AIBU to tell colleague to just stick her tongue in?

[winobaglady]

A work, sit next to a lady who brings her daily food in in various tubs and containers. I am slightly jealous of how organised she is.
BUT she sits there scraping every last minuscule drop of whatever out of said containers. She's there with a wee spoon, scraping that small bit of yoghurt out. I swear she spends a good 5 mins doing this.
WIBU to tell her to use her tongue, finger or just fucking stop?
And.
Breathe.

Or next time grab it off her and lick it clean for her, she might sit somewhere else to eat in future.

😂

I couldn't cope with having to sit next to people eating like that, atleast if you're in a canteen or something there's lots of other noise and distractions

I thought you were going to say that she sits at her desk with her tongue hanging out and you are getting fed up watching it just hang outside her mouth....
Boy did I misread this thread entirely!

Oh god that would piss me off too.

My colleague spends THE WHOLE DAY snacking on little plastic bags of seeds and nuts and the crunchiest stuff she can lay her hands on. Then she talks with her mouth full. I have to get up leave very often

Sometimes she eats a raw tomato like an apple and that honestly makes me want to fetch

*retch!

I'm always intrigued by people who feel the need to scrape every last bit of yoghurt out of the pot.

I saw this ages and made me laugh.

Gah 'ages ago'

Ask her if she's seen this advert, while looking pointedly at her spoon/hands:

My colleague does the same but uses her big fat tongue. Trust me, you don't want that

That reminds me of a woman I used to work with in an office who brought in yoghurts every day but never ate them using a spoon. She would just use her tongue. All the men around us seemed to enjoy it which I think just encouraged her.

My colleague does this. She also eats supermarket sushi with a knife and fork. She puts it on a plate and cuts it all up them spends ages chasing the odd grain of rice around the plate with the knife and fork...scratch...scratch...scratch

At my old workplace, HR had to get involved when someone was cleaning their teeth at their desk. So it could be worse.

She's clearly on a calorie-controlled diet and wants to make sure she doesn't deny herself a single one from the quota.

I'd say to her, with a tinkly laugh each time "Well, I'm not sure you got every bit of the yogurt there!"

EVERY TIME. Until she stops, or you are forced to scoop an eye out. WITH A SPOON.

Oh God. I eat sushi with a knife and fork DeepfriedPizza

They make the pieces too big to be just one mouthful (in my defence). If I put a whole piece in in one go, I'd be spraying rice everywhere!

I have experienced this. Just say at the end, er i think you missed a bit

You may want to be a but passive aggressive about it... ie if your that hungry I can buy you another one'

One of the worst sounds in the world. YANBU

I have found my people! Open plan office and the daily chorus of the yoghurt pots! Drives me insane! I have never understood the obsession with getting every last drop out of a yoghurt pot! It's just yoghurt - it's not the secret to eternal life!

I'd say to her, with a tinkly laugh each time

A tinkly laugh is never the answer

I don't know if you're being UR or not. But I am one of those people who will sit and scrape out every morsel in the yoghurt pot. I think I'd be delighted if they came with the type of spoon that had one side a sort of spatula shape. I'd use it with gusto and we can end the hated scraping noises for all! Quicken the job for me too. Wouldn't solve me in getting every crumb out my crisp packet either which I imagine equally infuriates the people i eat lunch with.

The reason I do it is because I'm on a diet. I know an ideal diet is one where you aren't precious over your food - but I've gone from being clinical obese to just overweight. I feel like my internal stomach is forever stretched out and that I shall never be able to view normal daily food intakes as enough. So being lazy in finishing off my yoghurt pot just means lost food for me. And I don't want to lose even a crumb! I've counted every calorie and I want to eat every one!

I think this is common with people who generally have a bad relationship with food. Another lady who did similar explained she was a fitness model before with her boyfriend as her trainer. He was abusive and basically forced her to live on very little food so keep her fat percentages down. She has long since finished with him thank god - but her fear/ intolerance of hunger remains and now her kitchen is always majorly overstocked and she ALWAYS carries food on her persons just in case she ever feels the slightly bit hungry. She's not a fat woman at all (still models! But no longer a fitness model), so people would assume she had a good relationship with food. But her habits say otherwise.

So I suspect the lady you know who does, probably like many of us who do that, had the misfortune of experiencing something in her life that has caused her to have a poorer relationship with food than you do. Maybe she was raised in a poor household where food was a precious commodity and so 'wasting' yoghurt by throwing it away without emptying it throughly is unthinkable for her. Maybe she experienced an episode of abuse which had led her to turn to food as an emotional comfort, became clinical obese, lost a lot of the weight- but now just has a weird relationship with food ;). We all have our reasons. You could always ask her why she does that - even if she doesn't give you an interesting answer at least it will highlight to her you've noticed and maybe she will be more considerate about it. I do try and tone it down in the office lol! Keep it for when I'm actually at lunch in the cafeteria.