Most ridiculous or inappropriate food you've seen being eaten on a train

[Intercity 225]

It goes without saying that people often eat on trains but what's the most ridiculous or inappropriate meal that you've witnessed someone eating on board?

To start things off, I've seen someone try to eat a large bowl of soup on a packed commuter train. They poured it from a flask and had bought their own bowl and spoon with them. Although the eater was seated the train was full with standing room only and luggage everywhere. Considering how messy soup can be, trying to eat a large bowl of it in that environment came across as a bit ridiculous!

 

[AlterEgo]

Didn't see it myself but there was an apocryphal story on Virgin WC of someone using the sockets to plug in a microwave to cook a ready meal.

 

[philjo]

An Indian couple sharing the table with me on a HST to Devon from Paddington - 1st class (Sunday morning so weekend 1st though no-one ever came to ask us to pay the upgrade before I got off at Exeter!).
They had a coolbox from which they unloaded lots of foil dishes of hot food - seemed to be curry and rice and several other dishes. I think the whole carriage could smell it! Also 10:30am seemed to be a stange time to be eating it!

 

[yorksrob]

I've been tempted to take a curry on the train, but haven't done so yet.

 

[47271]

Someone tucking into a Burger King in First Class on the 840ish Grand Central out of Sunderland a few weeks ago. Lots of vinegar pong filling the carriage, never mind that of the burger and chips. It takes a lot to surprise me, but I wasn't ready for that.

After the BK outrage sat as quiet as a mouse and got on with their work all the way to King's Cross.

 

[yorksrob]

Burger King's not so unusual, considering they sell it at a lot of stations.

 

[AlterEgo]

Someone tucking into a Burger King in First Class on the 840ish Grand Central out of Sunderland a few weeks ago. Lots of vinegar pong filling the carriage, never mind that of the burger and chips. It takes a lot to surprise me, but I wasn't ready for that.

After the BK outrage sat as quiet as a mouse and got on with their work all the way to King's Cross.

How is a Burger King "ridiculous or inappropriate"?

 

[WideRanger]

I've been tempted to take a curry on the train, but haven't done so yet.

Nothing quite compares to the aroma of a whole carriage of Curry and various deep fried food served out on long distance Indian trains.

 

[DasLunatic]

How is a Burger King "ridiculous or inappropriate"?

Because fast food is for the plebs who travel in Standard Class. Those who travel in First Class consume caviar, champagne and fine cakes at least seven times throughout the journey.

 

[yorksrob]

Nothing quite compares to the aroma of a whole carriage of Curry and various deep fried food served out on long distance Indian trains.

We need a curry train

 

[47271]

Burger King's not so unusual, considering they sell it at a lot of stations.

Oh I know, and call me old fashioned, but it was the full burger 'n' chips job with gallons of vinegar at breakfast time that I was slightly surprised by, especially on a train that wasn't exactly lacking in its own refreshment facilities in First Class.

 

[yorksrob]

Oh I know, and call me old fashioned, but it was the full burger 'n' chips job with gallons of vinegar at breakfast time that I was slightly surprised by, especially on a train that wasn't exactly lacking in its own refreshment facilities in First Class.

Maybe a bit early for breakfast then

GC do do quite a decent breakfast baguette I find.

 

[amateur]

Pork or bacon.

 

[47271]

Maybe a bit early for breakfast then [emoji38]

GC do do quite a decent breakfast baguette I find.

Yes, just what I was thinking at the time.

 

[yorksrob]

Pork or bacon.

I usually have the sausage one.

 

[J-2739]

Pork or bacon.

To be honest, pork and bacon isn't as bad as some as the other fried options mentioned...

I don't mind most food smells in trains, but the one that really gets me is fried egg. Absolute overpowering smell that practically leaves my eyes watering in a space of 5 minutes.

 

[yorksrob]

The only food smell I hate on a train are those dreadful sour cream and chive pringles.

 

[route:oxford]

Bananas, well more method than produce.

I was on a service to Manchester on a Friday evening as chaps on a gay stag weekend tried to out-do each other salaciously fellating bananas.

 

[Starmill]

Because fast food is for the plebs who travel in Standard Class. Those who travel in First Class consume caviar, champagne and fine cakes at least seven times throughout the journey.

Someone obviously hasn't experienced travel by Grand Central eh

 

[AndrewE]

If I am going north from Euston I always drop in to Guptas in Drummond St and get several hundred grams (or more) of mixed pakhora (aka Bhaji), a stuffed pepper/chillli or two and a few samosas. With a couple of cans of some sort of beer it means you can have a delicious feast long before the people around you have any access to food! Been going there for 20 if not 30 years now.

If the other passengers look down their noses I'm even happier at their chagrin when they see that the TTI doesn't turf me out of first class!

(n.b. I think they (Guptas) don't open much before midday, so it's bad news for southerners going north, but at least they can stock up for the last leg home!)
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[6Gman]

I've been tempted to take a curry on the train, but haven't done so yet.

Please don't!

 

[Aws87024]

We need a curry train

Already exists.....sort of
http://www.valleyrestaurants.co.uk/passagetoindia.php

 

[yorksrob]

Already exists.....sort of
http://www.valleyrestaurants.co.uk/passagetoindia.php

Wow, that's brilliant. One going up the Settle Carlisle would be good

 

[Philip Phlopp]

Camping stoves were fairly normal when the WHL was operated with steam heat stock. In winter, they weren't just for cooking.

 

[6Gman]

I've eaten a bowl of cereal on a Penzance - Liverpool.

On a day excursion from Crewe to Bournemouth many years ago we shared our compartment with an elderly Polish couple. The train left at something like 0715 and by Shrewsbury they were tucking into a whole roast chicken washed down with vodka.

Very nice and interesting couple (not least when they showed us the tattooed reference numbers from their concentration camp days!).

 

[47271]

It was an HST. Just wait until they go over to full 180 operation. That burger won't have seemed such a good idea once the full vibe started under the seat after Northallerton.

Someone obviously hasn't experienced travel by Grand Central eh

 

[Prestige15]

Chips and curry sauce and cheese and onion crisps

 

[Altnabreac]

I boarded the southbound WHL at Corrour once on a dark Sunday night in January.

There were 13 of us and all we had left to eat was a lot of Red Wine, pâté and oatcakes.

Got some funny looks coming out of the darkness.

 

[Calthrop]

I was on a service to Manchester on a Friday evening as chaps on a gay stag weekend tried to out-do each other salaciously fellating bananas.

In the unlikely event of my ever setting up a popular-type-music group or band: that is definitely the name that I'd give to it.

 

[Jamesb1974]

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