet another dumb idea
How about force supermarkets to raise the price of crap food and lower the price of healthy food? 4 quid for a can of pringles should do the trick.
Yes Drac - I'm not stupid. Yes not all snacks eaten in between meals are unhealthy and yes eating is a need. You're being facetious.
I do realise that not all snacking is bad, not all people who sit on public transport are going to get cancer from food, not all families have snacks that are unhealthy.
But something needs to be done.
Most children I see coming in and out of school seem to be snacking. They probably haven't been given a proper breakfast. They may not even be getting a proper evening meal.
Of course something has to be done there’s a good list amongst the silly suggestion of banning eating on local transport. Comparing it with smoking and odd tangent that some kids don’t sit at a table for a meal was well strange.
Kids are pretty much constantly hungry no matter if they’ve had breakfast, lunch or due an evening meal they’ll eat.
I’ve 2 teenage kids and they’re bottomless pits just ask for food even after a good meal. Just because you see kids eating crisps and sweets does not mean they’re not eating well elsewhere.
Bring back proper PT in schools starjump and burpee the fat kids till they puke.
Do it every day
Children who sit down with their families (all my family members do it, as do most of my friends), tend not to eat snacks in between meals or the type of snacks that cause obesity.
I'm only using smoking, because everyone thought it wouldn't work as a prevention. If you look around now, hardly anyone smokes in public.
Yeah you keep believing that bunnyhop and that no one smokes in public, except beer gardens, bus stops, outside shops, offices and in the street.
Even the 18 year old ones?
6th form is the only exception.
Children who sit down with their families (all my family members do it, as do most of my friends), tend not to eat snacks in between meals or the type of snacks that cause obesity.
We sit down together as a family for every meal. At least twice a day, three times at the weekends
My kids would eat crisps and sweeties inbetween times until they burst and I'm forced into patrolling the corridors most nights like one of Trumps Border guards to try and intercept ninja raids on the kitchen.
I also periodically turn over their bedrooms in search of contraband, just like in the Shawshank Redemption. I've never come away from a raid empty handed.
lol! 🙂
Bring back proper PT in schools starjump and burpee the fat kids till they puke.
Certainly in the cadets, even 25 years ago they were beginning to say that press-ups shouldn't be used as punishments because of the risk of injury or causing illness.
Assault courses were starting to get dumbed down too, they'd often take out the water splash or the high wall.
The overwhelming sense of "everyone should be able to take part" meant that things that pushed kids over the limit kept being cut back. The way to do it is the opposite - tell them to keep trying until they can do it.
Do Deliveroo and Just Eat deliver to moving trains and buses?
Asking for a friend
Seen a few posts on social media where folk have met delivery drivers on platforms...
Perchy you need to build a wall around the snack cupboard and make your kids pay for it.
So when my sister is travelling on the train from York to London with her 6 & 4yr old daughters to visit our Mum, the kids aren’t allowed to eat?
They said local transport on the radio before.
As an ex user of night buses and last tubes (nothing much worse than someone getting on with a dirty kebab then eating it the way only drunks can), I'm all for a ban 😉 But it penalises those who do have a bit of consideration for other passengers.
I pick Jr up after school off one bus, then we get straight on another to go up to judo. He has to eat something, but it's fruit or something that doesn't stink the bus up. Egg sandwiches on coach trips in June? I simply won't be there (reference anyone?)
Perchy you need to build a wall around the snack cupboard and make your kids pay for it.
Not if they impeach me first.
The overwhelming sense of “everyone should be able to take part” meant that things that pushed kids over the limit kept being cut back. The way to do it is the opposite – tell them to keep trying until they can do it.
😉
The Domino’s delivery guy is at the gate of my kids school every day with a car full of pizzas that kids have ordered online
KFC used to deliver to the nearby military training area for the troops who were fed up with rations whilst on exercise 🙂
Anyway, the Germans have managed to ban eating on local public transport so I can't see why we can't (oh hang on, yes I can see how we'd screw it up given current performance.............)
Anyway, the Germans have managed to ban eating on local public transport so I can’t see why we can’t
Ah! So it’s the EU telling us what to do, then we definitely need to prevent this from happening.
KFC used to deliver to the nearby military training area for the troops who were fed up with rations whilst on exercise
Yeah, I've ordered a takeaway to various training areas over the years. It must happen a fair bit as delivery drivers have never batted an eyelid when a bunch of armed and filthy looking reprobates have stepped out from the bushes at the lay-by they are directed to.
