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Subway Eaters Now Exposed!

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There are a lot of websites dedicated to snitching on fellow straphangers popping up lately. First there was Subway Douchery, then the N Train Gossip Twitter account that totally backfired on the author... and now we have Train Pigs.

This one is dedicated to calling out those eating in the subway system (and even on buses). They declare one should not nosh in such a confined space because it smells, it's messy and the site says it's a misdemeanor. Yet, there's still this phenomena of eating in the most non-appetizing atmosphere of underground New York, amongst sneezing passengers and rats running down tracks. Are you part of the problem?

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  • hmunster123

    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.

  • Kakapo

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

  • gawkthis

    "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.

  • LB

    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 .

  • newport27

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

  • hmunster123

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

  • rides on farts

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

  • ledbetter

    repeat offender? top-middle and bottom-right.

  • huffingpaint

    What a waste of time.

  • Swingline

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

  • Manitoba

    Only if you don't proceed to eat it.

  • Holsum Pan

    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.

  • Manitoba

    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.

  • luke*

    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.

  • hmunster123

    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.

  • tmz is evil

    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.

  • Malcolm Tucker

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

  • zincink

    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

  • DownandoutNYC

    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....

  • tmz is evil

    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.

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