Subway Eaters Now Exposed!

10 or 20 years ago people ate on the subway and no one cared. The assholes that move to this city now and create these stupid websites should go back to Kansas or where ever they came from. New York is the subway, the good and the bad. The fact that someone would be bored enough and stupid enough to create a website like this is an insult to New York City. Go back to your parents you spoiled brat.

All I have taken away from this is that subway eaters seem by and large to be a pretty cute bunch.

"it smells"?

welcome to New York. you should be so lucky that the only offensive thing about city life is that things smell here.

you could live on knapp st in brooklyn during august when the pungent essences of the sewage processing plant wafts throughout the neighborhood.

Lol ! I have to agree partially with the asshole that created this "Snitch Site" . We have people that are for a lack of a better term, "Ignorant fucks" ! You all know the type, They get on the train with some smelly food and gorge like they haven't eaten in weeks ! Then those same folks leave the trash from whatever they ate under the seat ,or on it .

i wish there were less black/hispanic bums and obnoxious jewish mothers on the subways

Why do you care who's on the subway asshole, get a car if you don't like it.

FOOD IS SO GROSS OMG IT SCARES MEEEEEE!!@@!

repeat offender? top-middle and bottom-right.

What a waste of time.

what about throwing up on the subway.. is that cool?

Only if you don't proceed to eat it.

Once, someone sat next to me and opened a damn Blimpie! I didn't say anything until an oily peice of lettuce landed on my slacks. Then I REALLY blacked out on dude.

I eat on the subway when I'm hungry and too busy to stop and eat somewhere. It's usually a bagel, a slice, or some sort of energy bar, but if you've got a problem with it, I'm more than happy to listen to your concerns and promptly tell you to shove it up your ass.

If you don't appreciate eating on the subway, go back to the suburbs where you can run down pedestrians while eating in your clean, safe, automobile while attempting to drive. Call me when cell phone service hits the underground--that is when I'll start a blog about people annoying the shit out of me. Sometimes people are hungry and need to eat on the run because of time constraints. Of course, a jobless loser that starts a stupid blog about eating on the subway might not understand that.

Yeah, jobless loser and one that'ts probably got a trust fund. The city is losing it's edge because of the kind of people that create these websites, Hopefully crime will rise enough again someday and they'll leave. If you have a city that's to safe these are the people that move here. The city is like a clean white amusement park now, I'd rather feel less safe and see these jerks go back to where they came from.

If you don't appreciate eating on the subway, go back to the suburbs where you can run down pedestrians while eating in your clean, safe, automobile while attempting to drive...

...says the wannabe "urbannite" who probably hails from the suburbs himself. See my post above. Eating on the subway is a VERY recent phenomenon in NYC, so it's the natives-- "urbannites"-- who would have the biggest problem with it, especially since they're most aware of the huge rat problem here.

Great suggestion, mate. Tell me, can my straw man sit in the passenger seat and feed me while I drive?

What if they shared?

Honestly I don't care if they eat..just do not get it all over the floor and seats.

I think clipping the nails is worse than eating

I once saw a woman break open some kind of bologna stick. It kind of looked like a summer sausage but it had the consistency of pate. She fed herself as well as hand fed her companion. I watched in horror as he sucked the meat goo from her fingers. Just moments before both were standing up with a firm grip on the pole. Yak......

I still think gum popping is worse......... I would love to gather all of the gum poppers of the world and put them through some kind of Clockwork orange event in which their eyes are held open for hours as they are held audience to other gum poppers. Only, no eye droppers....

Anybody who eats on the train deserves to be smacked. I'm completely serious. I can't think of anything more anti-social, selfish, and inconsiderate than hauling out a greasy, smelly, and/ or liquidy substance next to fellow passengers in an enclosed space and subjecting them to the fear of being soiled or the nausea of smelling whatever it is you're eating. And before you smart alecks call smacking "anti-social", the point is that the act of eating is in itself such an anti-social act that it warrants a response in kind.

