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.

Melt

Beautifully put.
The little englanders on this site always make me chuckle. Smelly food you all say?
Carry on with your pot noodles OP.

I just have porn noodles in the toilet on my break tho

Porn noodles don't bother me though.

Now that would be worthy of an email!!

Gives a whole new meaning to caNOODLing.

This! The way my ex ate a yoghurt used to make me want to stab him.

Also very inconsiderate for others who are also probably on short lunch breaks and might need the microwave. I heat up soup for 3 mins, max, so everyone else can use the machine. (There are 5 of us, only one other ever uses it)

I would eat one every day from now on.

I've always found that people who make rules like this are bossy and controlling in other areas of life too. Who gets to demand not to have "slurpy" food. And who gets to decide what's smelly or not... Next week someone could say don't eat crunchy food it annoys them. Some people see it as extremely selfish to eat fish at work but that smell doesn't phase me at all however the smell of crisps makes me feel really grossed out and I can smell crisps a mile off. People should be able to eat whatever food they want.

Hahahaha!!!! Stupid autocorrect!!!! I shall forever call them porn noodles now!

When you have worked in an office with a colleague who would enthusiastically eat pilchards straight from the tin, holding them up in the air each time and licking his fingers after each one, with oil dripping onto the desk, that’s anti social. To cap it all, he would lob the tin in the office bin (without wrapping it up) so it would fester away in the heat the entire afternoon. Zero self awareness and vomit inducing behaviour!

There is a microwave - use it to heat up whatever. If they don’t want smells in the office then they need to banish the microwave.

Honestly, third world problems and all that. Sheesh get a bloody life, life is just too short!

I don’t eat pot noodles btw, but do warm items up in the microwave at work - that’s what it is there for.

Casual racism if your colleague isn't white English and I'm making (big) assumptions here he isn't as goat curry isn't generally available at the local takeout.

Love a pot noodle me..comfort food

Not sure what it has to do with fridges like. Nobody puts a half eaten pot noodle in the fridge.

He is white English actually @Roja7 . No racism implied whatsoever, he just eats weird (to me) food. I'm vegetarian and found it grim.

We make goat curry and are white English. Nice bit of grub that.

I have a colleague who eats a boiled egg for their mid-morning snack. A good, healthy choice but...whiffarama!!

This. It's handy to have in the car or staffroom cupboard in case you ever forget your sandwiches.

One of my favourite toppings for a baked potato is tuna mayo - according to some that's just as bad.

Foord, in particular hot food has a smell. It's a kitchen and a lunch room - perfectly acceptable to be eating food others might not like the smell of.

Even some sandwiches smell.

i know, i made an error,
i was a vegetarian but could still eat beef pot noodle and i liked it

I think some Pot noodles smell really good, like the Nonshim spicy Korean noodles.

others I’m not as big a fan of, but certainly don’t consider them messy or smelly. They don’t even go in the fridge!

Fucking right I would if people were slurping it.

All food smells and all kinds of noises are made when people are eating.

If you can't do that in a lunch room where are you suppose to do it?

Werent you on a while ago talking about having the same pot noodle for lunch every day?

You cook it at home. Then it is just heating it up.

I think Mumsnet needs to develop a list of food that is not offensive to eat in a work staff room.

It must not have any form of smell whatsoever.
You must be able to eat it silently, and with no obviously facial expressions to suggest you are chewing, sucking, slurping, etc.
It must also meet the the MN standards for being 'healthy', substantial, not too expensive but not really cheap either, oh and ensuring the portion sizes are of a MN size.

Any suggestions?