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Vicky Jessop

OPINION - Ban this unsanitary hobby: why eating on the Tube must end now

Have you seen the video doing the rounds online? I’ll paint a quick picture: there’s a tube train. It’s in motion. And on a seat – surrounded by other passengers! – a woman is balancing a plate of what looks like rice on her lap.

She’s eating it. With her fingers. At this point, when I first watched, my fingers started twitching with the urge to throw my phone at a wall. Or with the urge to scrub them, hard.

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