BTW, for those of you ranting that it's "always" been this way, WRONG. I'm a native New Yorker and this whole "eating on the train" thing is a very recent phenomenon. Not even back in the urine-soaked days of the 80s would you see this kind of crap on a train. At most you'd maybe see someone guzzling a soda... you'd never in a million years see some slob hauling out an entire container of stuff, spreading his legs, and chowing down like he was in the middle of his bedroom in his hole-ridden underwear, grunting like the pig he is.

Never happened. In fact, New Yorkers were so skittish about this stuff I distinctly remember an incident back in the late '80s when, as a high schooler on the 1 Train, I took out a Milky Way (a friggin Milky Way!!) which was enough to cause the guy next to me to literally jolt away from me in disgust. Of course nowadays you can haul out a bucket of KFC and no one would blink an eye.

With that being said, I agree with people who are angered by these "exposed" blogs. The people who run them are filthy cowards. If one of them one day gets beaten down in the act of "capturing" someone for their blogs, I wouldn't shed a tear. Hell, I'd shake the hand of the man that did it.

Okay, tough guy, next time you see someone inhaling a container of chicken and rice on your subway commute you go right up to them and smack them in the face, telling them what a pig you think they are. I look forward to the gothamist entry "Subway complainer blinded with plastic fork"

Okay, tough guy, next time you see someone inhaling a container of chicken and rice on your subway commute you go right up to them and smack them in the face, telling them what a pig you think they are. I look forward to the gothamist entry "Subway complainer blinded with plastic fork"

Yes, eating is a very anti-social act. That's why people for thousands of years have been gathering together for meals.

Yes, eating is a very anti-social act.

Isn't it sad how people will literally dial down their reading comprehension to kindergarten level in order to debate a point?

Shit man, you must go into convulsions at a Knicks or Yankees game.

Shit man, you must go into convulsions at a Knicks or Yankees game.

Really? You don't see the difference between eating at a sporting event-- where it's completely socially acceptable-- and eating in a subway car?

This is stupid. I don't even really eat on the subway and I think it's ridiculous that people are complaining this much. And, okay - so it's rude and disgusting for people to eat on a train, but it's not rude and disgusting for people to take pictures of other people eating, label them pigs, and post it all over the Internet? Come on. There has to be something better to do or complain about.

And seriously - I'm sorry guys, but people have pretty much always been gross. I don't understand why it took the invention of blogs and camera phones for you to understand this. AND you live in a city, where you're just more likely to be exposed to the various habits of city inhabitants. Move to the forest if you can't handle it.

I wish more people would eat on the trains, maybe it'll mask the smells from some of the passengers. If the MTA didn't want you to eat on the train, they wouldn't lease out space to take-out eateries.

Photo skillz need work.

Can you eat & not be disgusting? FINE THEN.

If you litter, I will yell at you.

If you see someone litter...yell at them.

P.S. - Since when did Joe Flacco take the 6 train?

(lower right hand photo)

Oh, it's so gross to eat food in public, but it's perfectly fine for you to take a picture of it for the world to see some fat person stuff their mouth?

Great logic -- all these blogs are for whiners or closet self-hating hipsters. Haven't you never seen someone eat before? On a Subway? Where are you from?

Oh wait... don't answer that.

Oh give it a rest. If someone is scarfing a sandwich on the train, what's the big deal?

Just a few minutes after reading this entry (and putting my 2 cents in via a comment), I got on an R train at 57th St. southbound. I sat across from a reasonably well-dressed woman who pulled a box of brown rice sushi (sushi should NOT use brown rice) out of a Dean and Deluca shopping bag and proceeded to eat each piece, loudly licking the tamari off her fingers after each piece.

While I find the site referenced in this entry a bit over the top, she would definitely qualify as one of the most disgusting subway eaters of the day.

So eating on the subway is fine unless there's brown rice involved?

