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.

Why not have sardines on toast instead?

You can make very nice jacket potatoes in microwave with butter and melted cheese...in case you like hot food at lunchtime

You can make jacket potatoes in a microwave but they don't taste great - certainly no where near as nice as an oven cooked one. Even one started in the microwave and finished in the oven, or one started in the oven and reheated in a microwave isn't anywhere near as nice as a properly oven cooked one.

Potatoes when heated also smell. They are not odourless.
And obviously a lot of cheeses smell, especially when melted.

And even when reheated can rake over the microwave for a chunk of time.

For a second, by “facility,” I thought you meant your whole building and I thought, well they’ll have to, won’t they? It’ll never stop smelling of manky fish. It’ll just get a shorter and shorter half-life but ALWAYS smell faintly of fish. Doesn’t matter what you try. Then it will smell of Zoflora and fish, or Febreze and fish, or a fucking Jo Malone candle and fish. There’s just no bloody hope. Burn the whole place down. And have a seafood BBQ in the flames.

The person I work with makes sardines on toast to eat at their desk half an hour before our official lunch. Pisses me off every time!

Eugh! I agree that if you are eating in an office you should be respectful of others and be clean over the desk space and if you are eating anywhere you should have good table manners! The worst is when you have to clean grease off the desk after someone's been eating there. 🤮

I think @Roja7 is so busy trying to be right on they appear slightly ignorant themselves

Thanks for the replies guys! Maybe bombay bad boy is too intense, I will try a lower key one. As for the slurping well I do my best but I mean its noodles in broth, so...

I thought comments about food smells were for when people ate at their desks? If you are in a separate room, everyone’s food is going to smell of something surely?

On reflection I think perhaps andouillette would be unsuitable

So according to this thread, lunch food cannot have a smell or make a noise when eaten?

That leaves dry bread then. Staff/lunch rooms are for eating in, if you don't like it, fuck off out and leave people be.

It depends how you eat it. A small amount of noodles and twirled around a spoon then into the mouth in 1 go, I think OK.

If like my old colleague you shovel a fork load in with noodles half hanging out of your mouth then suck them in, you need to eat in a room alone!

Pot noodles, or any other brand instant noodles are what we call a poor man lunch at work, the time of month where everyone’s waiting for payday and trying to stretch the pound 😅 the guys at work eat them quite often..

Massive salad?

I'd say in the staff room you say what you want.

If you were slurping smelly food at your desk that would be gross.

(I have misophonia and sensory issues around sound and smell but I always have thought a staff room is fair game. I s happily murder you anywhere else in the building!

I'm confused why there are so many offended people on this thread?? By smells and textures? Office lunch places/kitchens are a place for people to unwind, take a moment to enjoy their food, whatever it may be. Admittedly, eating at your desk can be umm... not so desirable, always nice to practise proper hygiene... but I think it says more about UK workplaces that people feel obliged to eat at their desk, rather than take a proper break!!

The happiest workplace I ever had was in a very multicultural office, with a lot of Punjabi, Hindi and Muslim employees, who often felt embarrassed about bringing delicious leftovers in from home because of the smell - but everyone made a point of making sure no one had to eat outside just because of the smells and it eventually evolved into a monthly Friday potluck where people brought various dishes, baking, etc for Friday lunchtime and after work :) I learnt the recipes for some beautiful dishes through that potluck

Why so angry about the pot noodle omg, everyone needs to eat

Just swap to a supermarket chicken jalfrezi and make sure it’s steaming hot in the staff room.

Actually don’t. As that’s antisocial too.

Sounds a normal work lunch to me.i don’t eat them but can’t imagine being bothered by it. People will find all sorts to be offended at. At my workplace people are forever heating up leftovers, always homemade and IMO smell but it’s a lunch room .. literally a room designed for everyone to eat in! I used to hate it when I was pregnant and still remember who used to microwave fish and curry! We don’t eat hot food at our desks so it’s fair enough.

A massive salad is way too crunchy. It would have to be some kind of a vegan tic tac you could eat completely unobtrusively.

At your desk I could understand but in a lunch room?

What is so strange about curry?

I'm now wondering if I have something wrong with my nose because 90% of the stuff folk have mentioned on this thread as "smelly" foods made me go eh?

and who on earth is "slurping" a pot noodle???

Apart from the woman on the advert (who makes me murderous) and clearly the OP (have a word with yourself @Psyberbaby) I don't think I've ever heard anyone "slurp" a pot noodle.......

Appearing right on? I'm speaking from experience having experienced the direct and indirect comments about my lunches at school and work 🙄

Think you need to get a nice, big egg sandwich at the ready for your next lunch!!

we all eat at our desks, apart from a tiny handful, - there just isnt the space
people mainly complain about the fish in the microwave though but not officially.
just told to wipe it down after use

If you were slurping it like the woman does in that ad, I'd have reported you to HR too

Someone needs to invent a highly nutrious but filling wafer that melts on the tongue, only one required per meal.
Flavours would need to include -
Week old chicken
Massive salad
One small square of really dark chocolate
Middle class aspirations
6 figure salary and
Niche hobby.