Outrageous salad bar behaviour.

[AndyWarholsOrange]

There is a really good salad bar at my work canteen. I went there today and there was a nice looking Greek salad type thing consisting of feta cheese, cucumber chunks, tomatoes and green and black olives.
The woman in front of me stood there for literally ten minutes and meticulously removed all the feta cheese and olives leaving just tomatoes and cucumber chunks into her pot and walked over to the till.
Surely this isn't OK?

That is bad, you can't mess with the Greek salad ratio.

Your canteen makes me feel sad.

But if I'd been behind her in the line I would have detonated. Who picks the bits off a salad and leaves the filler. Wanker!

I'd have gone for feta and tomatoes. If I fished out some cucumber I wouldn't have put it back but wouldn't have eaten it.

But there's no way on God's green earth that I would have taken olives.

I love MN!

Of course OP was unreasonable as she didn't TELL the woman not to pick out all the good bits.

People should fucking well know how to behave and not have to be TOLD something that is common sense and basic human courtesy

and no I have never been subject to outrageous salad bar behaviour

I would have fished out the black olives and the cucumber.

The tomatoes, green olives and feta can go fuck themselves.

I pick the lovely green apple out of the salad from morrisons salad bar and leave the raisins... Why on earth would they put raisins in a salad???

That's totally unacceptable. I completely agree with you OP.

Don't go to salad bars anymore. Used to love them but went to one once with my friend and the women in front of us sneezed very loudly and dramatically all over the salad. It was fucking disgusting, a huge spray everywhere. The worst thing was, the bitch laughed after she had done it.

Put me off for life :(

I do this at Chinese buffets - I fish out all the prawns
That's vile cookiesallforme - reminds me of the time someone burped on their birthday cake while blowing out the candles yak!

I would have fished out the black olives and the cucumber. The tomatoes, green olives and feta can go fuck themselves.

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Yeah, but it was her birthday cake. Maybe she didn't want you to have any prawnballs

Good point - I'm sure a few people declined that day!

limitedperiodonly

If there's a waldorf salad, I'm going to stand there for half an hour picking out every single walnut and see if anyone says anything. I am on a mission.

YABVU to suggest taking the aubergine out of a salad. Aubergine is beyond minging, leave it well alone.

Aubergines, walnuts and feta are totally minging. I couldn't eat them if I was starving. Seriously, I'd have to try very hard to think of things which are nastier. Corned beef comes close though

One of the salads at work today was avocado, kale and...strawberries... I picked out the avocado...Either way it was a slightly better offering than last week's brussel sprouts and pomegranate!

At least now I understand the comment about greek salad on the thread about the friend not paying back the £20.

YANBU.

Christ I have stuck my plastic fork in the back of her head! I get irrationally ragey over things like this.

I probably would have stood behind her fantasising about shoving the remaining cherry tomatoes in her mouth, but would have been too chicken to say anything and been cross at myself for ages afterwards. It's so rude!

DP's parents go on a lots of cruises, and as everyone knows "cruise = buffet". His mum has "had words" with other guests in the past about cherry picking seafood from paella before. Sometimes she and I don't see eye to eye, but when I heard that I was like, "Liz, I salute you".

Love the thread title, no idea why! That's all.

Calderglen Country Park

If there is a Waldorf Salad I wil spend 10 mins picking out all the waldorfs ! Burp ! Belch!

Lol hilarious thread title, I think it's outrageous that she did this! I love Greek salad, all of it it you can't start separating it! YANBU

Maybe it's a protest about the EU bailout terms and conditions.

But YANBU

Not Greek salad but I have to admit that, when I'm bed and breakfasting, I'll spoon fruit from the fresh fruit mix bowl but I'll leave chunks of pineapple in the bowl because I don't like it. the next person will have more pineapple than banana / blueberries / raspberries...