Blog must be by an anorexic who doesn't want to see food EVAR!

The name of the game for this and everything else is "discretion." If you're discreet, knock yourself out. Nibble on a sandwich, candy bar, hot dog, whatever. If it doesn't smell and people barely see you eating, that's fine. It's when it becomes an all-out display of gorging and lack of table manners that it becomes disgusting. Not that I would eat on the subway. If I'm on the street trying to get somewhere fast and starving, I'll take bites of a sandwich every few steps. Or in a park shielded from view by trees.

Eh, I eat on the subway sometimes... usually just an egg'n'cheese though. Other people eating on the subway doesn't really bother me as long as they aren't pigs about it.

Most uses of the word 'vile' on a single page: 8

Off-topic but why why why why WHY do people clip their nails on the subway, the airplane, their cubicle or anyplace other than in the privacy of their own home?! Nails on a chalkboard, that sound is.

yea people need to stop eating food and PISSING in the subways.. the other day I was exploring around waiting for the subway and actually saw a pile of human FECES at the end corner of the platform at the 116th st station.

How did you know it was human feces. Just wondering

Canad Street Station, just before Christmas, some woman bolted from the train, yanked down her sweatpants and pissed all over the platform.

Revealed at last: why Canal Street smells like piss.

Nope - half the people here are wrong.

If you eat on the subway, you're an a-hole. No wiggle room there.

Same goes for nail clipping and for listening to your headphones at levels the whole train can hear.

Committing any of the above makes you just a pure and sure a-hole. No debate, no alibi, no excuse. Just recognize what you are and move on.

people can complain about this

http://failblog.org/2010/01/11/public-decency-fail-2/

eating, headphones. have some perspective.

I once got on the N at Canal and noticed a strong, garlicky smell. Once I sat down, I realized, it wasn't *like* garlic... it *was* garlic. Sitting diagonally across from me was an older asian lady who was peeling cloves of garlic on the train.

She would pluck a clove of garlic out of one shopping bag, peel the paper off with a paring knife and then deposit the peeled clove into another bag. Over and over again. The whole car reeked like Ba-Tampte ("Means Tasty!") Pickles. O_o

I pussied out didn't ask why she was doing it, and why she could have remotely thought this was acceptable. I was tired and just changed cars at 14th. You won that round, Asian Garlic Lady.

I've witnessed bums pissing and shitting on subway platforms and in subway cars, I've seen people sneeze and wipe their snot on the seats, I've seen rotting chicken bones scattered on the floor of the cars and more suspicious looking and smelling "liquid" soaking anything you sit or stand on to never want to eat a fuckin' thing on or in the subway ever.

It's a lot different than Canada, isn't it?

Fuck no -- Canadians are vile buggers when it comes to transit. Saw some fat fuck eat Taco Bell with the entire meal (including dessert) spread out on the seat opposite.

Whoa, that certainly was not my experience living there. I think they're a helluva lot cleaner than New Yorkers, but then so is half the population of Nicaragua.

The TTC is a unique brand of hell -- and Torontonians aren't nearly as clean and "enviro" as they like to preach. At least the MTA gets me where I need to go most times. And yeah, stuffing your face on a subway car, slurping up food and smacking your lips like a porn star is fuckin vile. So glad I work from home.

Let's not forget the nail clippers, the most vile creature of all.

Mate of mine back in the old country had a philosophy: WWDD, he called it, meaning "What Would Dino Do?" Was a big Dean Martin fan and would ask, would Dino eat on a subway? Clip his nails in public? Take a trans-continental flight wearing flip-flops and shorts and a wife-beater? People used to carry themselves with a bit more self-respect, but I guess that's out of fashion.

'Course Dino was probably too soused to do any of that shite if he wanted to.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396581,00.html

I guess you didn't hear about the Canadian who hack off flesh of a passenger and sat eating it on a Canadian bus.

