Eating in the car

[rusnak]

I'm totally OCD about all of my vehicles being kept as near museum clean as possible. Having said that, yeah I eat in the car. It gives me something to obsess over and clean/ restore.

Even total neat freaks have to eat. If I had a private jet, it had better have a galley. I can't believe that Honda launched the new jet without one. They corrected that in the "Elite" model. All of the emphasis on pilot controls, they just don't understand that the guy writing the check wants a comfortable nap, something to eat, and to take a dump in relative comfort and privacy.

[Geronimo '74]

Never in my personal car.
My work car is a mess.
If I'm ever in an accident, EMT will need a vacuum before the jaws of life...

[wdfifteen]

MrsWD is the honey badger of in-car dining. She'd eat a Made-Rite and fries while driving if I wasn't in the car.

[WPOZZZ]

Since Covid hit, I have noticed a proliferation of people sitting in their cars eating meals. So what kind of critters do you guys get in your cars? My gf swapped out cars with me and took the 535i. I now have my X3 back and there were some cockroaches in the car when I went to get some things out of there late at night. I killed a few, but a couple got away, so I bombed the car. The next day I found about 6 more critters in there.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

You ever notice how its always the germ freakoid people who consistently get sick?

Same idea.

I’m the least germaphobe guy you’ll find. For me it’s more about the lingering smell, greasy fingerprints, and food falling down into crevices.

Relevant story, riding back to my in-laws’ place with my wife’s sister and her husband in his GTi, before we started our two hour drive we picked up Taco Bell. I was the passenger so I got nachos, because I love nachos. A few minutes later while stuck in traffic we get nailed by a Dodge Ram that wasn’t paying attention. My nachos were plastered across the dash and windshield of his car. Until the day he sold it, he told me he always smelled nacho cheese when he turned on the HVAC system.

[WPOZZZ]

After he sold it, you should have told him, "Don't worry about it, it's nacho car anymore!"

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I don’t. Water is fine and I admit to the occasional coffee (violating my own rule) but that’s it. A car isn’t a dining room. I avoid drive thrus too - can’t stand them. They encourage eating in the car which is disgusting to me, and half the time they fk up the order and you won’t discover it until you’re down the road... you gonna go back at that point and complain?

I just go inside - it’s nicer and more personal anyway. It doesn’t take all that much longer.

Cars have carpet which is a horrible choice for dining areas. Would you carpet your dining room? Then don’t eat in a carpeted vehicle with a zillion inaccessible nooks and crannies (unless you’re a cockroach or mouse).

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

After he sold it, you should have told him, "Don't worry about it, it's nacho car anymore!"

I will drink coffee in my car, always with a cup with a lid. And on long road trips I’ll grab pistachios to keep me busy, but that’s a little different. I don’t really like fast food and enjoy dining in restaurants so I guess that makes it easy for me to resist.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

After he sold it, you should have told him, "Don't worry about it, it's nacho car anymore!"

LOL .... I'm gonna add roasted peanuts in the shell to my list and pretend it's a Texas Roadhouse too!

[dyhunter]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

MrsWD is the honey badger of in-car dining. She'd eat a Made-Rite and fries while driving if I wasn't in the car.

MMMmmm, Made-rite, My dad was in a nursing home in Greenville until this past spring. I may have consumed a few of them in my visits. Very messy.

[dad911]

Coffee in an insulated travel mug almost daily in my truck.

A few weeks after I bought it (used from a dealer) I could tell it was a smoked-in vehicle. I was rather upset, it was an as-is sale. We tried everything, so I reached out to the dealer. He took it for a day, smoke gone never to return.

Cure? Coffee grounds and an ozonator.

[GH85Carrera]

When I am in the local area I just never see the need to eat in a car. I prefer a table and indoor eating. I might grab something "to go" but I take it home to eat.

With the pandemic, many restaurants have closed the dining rooms and on my recent trip there was no option but to eat in the car. And then go to a gas station to wash hands.

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Please.

I do it all the time, especially the last six years driving all over the East Coast.

There is no way I am sitting down to have lunch on the road, especially if I am driving alone. My wife packs underway snacks for the love of god.

That is why the vacuum was invented. Oh, and I keep this thing in the car called a plastic trash bag. Yikes!!!

Looks like I just lost a sale on my FJ

Exactly!

I spend way too much time in my vehicles to not eat in them . Hell, I even have a cup holder on my Harley. I can never be that OCD and paranoid about dropping a piece of food. That's why I have shop vacs and cleaning stuff. In over 35 yrs of driving , I've never had any food spill disasters. Splashed some coffee here and there that was easily cleaned.

Matter of fact, I'm sitting in my truck having coffee and a cranberry scone and yogurt as I type this!



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[Zeke]

I ate my breakfast in the truck every day I was working on a jobsite. I had my lunch and snacks too, but I usually ate them standing next to or sitting on the tailgate.

It's how contractors live. And my truck is immaculate.

[shadowjack1]

For me it's not about keeping the car clean. It's about sitting down and enjoying a meal. I can clean a car with the best of them.

[JackDidley]

I used to do it a lot. I also used to clean the interior a lot. Now I do not do either. It gets dusty but not messy.

[stevej37]

$16.95 at Amazon...less the food!

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by dyhunter

MMMmmm, Made-rite, My dad was in a nursing home in Greenville until this past spring. I may have consumed a few of them in my visits. Very messy.

Was it the Bretheren Community facility? MrsWD was construction manager there for a few years. The Greenville Made-Rite is the only one I've ever been to. It isn't part of the Iowa based chain, it's the real, local deal. Cars line up at the drive thru 6 deep at lunch time.

[stevej37]

^^^ Is it good? The pic looks like just ground beef with pickles on top.

[wdfifteen]

It's basically a Sloppy Joe, or Manwich.