Quiche Guardian and the Non Pork Eater

[MidniteScribbler]

We had a staff day at work and lunch was provided. The meal was a pork roast and salad. There were also quiches provided for vegetarians which was being guarded by another staff member and only served to those who were actually vegetarians and any one who wasn't a vegetarian was refused access. One staff member said that she doesn't eat pork, so wanted a piece of the quiche. Quiche Guardian (QG) said that she can eat pork but chooses not to, so she wasn't allowed to access the vegetarian meal. Standoff ensued. QG won and non pork eater ate just salad. There were three full quiches left at the end of the meal which QG packed away and took home with her.

Should non pork eater been allowed to access the vegetarian option?

(I was neither party in this debate, quite happy to gorge myself on pork roast and crackling.)

Here you usually get deli-style sandwiches, typically turkey and then ham or roast beef, and a vegetarian choice.

OP - So QG was the only person who got to eat both pork and quiche at lunch? Then she helped herself to all 3 leftover quiches to take home. She just likes free food and didn't want to lose any to an undeclared vegetarian/non pork eater. Put her in charge of something she can't eat next time!

So QG got two lunches and left overs and some poor soul got nothing but salad?

And everybody else allowed that to happen?

I’m ashamed of the lot of you!

I (and most of the other staff) were not actually in the kitchen when it happened. The non pork eater told us after we all returned from the lunchbreak, and has made a complaint, and QG is being spoken to tomorrow about it.

As a vegetarian I would have been mortified to discover the non-pork eater had been denied a share of the quiche, whatever their reason for not eating pork.

And if I were catering, I would always assume that the vegetarian option would also be chosen by observant Jews and Muslims.

Ah, that’s not so bad then Midnite I’m glad a complaint was made.

So QG got two lunches and left overs and some poor soul got nothing but salad?

And everybody else allowed that to happen?

I’m ashamed of the lot of you!

Quite. And I can’t get my head around the AIBU either. Are you seriously expecting anyone to say QG was anything but unreasonable? Really?

Who gave Qg The right to guard? Whyy didn't managem tell qg off? Why am I answering this at this ungodly hour?

Who is the QG? Just someone from the office or someone from a catering company? Either way I'd be making a formal complaint.

Sorry, just seen it was another staff member. I don't have kicked up a massive fuss at the time I think. Who paid for the buffet? She basically wanted to take the quiches home with her so refused to serve them

Excellent thread title!

QG sounds both ignorant & greedy. Choosing not to eat pork is a “choice” but choosing not to eat any meat at all isn’t?

Yet more proof that for some people in life, a little power is way too much!

I'm amazed that your work pays for your lunch

QG was wrong. But whoever organised the catering should have made better choices. Lots of people don't eat pork, and I would much rather have quiche and salad than roast pork and salad, as that is a dire combination.

There's always one isn't there. I think your Quiche Guardian's (excellent description BTW) twin sister works in our office.

I could go on all day about the times she has enforced nonsense rules that make no sense and are nothing to do with her job, with a side order of skimming off a freebie for herself. She spends far more time on unnecessary tasks that are not her job.

But it sounds like the caterers did something right for once. Plenty of non vegetarians will eat meat sometimes but not every time so it's good that they provided enough quiche so it didn't have to be only offered to the vegetarians.

Another vote for QG being unreasonable. People shouldn’t have to eat food they don’t like if there’s plenty of a different option available.

It's pretty stupid treating quiche like some rare, esoteric food that only the rare few are allowed.

Roast pork with salad sounds dry and chewy. I'd have wanted to risk the wrath of my guts for the quiche.

I'd have waited till everyone else had been served/served themselves and then said 'everyone's had some food now and there's plenty of quiche left so Stand Aside, Quiche Guardian'. I'm pretty determined about getting access to food though. Do report back on what is said to her!

I bet QG is from the same mould as batshit fridge woman. There's one in every office.

Ours is the Keeper of the Office Temperature. As in, the aircon unit is in a locked cupboard and only she has the key. Therefore the office temp is set to what she wants - which is tropical, because she's one of these people who is always swathed in cardigans and complains of being cold. Meanwhile everyone else is sitting in short sleeve shirts, with desk fans and sweating to death. I consider myself lucky that I work remotely and don't have to go into the office every day.

If there wasn’t enough food to go around, then the correct thing to do was give a choice of Either pork or quiche. That way anyone can choose what they wanted to eat whether they were vegetarian or just didn’t fancy a meaty lunch that day.
What is it to her what someone wants to eat?
She sounds controlling and greedy.

made a complaint, and QG is being spoken to tomorrow about it
Good, that is what is needed.

I was refused vegetarian sausages in our school canteen recently as she knew I'd eaten chicken the week before. I am not vegetarian. I do not eat meat sausages as i just don't like them.

QG was unreasonable. We have QG at work but it stands for quiche gate after another hilarious canteen incident! Made me chuckle to see it on here!

What is it with all the veggie and vegan threads on here lately?!
This is the third bun fight over it this week!
Why did the quiche guardian think vegetarians don't eat pork - because it's illegal for them?

Journos our quiche guardian/batshit fridge monitor/office stationery and temperature monitor is menopausal - - and has been for the last fifteen years-- so is plagued by hot flushes.

Cue air con on nipple hardening max and a barrage of fans that blow away all the papers not nailed down. I took to wearing a coat and gloves in the office.

Who appointed Quiche Guardian? And what genius picked pork as the main meat instantly excluding all those who don't eat pork for religious reasons.

There would have been a reasonable category of non-vegetarians who couldn't eat the pork.

I'm glad Quiche Guardian is being spoken to, especially as she then nicked all the quiche.

Please tell us what happens after she is "spoken to"!!!

She does indeed sound like a greedy pig

I was veggie for over 20 years and the amount of policing others do over what you eat is ridiculous. People feel they need to guard food for vegetarians and if you so much as hint you might eat meat they are so shocked despite the fact they eat meat all the time. Glad I don't have to deal with that anymore even though j would usually prefer the vegetarian option.