To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other. This sounds tedious.

She's a new colleague, your childish personal comment was not the right remark for the situation. Good on her for not wasting energy pretending to laugh.

She was probably embarrassed for you. What an infantile joke to make.
As a rule, don’t make jokes about people’s food. You’ve now made her self conscious about the food she brings into work.
Grow up and act your age.

You may want to reflect on the fact 91 % of people think your joke was a bit shit / not nice

I think that's key really, for this type of thing. You've got to know the target well enough to know how it will land. And if you don't, don't risk it.

I wouldn't find it offensive but I would think you were crass and immature. I would expect most people to have grown out of primary-school playground bodily-function jokes by the time they are going out to work.

I don’t have an intrinsic problem with toilet humour: it has its place sometimes.

But its situational and you have to read the room. A fart joke between spouses or with someone you have worked with for 15 years is one thing. Ambushing someone who has just started working with you and making a snide comment about what they are eating is borderline bullying.

It’s bound to make the person feel uncomfortable and unsettled. You reinforce this with the subsequent comment about how no one else would fit in at your workplace. Its about subtly signaling to the person that you and your colleagues have a clique and that they are at the bottom of the hierarchy and need to kowtow to you and your chums and your banter. Its like public school.

If you had said this to me I would have concluded that you were a nob and using your place in this petty and inconsequential little fiefdom to intimidate newcomers.

I'm howling (not at the joke, though!) - are people really so precious??? 😂Nothing wrong with your comment, OP, carry on!!!

I'd wonder where I landed if a fully grown adult in a work setting made juvenile fart jokes

I'd be offended and start wondering if it was too early to start looking for another job

I'm very self conscious while eating in front of others so definitely wouldnt have had eggs but I find scatalogical humour so crass, puerile and idiotic that as well as embarrassed myself I'd have deemed the perpetrator as an immature halfwit. Id have also been quite upset that they aimed the 'joke" at me.

Making a joke about a new colleague's potential digestive issues/poo tract? Just a bit weird too really.

I’ll see you in the queue 🙄

Definitely not funny and commenting on someone else's food when you have no idea why they might eat a certain way is just unkind. Being aware of other people's needs and not being unkind is part of being a nicer human.

It's also possible she may have felt you were asking her to change what she likes to eat as you linked it to smell...all around a nasty comment

If it was man to woman its even more loaded

I thought it was a myth that eggs cause constipation because people confused what they do in baking with the effect on human bodies

Yeah, don't hold your breath waiting for that call from the Comedy Store.

I think a lot of people wouldn’t have got the joke as I don’t think eggs really make you fart, it’s def an old person joke.

As a PP has pointed out, It's only a joke if it is funny.

And this isnt funny to most grown ups. We left that kind of "humour" behind at primary school. I wouldn't be offended in the slightest. I prefer more grown up, subtle humour. I used to find Mock the Week hilarious.

Grown ups with childish "humour" like you and the OP are very much in the minority.

Eggs don’t make people fart unless they have some kind of sensitivity to them (i think?!), which she probably doesn’t as she eats them so often! it may have taken her a moment to wonder what you were talking about.

Thing is your new team member may also hate it.

Was going to say the same, they smell when you unpeel them don’t they. They are supposed to block you up “egg bound” not the opposite thing you’ve suggested.

But I admire your front in suggesting she’s had a sense of humour failure. It’s in the same vein as men who call women lesbians when they don’t respond to being chatted up.

This is the daft type of comment that would get made in my office. And there’d probably be a daft comment back in retaliation.
Childish, yes, but keeps us amused enough.

Cringe for you, poor girl her 1st week, and you try being funny and embaress her.
She'll know who to be avoiding going forward.

Maybe she really didn't know what you meant, because not everyone reacts to eggs that way?

Keep the fart jokes out of the workplace.

I'd have done a polite laugh (because I'm a people pleaser) and felt slightly despairing that I'd ended up in a job with people who enjoy Mrs Brown's Boys.

I would've probs laughed and said something like "sounds like a him problem".

Grow up.