[Avodah] Is it permissible to eat while walking outside through a marketplace?

[Marty Bluke]

Why are we so sure that this Halacha even applies today? This seems to be a
societal thing, in the time of Chazal it was considered disrespectful to
eat outside. However, chazals eating habits were very different then ours.
We no longer eat reclining and we no longer follow many of the other
minhagei seuda of chazal. So if today it’s considered acceptable by society
to eat outside then chazals dictate should not apply. Truthfully, this
opens a different can of worms regarding berachos as well.  For example,
chazal state that a person should put on some kind of bent for davening.
This is the reason chasidim wear a gartel. And yet, the non Hasidic world
has abandoned this practice because our mode of dress has changed and this
is no longer considered a respectful form of dress.
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