Takeaways

Nuttynanna2

Last takeaway was July last year. A curry with plain rice. Cost 50 pounds and was bland and watery.

£50 for a takeaway curry! You woz robbed.

DS and I had a Chinese takeaway in January 2023 when he was staying with me after my hip surgery. I can’t remember having another. I had something called a Wandering Dragon. It was delicious! DD has ordered takeaway sometimes when I’ve been at hers, but it’s not something I would do for myself. Not worth it if there's only you.

We have takeaway from a lovely Indian restaurant near us, or fish and chips on occasion, never as a regular thing just when we fancy it. Nothing wrong with it. Can't see why are some are being so high and mighty about it.

I've been having takeaways delivered from our local Chinese for 25 years. Only rarely now because of the cost. I have them delivered because driving over to get one myself would probably mean losing my parking space.

We used to have fish and chips regularly, but that's moved into the realms of luxury now. My husband used to order pizza sometimes, but the toppings are never authentic and the cost is astronomical so that's of the list now.

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

Gasp! Noooooo! Whatever next? I am going to have to clutch my pearls.

The string my pearls were on has broken from so much clutching.

No takeaways or delivery services here either. There are times when we would just love to pick up the phone and order something tasty.
We have family living near London and they can order in any cuisine from a choice of so many restaurants. Wouldn't change our rural life though.

How weird that someone didn’t realise people had regular takeaways,it’s 2025,not the 1950’s!!

We used to have one every Saturday,we don’t so much now because they are expensive.But I will often pick up a burger from McD’s on the way back from the gym on a Saturday.

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

Which planet have you been living on OP?
I assume you are attempting irony?

We have a good Bangladeshi take away and an excellent restaurant specialising in South Indian food that does takeaways
I miss the treat since mr I always did the pick ups
We also have a good Italian restaurant five mins walk away. It’s my grandchildren’s favourite birthday treat. Occasionally we order pizza from there, so good and nothing like a freezer pizza from the oven

I agree that a really good pizza place will make pizzas that are nothing like supermarket pizzas. There is a place near one of my daughter’s that does charred sourdough bases and really fantastic toppings.

Why so critical of other people’s lifestyles?

Why not have a delicous pizza, Indian, Chinese, Thai or any number of other cuisines delivered? It puts money into local businesses and provides jobs for chefs, kitchen staff and delivery people rather than giving it all to supermarkets?

There is no comparison with shop-bought pizza from the freezer - which is assuming that everyone has one stuffed with food. Running a big freezer is expensive. I don't have one, just an 80/20 fridge-freezer. I use the 20% for frozen veg and a small supply of home-cooked meals.

I would rather have a fresh cooked meal delivered from a local restaurant than ultra processed food full of additives and preservatives. Nowadays, I only cook with a two draw airfryer which a round pizza wouldn’t fit anyway.

I am widowed and don’t often have anyone to go out with in the evening to dine. I don’t mind dining alone in the daytime but feel less comfortable in the evenings when restaurants are full of couples and groups. That I can ring any number of restaurants which use Deliveroo or Just Eat and have a never-ending variety of delicious meals delivered to my door in 30 minutes is fantastic. I treat myself once a week. It isn’t extraordinary at all.

Greyduster

DS and I had a Chinese takeaway in January 2023 when he was staying with me after my hip surgery. I can’t remember having another. I had something called a Wandering Dragon. It was delicious! DD has ordered takeaway sometimes when I’ve been at hers, but it’s not something I would do for myself. Not worth it if there's only you.

I used to order Indian or Chinese when I was on my own with the children, eat half, freeze half

The only time I've had a takeaway is just occasionally for a family party, to save me cooking now that I'm ancient.
Ive never had one on my own.
But I would if I was richer...I think it's a great idea.

I think it's a great idea too if you don't always want to cook.

I think my mother-in-law should order a takeaway occasionally - I'm sure she'd like it as she likes them on Christmas eve. She won't even have fish and chips because "we aren't sitting outside on the seafront" - but she does have several good restaurants less than a mile away.

For many years we have had a Christmas eve takeaway with our family. It means we can exchange gifts and take the pressure off everyone.
We've had lots of different ones - Thai, Chinese, Indian, "Ghurka", Sushi... I don't want to cook for up to 24 on Christmas eve.

We're grandparents, so we're older, but no-one has mentioned friends who struggle to stand for long in the kitchen - home-delivery cooked food is so useful.

Ppersonally, by the time, you have gone online to find the menu, made the decision, made the phone call, waited for the delivery, dealt with the washing up, cleared the wrappings and got rid of the smell that pervades the house, you might as well drive to the restaurant and eat at a nicely laid table and an attentive waiter, choose your meal. chat over a glass of wine until someone brings it to your table, who then clears the table and you relax over a coffee and drive/walk home to a fresh smelling house, no wrappings and no washing up, why on earth order a takeaway?

(Yes, there are times, of distress, emergency, ill health etc when they are the solution, but how often do those occur, may be 6 times in the last 10 or 20 years.)

Take aways get delivered to our house!

For some of us, Monica, it is not as simple as going to a restaurant.
Ill health means eating in a restaurant is problematic for me. A persistent cough for years means, I either feel sick when eating, am embarrassed at disturbing others with the constant hacking cough or struggle to finish my meal.
A least with takeaway, I can do all this in the comfort of my own home. There is no pleasure in eating out, much to my annoyance.

We all have a different take on this!

P.S, I know exactly what to order and and can access the menu in seconds!

The joy of a takeaway is that it's at home. No having to dress up and go out - pleasant lounging around, sipping wine until it arrives. The wrappings go back in the delivery bag to the bin. And takeaways are
generally eaten, slob like, in front of the TV. And, the house smells when I cook.

Occasional takeaways are relaxed bliss.

I order on the app takes about 10 seconds, and the dishes go in the dishwasher. I go out to restaurants as well! A relative works part time at a takeaway, on a weekend evening they take orders totalling thousands.

Personally, by the time, you have gone online to find the menu, made the decision, made the phone call, waited for the delivery, dealt with the washing up, cleared the wrappings and got rid of the smell that pervades the house, you might as well drive to the restaurant and eat at a nicely laid table and an attentive waiter, choose your meal. chat over a glass of wine until someone brings it to your table, who then clears the table and you relax over a coffee and drive/walk home to a fresh smelling house, no wrappings and no washing up, why on earth order a takeaway ?
Comparing apples and oranges M0nica !
Different scenarios, different experiences, each to his or her own.
(And nobody has to forgo the wine because they are the “designated driver”)

We are lucky in the developed world that we have so much choice.

And life is about exactly that for our house.

We eat in with home cooked food.

We picnic out with home cooked food

We picnic out with bought food

We eat in from a traditional takeaway, like Indian, Chinese or fish and chips.

We eat in and go more expensive by ordering from favoured restaurants.

Then we eat out either to good pubs/restaurants.

The we go really up market and eat at posh restaurants

We are so lucky to have so much choice and we can do any or none of it.

I don’t stand on judgement on any body’s choice. I assume that no one will be so small minded enough to judge my choice.

Doodledog

I can't believe that people can't believe that others do things differently from them .

Great comment.
Strange isn’t it!

We occasionally have one at a DD’s - they have a very good SE Asian restaurant a short distance away. And the Gdcs all like rice, noodles and sushi.
At home, never, though we do have the odd ready meal - dh is very partial to a Waitrose Nasi Goreng.