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The gemara says one who eats on the street is compared to a dog (doimeh L’kelev). i.e. it is not a morally correct place to eat. Outside is a place where dogs eat. If one wants to eat something, you sit by a table make a brocho, and eat. Ideally, we can’t view eating as stam an act we enjoy and don’t put any thought into it. Rather, the way a yid supposed to eat, is he must think (as always, BEFORE doing ANY action)that he is eating this delicious food Hashem provided him, and hopes to be strengthened by it and be healthy, in order to continue to serve Him. Eating is an Avodah, it’s another way we can serve Hashem when done properly. A dog eats out of instict. He smells food, runs and eats. Indoors, outdoors, anywhere. For a yid eating in the street is not a place to eat (i.e. difficult place to concentrate on eating Lishmah)

This is what I was thinking. Does it sound right?