Would you ever eat, then go to baggage claim at airport?

No way! No matter how hungry I was I'd wait the extra few minutes to get my luggage first!

It doesn't sound so crazy to me. I don't check luggage, but many airports don't have restaurants outside of security, and if you've got hungry kids, have to get a rental car or other transportation, don't know the area so don't know where restaurants will be, had a long flight, and so on... it could easily be an hour until you get food if you don't get it after getting off the plane.

I wouldn't do a sit down meal, but I can totally imagine grabbing something to go in the airport before getting luggage.

Yes!
If I had hungry little kids and there was only decent food in the terminal,and if I thought it would be fast.

I could see grabbing something to go. But I wouldn’t sit down at a restaurant.

It would totally depend on the airport/length of flight and availability of food nearby etc, but definitely not out of the question. I hardly ever check bags, but my kids often do for their semester move in/move out. My son ALWAYS has a connection and if he was landing at our home airport after flying all day - it's a wasteland when you leave the airport, so I could totally see someone in that scenario getting something to eat first. Thieves suck.

I'm not sure it was even an option the last airport I flew in to. But it was on the late side so maybe places were closed and I didn't notice. However, I could have had a three course meal with waiter service in the time it took for my bag, just one bag, to appear.

In this situation I would have had two people, one adult, one child, go get takeaway food while the other two go directly to baggage reclaim. Both areas covered.

In a group where some could wait for the bags while the rest went to order, yes. On my own, no.

Not a chance. We take snacks on the plane and if needed, Delta has pretty good snack boxes for $10.

Never, not even with kids. I wouldn’t ever be that hungry because I always, ALWAYS bring an assortment of my own snacks with me. 1) I don’t want to wait and 2) I’m too cheap to pay airport prices for marginal food. I like being at the point where I can see the bags as they’re coming down so I’m prepared to grab them right away and don’t have to wait for them to come around the conveyor again.

I haven't checked a bag in 10 years, but it's easy enough to grab and go something to eat on your way out of the airport.

99% of the time I would say no, that luggage is first priority.  I guess there could be a scenario that it could happen.  First I wouldn't want to pay airport prices for a meal.  So my first stop for food would be on the way out of the airport.  If I had kids hungry I would surely have snacks to tie them over.  Who travels with kids and don't have snacks?? Usually while I love hanging around an airport, if I am landing I am heading out as fast as I can. 

Oddly, there is a large number of folk who have no idea you can take food onto an airplane. Your own food, not just food purchased inside the secure areas.

I have food allergy issues and now always pack my own meals and snacks. People I fly with are always surprised.

You have to follow the liquids rule, but other than that I have never had issues.

I can see stopping to grab to-go food if they knew they had a long ride with and uber or shuttle or something after the flight.  I would not do it, but can understand it.

I could see it. I wouldn't sit down though and risk it. We get up at 2 - 2:30 am to take a regional flight to an international airport and there is usually a tight-ish connection. So no grabbing food. Last time we had 2 connections, flew to Maui. Got in there at 6:30 pm home time. So I had hardly eaten on 24 hours. I'm gluten free and brought some things but I was still starving when we got there.