Hahaha. Yes, of course I heard about this, Felix. For the record, he was an immigrant from China. I spent most of my life in Canada and am pretty revolted by the general filthiness of the population here.

you guys who complain should go live in the suburbs. people use their extra time to eat and read etc.. in this crowded city for little time they have for themselves. learn to live with other people and tolerate them.

Yes, learn to live with other people. Like not opening a smelly onion-y falafel on a packed subway car with 200 OTHER people.

tolerance = freedom = maturity. You kids need to grow up.

So in other words, the asshole who is eating his sandwich next to me on the train like a slob is in the right? My tolerance for idiocy is pretty low.

More like Tolerance = Respect for others = Being aware of your surroundings = Not acting like an asshole.

They make this thing called Power Bars. It has calories, it fits in your pocket, and it won't make everyone around you want to throw up.

This is starting to become a sad joke. This is where social networking and blogs sites along with cameras on everything come to a disadvantage.

Does every single thing people do have to been looked at and then be posted online?

Eating on trains is nothing new. Just take a ride on the LIRR or Metro-North. Many people eat their lunch or sometimes dinner. I would imagine if your commute is fairy long why not use the time wisely?

hey as long as no one bothers me for brown bagging it i don't care what other people do

I once saw a woman make two cheese sandwiches on the train, one for herself, one for her husband. She not only ATE on the subway but PREPARED food which was just way too goddamn much for me to handle.

HA HA HA! Oh man.. So horrible.

This is starting to become a sad joke. There is where social networking and blogs sites along with cameras on everything come to an disadvantage.

Does every single thing people do have to been looked at and then be posted online?

Eating on trains is nothing new. Just take a ride on the LIRR or Metro-North. Many people eat their lunch or sometimes dinner. I would imagine if your commute is fairy long why not use the time wisely?

just my boogers

If what you're eating is self contained and won't foul up your surrounding area (including the smell) AND it's not in a crowded train - rush hour or otherwise - then go nuts.

If what you're eating involves a utensil or will drip or crumble or otherwise require more than one hand, it's disgusting.

@jaycjay - thank you! gross or not, it is not a misdemeanor to eat on the subway. here are the mta rules of conduct.

http://www.mta.info/nyct/rules/rules.htm#disorderly

Once saw a man sitting by the door go through some boned animal, side of smelly carbs and a can of soda over the course of several stops, then bag up his trash and back-hand toss the brown paper bag out the door right onto a platform at a station stop.

Was going to say something, but like others, didn't want a cap in my ass.

Actually, after looking at the pics on that site, more than half don't seem like big deals. And I've been known to drink my Dunkin coffee on my commute.

And the picture descriptions seem a bit too harsh, no?

"Actually, after looking at the pics on that site, more than half don't seem like big deals."

Exactly. The guy eating nuts from a Duane Reade bag, the one eating his "vile yogurt," really, what's wrong with that? This is stuff that wouldn't bother anyone who hasn't become just crazily obsessed with the whole idea.

DISGUSTING.

"it's a misdemeanor"

No it's not. You can't have an open container of liquid on the subway, so I suppose that could be applied to some food items. And of course littering is illegal. But there are no rules or laws that specifically ban eating in the subway system.

Absolutely right. Eating/drinking is perfectly legal on the MTA, as long as it's not booze. Which should be perfectly obvious, considering they freaking sell food and drinks on many platforms. Other places, like D.C., it can be a different story.

MTA Rules of Conduct

Next up: youtube videos of people clipping their nails on the subway, people applying make-up on the subway, people picking their noses on the subway, people with their feet on seats in the subway, people with their feet on poles in the subway.....and a collection of videos of kids who should be in school, but are spending their school days selling M&Ms and Reese's in the subway (NOT for their basketball team to buy uniforms, but to make an honest buck). Finally, subway preachers caught on video.

Have I missed any?

Ask Jen Carlson. She perfected this formula.

