Offensive chips?

With you there, Mawbroon. I can't see any problem with a bag of wrapped chips on a short bus ride, but generally can't understand why people have to keep grazing food . Once I've had some breakfast I don't want anything else until about one or two in the afternoon, and then I don't want to buy something and walk along the street eating it -another pet hate.

Those bits of batter (scraps, maybe?) they sometimes throw on for free. Round here they ask "Wi' bits?". One fish shop's adopted that as its name.

They are very offensive.

No, I can see you could create mess & odour EATING on bus, but wrapped up is no problem at all.

I'm suitably chastened for my lack of empathy, and sheer greed, Maggie.
P.S. what are 'bits?' (and do they smell?)

I bet you're glad you started this thread, MissAdventure. Perhaps we should crowdfund to get you a fresh bag wi' bits.

But she wasn’t eating on public transport she had them wrapped up in her bag how can that be wrong or offensive what about consideration to her, Jane, she was paying to use public transport without doing anyone including the driver any harm whatsoever Total jobsworth and I m glad the second driver obviously was more human

We've often wondered the same. When we go with the DGS to a children's film, everyone seems to be filling their faces non-stop, and the place looks as if a bomb has gone off as we leave. The waste is incredible - half full buckets of popcorn all over the place. I'm not one for grumbling about the younger generation - honest! - but this is definitely a recent thing. We go to the Senior Vue most weeks. Granted we are all given a free coffee and biscuit, but I've never seen anyone buy any other food, even though it's lunchtime. The staff always look very disheartened when their "Can I get you anything else?"s fall on stony ground!

I agree Maw, this compulsion with stuffing one's face on public transport and in cinemas is quite annoying. I really do not want to smell a hotdog and fries when I am watching a film.

Not meant to reflect directly on OP but what is the compulsion I seem to see all around to EAT at every opportunity. A train journey to London ( 50 min max) will see people decanting sandwiches and packets of crisps or burgers and baguettes on to the table in front of them, and of course cans of fizzy drink (or beer) at whatever time of day. No cinema visit seems to be complete without a dustbin sized tub of popcorn (plus the fizzy drink) Even the more “refained ” theatregoers are no longer content with a discreet box of Black Magic but can be seen with a whole ruddy picnic! The noise, the smell and of course the resultant LITTER are all unpleasant to others. No wonder the nation is becoming obese.
PS I too enjoy fish and chips but prefer not to eat them out of doors, but to whisk them home onto plates heating in the oven.

Have experience far worse odours on public transport! Still sounds weird - if I buy chips from a chip shop I eat them immediately. I wouldn't like them cooled down that much.

That's what I should have done with my chips..

Our local paint shop hammers down lids and then gaffer tapes them.

The big plastic tubs, with the rim that lifts back on itself to open? I had to cut a hole in it, a poke my paintbrush into it. I couldn't fold the rim back.

There was a thread on MN about this and stories about new tins of paint being dropped and the lid pinging off, one on a station platform and one in a car ( in the passenger well). I know it’s hard to believe when you have just spent an hour trying to open a new tin of paint ?

I get that MaryEliza, but this was a new, unopened tin of paint. I can understand buses might not be the place for tins that have been opened. I can also see that paint in the wrong hands could spell trouble.

Some bus companies allow paint if it is sealed and inside another bag. Others don’t because of flammability and/or mess if lid pings off.

Someone I know was told recently that she couldn't board a bus carrying a tin of paint. She is reliant on public transport and there are no shops that sell paint within easy walking distance. How on earth did the bus driver think she should get the paint home? Or maybe he thought people living some distance from the shops shouldn't be planning to decorate their property....

Sometimes I think I'm so lucky to have no sense of smell at all!

You’ve got me dying for fish and chips with plenty of salt and lashings of vinegar!
On second thoughts replace the fish with two pieces of cod roe to which I will add two pickled walnuts!
It’s no use, I’m now dying of the hunger! I’ll nip into the kitchen and grab a mince pie!

It’s not being precious bluebelle it’s consideration for others.

Bus drivers do have a hard job and some passengers make it even harder.
Our local buses have a sign prominently displayed saying ‘do not talk to the driver while the bus is in motion’.
Despite this, one day when I was on the bus a man got on and sustained a conversation with the driver, standing at the side of the cab & holding forth. The driver was clearly unhappy with the situation & in the end I got up and drew the man’s attention to the notice.
He sat down, obviously annoyed, but several other passengers indicated their approval & when I got off the bus the driver thanked me for intervening.
If that’s being a snowflake I’m proud to be one.

No, I have no empathy at all. All I think about is chips.

Well then - he was doing his job. You should have just eaten them before getting on the bus or not bought them and cooked oven chips when you got home or just not had chips. How can you not appreciate he was doing his job and he had absolutely no way of knowing that you wouldn’t eat them on the bus ( and then some other passenger might have complained about him). Have you no empathy with working people who are charged with ensuring rules are followed and if not the buck stops with them?

Well sorry but I'm not happy with hot food on public transport. I used to have the 'joy' of travelling back on the late train from Liverpool Street' known to all as the Vomit Comet. Having seen/smelt several drunk young men and women enjoying their Macdonald's or similar and on one occasion someone vomiting back into the bag I am really averse to any hot food being taken onto buses and trains.

Yes, I imagine they did smell. Salt, vinegar, and chip-like. I put them in a carrier bag as the bus pulled up, so they were at the top of the bag.