No Curry!

[blahblahblah2014]

AIBU to be a bit at the following message that has today appeared on the wall in the kitchen at work

"No smelly food to be heated in microwave - Take your curry back where it belongs.....................................at HOME"

??

[SuburbanRhonda]

That seems racist to me

[JamNan]

Try a Fish pie?

[BadgersRetreat]

blimey that's a bit much - to specify one type of food. and fish smells much more than curry

[ilovepowerhoop]

something eggy would be nice too

[evertonmint]

Not sure how that can be read as racist without further info - maybe one particular person heats up smelly curries!

It's certainly passive-aggressive though

[blahblahblah2014]

I think someone is trying to be funny rather than racist tbh but still......

[BoneyBackJefferson]

poached smoked Kippers it is then :)

[JonSnowKnowsNothing]

What a twatty message. I'd be tempted to take a shit in the microwave bring in my very strongest curry every day for a week.

Who wrote it?

[blahblahblah2014]

Big open plan office with about 40+ of us here, when someone cooks something such as curry it does linger all over the office with is either teasing when you are hungry or yuk when you are not....

[blahblahblah2014]

It just appeared, no author....

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

If it had said no smelly food and made no comment about curry, I'd have ignored it anyway but the curry comment seems a bit pointed. It probably was a joke though.

[blahblahblah2014]

To be fair, it is curry that seems to stink the place out rather than anything else, i think someone that sits on that side of the office (nearer the kitchen than myself) probably got fed up and wrote it.

Curry isn't a race lol

[WorraLiberty]

Racist??

It could just as easily have been said about fish

Or would that be fishist?

Either way, they a bloody coward whoever they are.

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

I disagree. I don't mind people cooking curry but kebabs really so stink the place out!

[SuburbanRhonda]

OP, I'm not aware I was suggesting curry is a race

If it were my workplace, I would take the notice down and put it in the bin. I wouldn't care who saw me doing it either.

[Bowlersarm]

I can understand it. Stale stinky food odour - yuk. Who wants to sit in an office like that? It should be extended to other smelly foods as well, though.

Actually, thinking about it, doesn't most food smell once it's been microwaved?

[SuburbanRhonda]

worra, true, it could have been said about any foodstuff.

But it wasn't, was it? It was said about curry.

And it didn't say "Don't heat it up in the microwave", it said, "Take it back where it belongs - at home".

[Bowlersarm]

Suburban I think you're reading too much into it.

The op has said that it is the curry which smells the place out.

Most people I know eat curry. It's not singling anyone group of people out.

[DameDeepRedBetty]

Errr.... Rhonda, I really do think you're over-thinking this a bit!

[brettgirl2]

anything can be seen as racist on mn.

The person who put the notice put IBU tho. ...

[SweetPeaPods]

I would be doing scrambled egg tomorrow, followed by something fishy next week, and maybe something really garlicky.

[MrsKoala]

The thing is all food smells bad if you don't like it. I have had many of these scenarios. I remember the chicken cup a soup from the machine actually made me gag, but i of course said nothing - my problem right? But then i had a cup of bovril and the chicken soup lady banged on and on about it till i said
'don't you think the smell of your cup a soup smells disgusting to me?'
'what do you mean? cup a soups are lovely..'
'Maybe to YOU they are!'
'You're weird EVERYONE love cup a soup'
'umm you really can't cope with a different opinion to your own can you?'

Another time someone used to bring in boiled fish and cabbage, now that was strong. But i do think you have to ban all foods or none. Because it's all perception. Some people wear perfume which gives me a headache. Where does it stop?

[brettgirl2]

when I was pregnant the smell of cup a soup made me heave!

[WorraLiberty]

SuburbanRhonda But how is that racist?

[WhoNickedMyName]

I would rip the sign up and leave it on top of the microwave.