I think half of your list already exist and have book deals in the works.

that's quite a cross section of riders you got there.

anyway, that's why I always have an expired PowerBar in my bag. The give away free expired PowerBars at health fairs. you could take an entire case and they wouldn't care.

don't eat on the train.

don't eat while you walk down the street.

don't eat in an elevator.

don't eat in a public restroom.

eat at home, in a restaurant, or in a park. it's called "good manners" a mystical concept from long ago.

This comment is full of win, however the NYC tradition of walking down the street with a folded slice is one I will never give up- and I write about etiquette for a living.

Correction, 2 folded slices, stacked.

the thought of germs skeevs me out

get lives. worse problems exist.. that is all

People who think "that is all" is a cute way to end a comment annoy me almost as much as people who eat on the subway. It is the internet equivalent of eating on the subway. Let me guess, a couple years ago things you read used to make you throw up in your mouth a little bit over and over again?

To the parents who eat chicken wings on the subway with their kids every Tuesday around 8pm on the 2;

-Chicken wing grease does not belong on the poles or seats. It belongs on your TV remote and Rent-A-Center furniture at home.

-Chicken bones don't go on the floor. They go in the trash, which should be an all too familiar concept to you considering that is what you are.

Thank you.

I try not to, but sometimes my schedule doesn't leave me much of a choice. It's usually a few hot dogs from Gray's Papaya or Papaya King. I'm done after a few stops and if anyone notices at all, it's because the train smells better when I'm there.

Also, all my garbage is put in its proper place when I'm done. People who spit out seeds or leave their litter around ought to be sent to live in Mauritania.

Ummm...@politenewyorker - who gave you the sense of entitlement to think that after "a few hot dogs from Gray's Papaya or Papaya King. . . the train smells better when I'm there?" To many people, the smell of a hotdog is truly revolting, and if you put onions or ketchup or mustard on it then it might induce someone to be not-so-polite to you. Bottom line, except for maybe a candy bar or granola bar (as long as you pocket the wrapper), a truly "politenewyorker" would not eat on the subway. Period.

Do not eat on the subway, you fucking disgusting gits! It's gross as hell. And if it's got onions in it, _FUCK_ you!

i one saw an asshole drop a container full of chicken bones right under his seat, and a similar asshole just flip a tray of dirty rice onto the platform.

of course i didn't say shit, i didn't want a cap in my ass.

People like that will be assholes no matter where they are, not just on the subway. I've seen a stupid teen drop a bottle on the sidewalk when there was a garbage can not three feet away. Some people just think the world hasn't given them everything they deserve on a silver platter, so they don't owe the world anything.

I've seen that too and almost went into "Serial Mom" mode and kill the MF'er, nothing irks me more than assholes who litter. Years ago I saw someone eating crabs on the #2 train. I also have seen idiots dine on KFC while being chauffeured on a NYC bus then discard the remains under their seat. Total pigs that should be arrested IMO.

IMO it just depends on WHAT you're trying to eat in the subway. If it stinks, don't eat it on the subway, you're an asshole. However, if you're pulling a granola bar out of your pocket to munch on and you take your trash with you, I don't really see the problem.

Once in a while I'll suddenly get lightheaded and take a few bites of something like a granola bar, as long as the food in question is not fragrant.

Bananas and oranges might just be as offensive as Chinese food.

on the platform isn't quite as weird, i've been known to scarf down an egg sandwich on a weekend morning waiting.

on the train - weird. particularly if it's hot and/or fragrant. sometimes even a packed lunch of refrigerated leftovers can smell a little too much at 8am.

Where's the picture of the 250 lb. black woman hauling home a laundry bag-sized sack of McDonald's?

Awww... disappointed that most of the people captured on here weren't minorities?

Actually, most of them are. "Minority" includes more than just black people.

In half the wedding albums in the Bronx.

Hahaha Wedding Album! That would mean their boyfriend sticks around!

Brooklyn, NannyState. Brooklyn.