Takeaways

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😱

Varian you don’t know what you are missing

I suppose so but I prefer my own.

Waiting- raita

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

Barleyfields - 🤣🤣🤣 you’re welcome anytime 🍛

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. 🤣