I also remember a kebab van that used to turn up outside the gate at 'The Tomato Factory' base in Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia. It was best not to ask where he got his kebab meat from, in a country where livestock had to navigate literal minefields to stay alive.
The nearest Flashy gets to public transport is the cocktail bar of an A380!
Except on evening flights when the bouncers enforce the no trainers rule.
They said local transport on the radio before.
As I pointed out earlier that's what the article on the Beeb said. Though of course it is an Internet norm to comment without reading the related article.
That’s disgusting they shouldn’t allow that at the school, they should only allow it from independent pizza shops.
Totally agree! 😀
So where can I set up street food stir fired rice noodle? 😅 Must healthier than pizza.
In the far east all the canteen food at school are delicious and rather cheap too. I remember having 4 different independent stalls at school feeding thousands (nearly 2k) during the break times. We had breakfast and lunch at school and yes we were constantly hungry.
During my primary school years I used to get 20p (equivalent of £) for breakfast and "lunch" (after school we still go home to have lunch btw again) and progressing to 40p in final year of primary school. 😃
For the noodle with tofu (meat in the middle) the best way to eat them is to drown them with chilli sauce (the western original Tabasco is the closest taste - oh ya the original Tabasco is weak ... very weak and I can drink them like water 🤣).
One of my Facebook friends on this topic this morning.
Rant time…. so some leftie think tank is talking of banning food on trains to combat obesity.
One person is talking about it, the media jumped on it like a tramp on chips and knees are jerking countrywide.
I can't possibly fathom how we came to have brexit.
Drac - no where did I say no one smoked - I said hardly anyone smoked. Maybe it's different where you live.
I think it's a great idea, you don't, we'll both have to agree to disagree.
Except on evening flights when the bouncers enforce the no trainers rule.
They turfed me out of my favourite seat on my last flight!
😎
They turfed me out of my favourite seat on my last flight!
To be fair, the pilot usually sits there.
It's only right he should get first dibs.
Drac – no where did I say no one smoked – I said hardly anyone smoked. Maybe it’s different where you live.
I think it’s a great idea, you don’t, we’ll both have to agree to disagree.
Sorry reduced but the scale to get there was way beyond just stopping kids having a snack on the bus.
I think it’s pointless but the other suggestions are pretty good so yes we have different views.
Bunnyhop, there’s nothing wrong with snacking. Both my kids snack everyday, I’m not going to make them hold out for dinner. Don’t be so judgemental without knowing what happens in other people’s lives.
My daughters swim first thing in the morning some mornings, do cross country running (lunch times and evenings), as well as ballet lessons once a week.
They are growing kids who are incredibly active, If they are hungry they snack. I’ll never remove the opportunity for them to snack as I think that is where obesity can come from. Lack of education and the removal of snacks or treats leads to a negative effect in my view. If my kids want a pizza they can have a pizza, it’s a balance as 99% of the time they eat proper home cooked food, using plates and knives and forks as well. My kids are not unique, all of their friends are very similar.
And where is your evidence for “most kids only eat finger food”?
I have absolutely no problem with children snacking on healthy food, fruit, salads, nuts, chopped up veg stick, etc.
However what this is about is obesity, meaning snacking on over salted, high in sugar drinks and snacks is a no no.
We used to give my nephew a snack box full of healthy bits and pieces (which I made up myself), not too much otherwise he wouldn't eat his meals.
We are mtbers so I'm guessing most of us have sporty children and children who partake in hobbies which require movement. Yes if you're taking a child to a tennis match straight from school it will need a snack.
What we are being told is that snacks of certain types that tend to make children overweight should be banned from public transport. I happen to support any effort to help children become healthier.
snacking on over salted, high in sugar drinks and snacks is a no no.
snacking excessively on over salted, high in sugar drinks and snacks is what's problematic, no? Everything in moderation, and all that.
She also called for a ban on eating and drinking on urban public transport with exceptions for drinking fresh water and eating and drinking for medical conditions
I can’t find where the suggestion was for unhealthy food only so even Tarquin and his carrot sticks with humus will be accountable if caught.
They said local transport on the radio before.
Yes, I found that little gem afterwards while wondering exactly how it would be enforced when there was an at-seat catering service!
Talking of enforcement though... a bunch of schoolkids on a bus or train, who exactly is going to stop them eating and drinking whatever they want? Ticket inspectors are few and far between. Police are far too under-resourced. So ultimately, there's no (cost-effective) method of preventing it.