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 don't have a lot of sympathy for this. If you're that precious about the sound of other people eating in a shared space like a staffroom then wear earplugs or listen to music on headphones while you eat, don't try to dictate what everyone else can and can't eat.

Curry pot noodle.
Chicken super noodles.

@Windintrees

If you must eat one you should do it in your own house. They absolutely stink!

when i was younger i hate beef pot noodle, because they were vegetarian.

@C8H10N4O2 , non-crunchy mahoosive MN salad then.
@Windintrees , bombay bad boy

Yummy though.

My last meal would be a pot noodle sandwich.

All pot noodles are vegetarian.

In fact the vast majority of them are in fact - trigger warning ahead — vegan 😮.

What's a pot noodle? I don't believe I've seen those in the organic farm shop I buy everything from.

Slurpyness and food smells in the lunch room - what a shock.

I remember at an old job a coworker once got out nail clippers and started cutting his nails with the trimmings flying round his table and the floor, now that was a bit grim!🤣

I'd hope you weren't slurping it. That's gross and unnecessary, but yes people do like to complain. I once had a man try to tell me my Crisps were too crunchy.

My ds loves a Thai mug shot.

The SMELL 🤢. The clinketty clink of someone eating noodles.

Stinky food really makes me barf at lunchtime

You're free to police OP's food but how dare someone else police you?

I don’t think it’s appropriate to eat a pot noodle on the office. They stink and they ARE slurpy. Very antisocial

This you @Psyberbaby ???

Lol no simply pointing out there are ways to eat noodles that don't involve slurping loud enough for the office to hear.
I'm not sure how you eat large crisps without crunching but if you want to give it a try I'll happily watch you try to python swallow them down 🤷🏼‍♀️

That's so funny because I went through a phase of having one every day for a month and I swear everyone commented on how amazing they smelled and how they were buying them. And they did!!

But then I sickened myself of them

Within reason, no one should be policing what anyone eats. A pot noodle is a perfectly reasonable lunch time choice.

It also strikes me that your company could get themselves into a complicated/culturally insensitive situation by doing this - curry can be considered smelly, ramen is meant to be slurped.

Just seems like if you start pulling the thread of foods people are intolerant about it could get quite nasty

I don't care how you ear your crisps. Go wild. Just don't be a massive hypocrite.

Absolutely!
Pot noodles are messy things to eat- ooh that monosodium glutamate smells so lovely- they remind me of the stables in winter when we used to eat them to try to stay warm-

I find the sound and sight of people eating on trains and coaches really irritating ( Don’t d coaches these days )

Some people stuff their faces the whole journey-
Smelly food is 🤢.

Egg is particularly antisocial.

Pot noodle was very hard to eat after my dog passed a thrashing roundworm.

🤢

( Dog is routinely wormed as well! )
She must have picked one up from the environment- she’s now wormed monthly rather than every three months)

I agree it's very antisocial. I never see anyone have a pot noddle at work due to the smell. You can make very nice jacket potatoes in microwave with butter and melted cheese...in case you like hot food at lunchtime x

A girl that I work with brings leftovers for her lunch and she eats it at her desk and it smells really bad. It smells like a mix of dog food and airplane food. But not once has it ever occurred to me to complain about it. Food has a smell… people can eat what they want, it’s tough

I think this is one of these posts which make me realise how different MN is from the real world. I have worked in numerous different places and a Pot Noodle was never seen as an inappropriate thing to eat. It was always a perfectly normal lunch option.

I honestly can't believe people say it's inappropriate for someone to eat a pot noddle during their lunch break at work 😂 I'd never bat an eyelid.

I once heard of someone (not a colleague, just someone I know) being surprised that people take in their 'proper meal' leftovers into work and reheat it as she thought the smell would be too much. It seemed so odd but I thought it's just her who could be annoyed by something like that - apparently not 😲😳

Couldn't have said it better 😂🌷