To think you don't eat CHILLI in the bloody office

[Holdingmynerve]

Especially an office with a tiny window and the whole foot print is probably 15ft by 10ft

If it was smoked mackeral or something I'd agree, chilli is pretty standard.

this wouldn’t bother me.

If it was a banana, however, I’d be going postal.

I'd rather the room be half-filled with chili than be subjected to microwaved fish or eggs.

No issue with chilli here, latest fad at my work is tinned oily fish

None issue

Chilli is fine to eat in the office. It's not particularly strong smelling.

IS chilli particularly offensive?! All food has some odour, surely. If your colleague were munching on pilchards, eggs and pickled onions you might have a point.

Don't really see an issue

What kind of chilli are you guys cooking that doesn't stink?!

Banana girl you can sit with me, because my two other colleagues both eat one on mid morning break and then chuck their banana skins in the only bin next to my desk

Meh, as long as it's not fish (or anything fishy/seafoody) I don't care much tbh.

Food with taste tends to have an odour. Or are we all supposed to restrict ourselves to bland crap during office hours?

I'd rather have nice chilli than a boring sandwich or salad in the office. I don't think it smells that bad at all.

Chilli is fine. It would probably just make me feel hungry.

YANBU - Chilli would smell too much. I don’t really want to be sitting in the office with that wafting up my nose...and the smell gets worse as it cools down. I have to admit to being a bit against eating warmed up food at a desk in an open office at least. There is always a smell.

It's not particularly pungent. I can't see your problem really. Are you one of these MN blood hounds who claim to be able to smell what people had for dinner the night before?

Not at all. But you could eat it in the canteen where food smells are supposed to live!

Yesterdays warmed up chilli, eaten over the course of an hour whilst working and on the phone.

Not ok guys

Unless it was sardine chilli. YABU.

No issue in our office either.

Food with taste tends to have an odour. Or are we all supposed to restrict ourselves to bland crap during office hours?

^This

Zero issue with this. Not a strong or unpleasant odor (and I don't like chilli).

Chilli would make me feel very ill as I'm allergic to tomatoes. It has to be consumed for me to actually be ill, but the smell would turn my stomach and I'd have to leave.

YANBU.

Never had a stinky chilli!

My coworkers often bring in homemade chilli/spag bol/casserole to reheat and it always smells tasty.

People eat fry ups at their desks in my office. It's an everyday thing.

I got told off for eating chilli in the office my colleague said it smelled like BO.

(It was just normal supermarket chilli)