Colleague eating egg mayo sandwiches - to say something?

[DontGiveUp90]

As above really…my colleague is lovely but insists on eating the most foul smelling egg sandwiches for her lunch. It lingers all afternoon and makes me feel sick.

Would I be unreasonable to say something? We don’t have a break out area where she could eat them as only a small office.

After effects?

Get a grip with accepting egg sandwiches?

Or get a grip with telling said colleague (or anyone) to fuck off stop eating egg sandwiches?

Do you mean farting? Or something else?

Eggy farts are deadly. Like somethings died. ☠️

Yes!

I must be one of the lucky ones who doesn’t get egg flatulence .

So glad I work from home yuk! I would say you're allergic if it's that offensive

Ive Never Farted after an Egg. I thought they Binded things up. @DontGiveUp90

Seriously? You'd be throwing up when someone ate an egg mayo sandwich?

👍🏻🙋‍♀️ I was that child 🤣

This is why I go out to the car to eat my lunch. Otherwise I get stressed about eating anything smelly or noisy, and it has the added bonus that I don't gave to make polite small talk and spend the whole evening analysing every social interaction I have had with people.

This is genuinely the saddest thing I have ever read on Mumsnet. What is the value in living a life entirely defined and shaped by fear of other peoples opinions?

You’re not funny.

She isn’t. This is a fuss about a sandwich.

It's great some people are intolerant of other people being thoughtless, it stops the thoughtless cunts in this country completely degrading the quality of life for everyone else with their antagonistic behaviour and attitude. I only wish some of them would get a slap in the face every time they acted like a thoughtless dick, then we might not have such a epidemic of people blasting crap out on their mobile phones on public transport, to name but one action of a cunt. It is attitudes like yours trying to project objections to poor behaviour back onto the victims that are part of the widespread problems in the UK.

Is it ok to bring in left over takeaway and reheat it.

Of course it is. I still don't understand what's wrong with being able to smell food.

Most people take a big sniff and go 'ooh, something smells good' but half of MN treat food smells as if someone has squirted noxious gas in their face.

At least it isn't winter still. Open a window. Or waft a hand over your nose and go "whose farted in here! It stinks!

Hopefully they will be mortified, realise that egg mayo smells like farts, and stop being so grim. I don't usually like pulling passive aggressive stuff like this but I think it's worth a try.

Yeah but egg mayo and microwaved fish? There has to be a line drawn there! I don't mind curry, or even a Maccy Ds, but egg mayo would have me gagging. Tuna as well.

This.
It's crap that you hate the smell, but you can't tell her what she can and can't eat.
As pp says, get the window open instead.

Why not smear some Vicks vaporub under your nose, like pathologists do?

Perhaps you could wipe a bit of Vicks Menthol under your nostrils and give her evil looks @DontGiveUp90
Bring out solid air freshener while she is eating and put it away later.

Love an egg mayo sandwich. Just open a window.

Of course you can’t 👀

what about she comes back at you with regards to how you inconvenience her in any way at all? Building the team spirit eh?

Can the fish eaters also veto other foods, otherwise it seems very harsh? When I was still teaching my room had a mini-kitchen and I had to ask one of my department to take her smelly pot noodles back to her own classroom once she's used the kettle!