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Food & Drink in lectures

I know chewing gum or mints would be fine, but what about larger stuff like a small bottle of Coke or a bag of crisps? At college, we could eat whatever we wanted during lessons, apart from when we were in the Labs.

Reply 1

Purple

18

Cant you go an hour or so without eating?

Reply 2

mc_hamster

1

I would personally find it quite annoying if someone was sitting beside me eating crisps. lectures are only about one hour long normally so I'm sure you'd cope.
I used to take some water in but that's as far as it went.

Reply 3

Thoughtcriminal31

kirstinx

Cant you go an hour or so without eating?

My thoughts exactly!

Though for me it's pretty much essential to be able to sip from a water bottle now and then.. all year really due to heating = dry throat, air conditioning = dry throat heat = dry throat, running to lecture because late = dry throat.

Reply 4

Renal

17

One bottle of water.
Two alka seltzer.
One bacon sarnie.

Reply 5

Paeony

11

It's fine to take a drink into a lecture, I've often sat there with a coffee lol. However, it'd be a bit rude to eat something, and I really wouldn't order in a pizza :smile:

Reply 6

Sianne

I never really took food or drink into sixth-form, so I doubt I will at University. I remember a girl spilling a drink and it disrupted the lesson - I'd hate to do that.

Reply 7

bunthulhu

14

Water is fine but it's not a cinema so don't be rude. Plus it is incredibly annoying for the people around you if you are eating. The lecture is probably less than an hour, just eat before, it's not hard :smile:

Reply 8

Wise One

11

I always ended up with a bag of jelly babies or a big bag of chocolate buttons in my 9am lectures. The sugar content was the only thing to keep me awake! Although in my two hour lectures, the sugar crash always came before the end, leaving me unconscious (sometimes literally).

And for the 5pm-7pm films in the first year, quite a few people used to bring a pint of cider from the campus bar. Pretty good plan, to be honest, even when you're watching chickens being slaughtered for their entrails.

Reply 9

brown

4

I think it's a matter of courtesy to the lecturer and the people around you not to eat/drink anything in lectures. I know I wouldn't want to be sat next to someone eating a packet of crisps or guzzling down a can of pop.

Reply 10

apotoftea

19

I have been known to sit in seminars with a box of jaffa cakes before - it's a running joke between me and a certain lecturer - it's when I'm having a bad day. That's a one off with someone who's so relaxed anyway, wouldn't have done it in anyone else's seminars.

Drinks are fine - water, coffee (which you need for 9am lectures), anything really.

Food wise, has to be small and unnoticeable so polos, chocolate etc etc. A bag of mini eggs didn't go down too well in my second year - remember someone trying to open them and sending the entire contents into orbit

Reply 11

Tzara

12

My mate took pringles into lectures...which I wouldn't mind, if it weren't for the crunch every 10 seconds, which I can't help but concentrate on it instead of the lecturer!

Reply 12

Peter North

Ill end up taking water in, can cope without food for an hour though

Reply 13

Anth

2

Most of the class used to take in their breakfasts for the first lecture of the day. My maths module lecturer just laughed when he walked in and saw three of us sat there with bacon sarnies and coffee. So long as the food was finished by the start of the lecture everyone was quite happy :smile:

For other times though, a drink (bottle of water so no "fssssssssssssst" when opening fizzy drinks) or a coffee were ok no matter the lecture (lab work was the exception). A tip with drinks would be to avoid taking hot drinks into lecture theatres with very little desk space or else put it on the floor. Not good to spill tea on someone!

Sweets tended to be ok too, on the proviso we offered the lecturer one. If we did, we were allowed them. If not, they weren't allowed until we did :biggrin:

Reply 14

randomgirl

14

A drink is fine. Food isn't really, unless its sweets or something small. Don't be munching a whole sandwich or something!

Reply 15

UniOfLife

12

Food and drink is technically banned in my uni, but in practice very few of the lecturers care what you do. There's always one or two who do but you'll find that out very quickly.

As other people have said - show respect for your neighbours.

Reply 16

sheryl06

1

We are allowed to take drinks into our lectures but the majority of lecturers don't like us eating in them. However, as people have said they are only usually an hour or so and the ones that are over an hour have a break in the middle so we are able to eat then.

Reply 17

HistoryStudent

13

I used to take in some hot chocolate or chocolate milk, and the occasional Turkish Delight.

Reply 18

kinkajou

15

i think you'll find yourself getting some very evil glares if you sit there opening fizzy drinks and crackling crisp packets.

if you seriously cannot last then take a still bottle of drink and food that wont rustle.

there's nothing more irritating than constant rustling when you're trying to concentrate. unless your lecture runs right over lunch hour then it's rather rude to sit drinking and eating.

Reply 19

Phoenix Wright

8

Having had 6 hours of straight class without breaks, I often ate in lecture. Usually it was a burger and fries with a can of coke. The professor didn't care and no one told me to stop eating. Mind you, these were 200+ student lectures, so there is a sort of movie feeling to them sometimes. =p

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