To think colleague has bitched about pot noodle

[Psyberbaby]

Last week a colleague said to me "I would never have thought of a pot noodle for lunch!" which I thought was a bit random.

This morning we have all received an email from comms about keeping fridge clean and "avoiding overly smelly and slurpy foods" in lunch room.

I notice that the new Pot Noodle ad had to remove the slurpiness after many complaints.

People in my office microwave herring and kippers. I wouldn't give a shit about a pot noodle!

It's a bit mad. I mean I don't love the things and wouldn't recommend them as a healthy meal, but I used to keep one in my desk for busy days when lunch didn't happen.

Complainers care lucky they don't have worse to moan about.

I was thinking of the advent too lol

It's a lunch room. We're all different. I take my leftovers and heat them in the microwave and I no longer give any f*kcs what other people think.

It's my food, I'm eating it, no one else is. Don't like it, suck it up.

As an ethnic minority, I grew up with constant taunts from other children about my different food / lunches etc - this seems to only happen in the U.K. as my kids attended international school abroad and didn't encounter the same issues until they returned to U.K. schools.

microwaving kippers and herring?

actual crimes against humanity.

Nothing smells as foul as a freshly opened John West tuna light lunch!

I don't see what pot noodles have to do with keeping the fridge clean.

It's in our handbook at work that microwaving fish will result in the immediate removal of the facility 🤣

I think I might change my username to AntisocialPotNoodle.

Quite right too! The smell of microwaved fish is worse than the smell of the fartiest farts.

How strange your colleague is. Pot noodles are literally designed to be a quick and easy hot lunch and are ideal for when you don't have full kitchen facilities, eg. at work!

I wish the comms team in my last job had sent emails to Mr Fish Lover Extraordinaire. His microwaved lunch stunk out the whole floor every day.

And bah humbug to the corporate food techs who thought a lunch pot of boiled egg and spinach was a good idea.

I once took left over kedgeree in for lunch. Realised the error of my ways about a minute into the microwaving....
Fish ✔
Egg ✔
Curry ✔
I'd crack on with the pot noodle!

i have taken boiled egg and mackeral salad to work, delicious,
tuna salad/egg salad, dhal, anything goes and i care not!

Not everyone can afford avocado, quails egg and smoked salmon on rye bread for lunch everyday.

It is possible to eat a pot noodle without slurping. I hate slurping & can manage it so why can't others?

Smelly and slurpy?

I love them, but they are quite slurpy. I prefer chicken super noodles.

Last nights leftovers are worse?

I think policing what people eat at lunchtime is rude and abhorrent.

What next? You can only have sandwiches from Marks & Spencer?!

Ridiculous.

It makes me want to slam THEIR head into the table!

I have never eaten a Pot Noodle but I am more grossed out from your language about people eating rather than people actually eating.

Rest assured your eating habits will make others feel similarly.

Pot Noodles barely have a smell.

I think heating up fish and eggs, is much more antisocial than eating a Pot Noodle.

Carry on eating your Pot Noodles! Not gonna lie, you’ve made me rather fancy one! 😂

Why couldn't you have a mahoosive salad like a normal Mner?