Cooking smoked mackerel fish in office kitchen

[HipHopOpotomus]

Last night DP came home and we were chatting about our days.

He said there was a bit of an incident at work. Oh yes? I ask. "Yes, I cooked mackerel for lunch ............." he starts.

"YABU" I declare interrupting him. "I need no further info, you cooked the stinkiest fish in an enclosed space so the entire office stunk of fish. It is without question unreasonable behaviour. Many people will find that very upsetting. Best to eat the smoked mackerel cold or not at all."

He looked at me like I was an evil genius who had not only read his mind but that of an entire West End office floor!!!

WIBU?

YANBU
We have been suffering the world's smelliest soup every weekday since last October. Not just at lunchtime, but sipped from a flask at intervals through the day. The protagonist cannot understand why the windows are always open.

(But to be fair, it is being consumed for health/diet reasons and has worked.)

Don't want to make any judgement on 'reasonable' but when I was pregnant, and with the most horrendus morning sickness, one chap in my office kept on eating tuna and the smell drove me to the nearest toilet.

I never said anything, but the sound of me vomiting in the toilet probably sent the message to him and he did stop eating tuna when I was in!

:o

We have a chap who heats his sardines in the microwave at work thus stinking out the offfice and rendering the microwave unusable,

It smells worse than cat food.

YANBU.

Oh, and DH cooks mackerel at home sometimes. It stinks.

Chippy you are clearly a very patient and understanding person

Had someone who did this at an office I worked at once, cooking it in the microwave. It stank and the microwave REEKED all the time because of it. We had to clean it and air it out. It really put me off heating anything in there because all I could think was that the stinky smell might infect my food (unlikely, I know).

Bleughhh.

I really felt like hanging out on MN, and AIBU has really sharpened some of my social analytical skills.

DP only had to mention the fish and I knew exactly all the issues and how the day panned out. He thinks I have strange powers now.

Then again we also had a director who would eat very garlicky curries at his desk.

DP won't be doing it again.

FISH is clearly redundant in the title ............

Smoked mackerel should only be used, cold, in a salad. I can't think of anything worse than heating it up. Do you think he's got the message?

YANBU

Glad he's having "proper" food and getting his oils etc but YANBU!!!

We had a lady on a diet in our office years back when I worked (!) and she had these packs of steamfresh microwave veggies from M&S - perfectly healthy, great, etc, but feck they stank of old socks cooking. Something about microwaved broccoli and cabbage is rank smelling, even though its tasty enough. Smelt like hangover farts and old bins. And she didn't lose any weight. Soon stopped thankfully!

Yes his boss put a WANTED poster up on his office door :)

Oh he has got the message alright - I think initially he was a little humpy about it (people went on & on all day), but not after our chat

Tatty I gave him the heads up re microwaving broccoli too

I'm not that understanding - I work part-time

My old colleague used to go Paris for meetings and come back same day with various stinky cheese that the wife/mistress etc wouldn't let him have at home. Put them in the milk fridge, v unpopular.

Ever tried Stinking Bishop? (its a cheese, English one) that stinks big time. Had some recently, stunk fridge/house etc out for ages. Put the rind in the nappy bin, DH nearly died when he opened it.

we had a major broccoli microwaving dieter in our office too - the smell, even up a floor and through 4 fire doors, was unforgettable.

Colleague got very farty, but not slimmer.

Why on earth would you cook smoked mackerel? It would be vile!

I used to work in a small office. If we had a soup that the boss deemed smelly (ie tomato) he would act all huffy and open windows/spray air freshener. This is the same boss who regularly cooked and ate fish heads in the office

Any mackerel eaters care to own up? It's rank and shows lack of consideration for co-workers.

I am especially grumpy about bad smells today having just returned from the dentist who'd clearly been eating cheese and onion crisps.

It is lovely grilled (of course I will only eat it in other peoples houses - very sensitive sense of smell)

Scrambled that is really weird - offended by tomato soup, but cooked FISH HEADS in the office

Tatty DH once threw out some of my well ripened cheese. He thought it had gone off and was horrified when I told him it was supposed to smell like that.

OP - YANBU - your DH is lucky to get away with a poster on the door.