Takeaways

Ooh ive seen delivery bikes waiting for coffee and cake!

I had absolutely no idea you could get coffee and cake delivered, being a country bumpkin.

We’ve never had one, we pick up fish and chips a couple of times a year.

Fish and chips is a takeaway!

All this reminded me of an amusing incident during lockdown. My GD who was living with at the time was involved in a remote lesson . A fellow student raised her hand and said “Have we nearly finished ,Miss? My pizza delivery is at the door.”

We still laugh at my daughter Re takeaways.
She phoned up for a pizza. The assistant asked for the address.
She told him. He said thats opposite us she said thats correct.if you look up I’m waving at you
That’s not the same daughter as the coffee and cake.

The daughter ordering a pizza is now an amazing cook with a blog on FB. 😁👽

We have Indian food delivered 3/4 times a year, my days of having multiple spices in a cupboard (which lose their pungency in time) and catering for many have long. About £20 for us both, it’s a treat.

I’m actually having 8 of my friends over on Saturday for an Indian Takeaway - shock, horror 😱😱😱

Ooh, crazyH, you slovenly hussy! (Can I come please?!)

We have never had food delivered, and only ever had one takeaway meal in the last 32 years.
There are no delivery services to our village, and the takeaway sauce stained the kitchen work surface!
We do eat out almost every week though.

Why is it "extraordinary" to have a takeaway delivered?

It's more extraordinary that someone thinks it's extraordinary

Pretty much everything can be delivered these days so why not?

Our favourite Indian restaurant closed last year. We regularly had takeaways from there so now we have a takeaway bag from Asda and it's almost as nice and far cheaper.

I do my own small raiti to go with it.

The night my husband was admitted to hospital my son was coming to pick me up so I waited outside from 10.30 to 11 pm.

Every few minutes a deliveroo or taxi pulled up with takeaway food. People were watching out for them from the foyer and ran out in their nightclothes to grab their food! I could not believe it. 🤣

Barleyfields - 🤣🤣🤣 you’re welcome anytime 🍛

We had a Thai take away delivered during Covid, it was close to inedible.
It was the first we had ordered in about 5 years, we’ve not ordered one since!
I don’t consider fish and chips a take away, we have it probably once a month, I love good fish and chips.

If we fancy a takeaway (delivery) then that’s what we have, especially when the weather is dreadful.

We eat out at least once a week, usually two, if going out is not a possibility, then it’s a delivered meal from a favourite restaurant.

varian

Apparently there are people who regularly "phone for a takeaway" - and hot food gets delivered to their home! Extraordinary!

We have never had a takeaway except perhaps fish and chips from a fish and chip shop, maybe two or three times a year, usually at the seaside and eaten on the beach - avoiding marauding seagulls!

Even if you can't be bothered to cook, why would you "phone for a pizza" when you could easily transfer a frozen pizza from your freezer to your oven in less time and at half the cost?

Different ways of living i guess 🤷‍♀️...no right or wrong

How is fish and chips not a takeaway? Unless you're sitting down and eating it in a restaurant, you're 'taking it away' to eat at home (or having it delivered).

Barleyfields me neither and I live in London.

I had an Indian takeaway about 20 years ago and it was disgusting. My local fish and chip shop closed and yet another Indian takeaway opened. There is not a decent fish and chip shop for miles.

I do not care what people do, it is their money, just do not litter my lawn with the rubbish.

Many years ago, I was pregnant and in hospital on bed rest for months.
They local chippie would deliver takeaway on a Saturday evening to the long term patients.
The hospital food was so bad, that nursing staff were just glad they were eating.

Takeaway deliveries are common here. Once a month we have some sort of takeaway. I am certainly not lazy and am a good cook. Now and again, my chronic ill health means I just can't be bothered cooking.
Indian and Cinese takeaway taste far better than anything I make.

I found the OP's post quite patronising. Initially, I thought it was tongue in cheek.

Millie making your own waiting is surely missing the point.

I make my own raita when I make my own curry but on a takeaway night I do nothing.

Waiting- raita

I suppose so but I prefer my own.

Varian you don’t know what you are missing

Marydoll
I still think it must be a joke. Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for about 30 years you can’t possibly be shocked that people have regular takeaways.
Our local brilliant Indian takeaway has been there for over 40 years.
The OP takes me back years on GN when a member had a touch of the vapours because people were watching daytime TV. 😱