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.

ill admit even the shop ones can be iffy

I think I'm going to have to do the same! Sorry to the OP for derailing 😂

holy trinity who trained them cooking wise ???

YABU. Eggs just smell of eggs. They are a perfectly normal food.

Then you'd get complaints from those who can't bear to hear people eat 'noisy' food. The crunching and chewing of the crackers would massively irritate them.

I'm honestly baffled as to how adversely some people react to being able to smell perfectly ordinary food. I'm sure it doesn't 'linger all afternoon' after it's been eaten.

i sometimes add salad cream with them

'For the love of God Sandra, are you nose-blind? Have you NO idea how your sandwiches smell!?!'

(I love egg mayo, but I wouldn't eat them in an office.)

I brought dt (darling teen) and airwick essential oil diffuser which is very good. A fan would help too

Also a neutradol block might help

I had a colleague who used to eat pilchards in tomato sauce out of the tin and then chuck the empty tin in the bin under our shared work area! I just had to tell him in the end as the stink made me heave. Suggested he rinse the tin out and put in the recycling and went on about how much the smell lingered. He got the hint

a senior guy in my office once nuked salmon then left the scene of the crime to stink the rest of the day. I hate fish/seafood and sit at reception basically alone next to the lunchroom where the crime occurred. It stank ALL DAY.

I put a hex on that man and a few days later he was fired. Not sure if my pentagram and evil chants played a part in it but I like to think so.

Burn in hell, Mike. 😈

Sounds grim though I love an egg sandwich myself!

An ex colleague of mine used to bring in bags of dried fish which she'd open with a flourish and eat them like a packet of Quavers. Seriously that was very grim and it really did stink!

I bloody love a home made egg mayo sandwich. I do tell DD she can’t have one in her packed lunch though because no one wants to sit with the kid with the egg sandwich and I don’t want her to be bullied for it! 😳

We often have egg mayo sandwiches at home. We then go out and come home a couple of hours later to find the eggy stink still lingering 😂

Does hummus really smell bad in the same way? I’ve never noticed. Love hummus too 🤤

Now I love onions but WHAT? Just onion, nothing else?

ooh yes please!

Yeah, just tell her it's disgusting and she can't bring them into the office any longer, then email her a list of pre approved of foods she can bring in which are acceptable to you.

Or, just be a fucking adult and let her eat her desired lunch. Up to you.

That would seriously give me the boak. 🤮 I detest eggs.

Just had a delicious homemade egg sarnie for lunch. I am at home though!

I don’t mind the smell at all but hate it when people heat various types of leftovers in the microwave at work 🤢

I once reheated a Salmon and sweet potato bake in the office microwave once. about 10 minutes later an email went around to the whole office; 'Can people please refrain from heating fish in the microwave, the kitchen also borders the reception area and guests don't want to be smelling stinky fish.' - not mentioning any names but she sat very close ot me too!
Oops!

In another office someone cooked a large oyster mushroom thing in the microwave and ate it like a slice of bread, we all said to her face, immediately it was putrid and she must never do it again! She was understandably a bit peeved, as she was trying to be really healthy, but understood. It really was rancid!

And there's no chance she'll take issue with it, get upset, start an argument....? You can't just tell people not to eat something.
You're making it sound easy because you're behind a screen, it's very different in person.

I LOVE an egg mayo sandwich but anything fishy 🤮

Unfortunately, unless there is a 'no lunch at the desk' policy in place, I think you have to suck it up.

Unless of course, you are willing to politely ask her to eat her sandwich somewhere other than the office?

She needs to eat it outside of the office. It’s good practice anyway to take a proper break and not it at your desk.

Why not just tell her that the smell of her sarnies makes you nauseous and would she please eat them elsewhere or have something that doesn't smell strongly?

Genuinely, the sort of conversation that this thread is, is why I won't eat in work.

I am 99% past an old eating disorder. But people are so judgemental and weird about the food choices of others that the only thing that sets off odd eating patterns in me is the constant, background, niggly complaints or comments on other's food. Everyone always has something to say about how un/healthy or smelly or strange a food is. I eat normally at home; I can eat normally around kids (who are much more polite about what other's eat than adults, despite their lesser social skills). I don't eat around adults I don't know very, very well. Every fucking lunchtime at my work someone has something to say...

What people eat is what they eat. If people stopped making comments all the time, the world would be a better place.

I misread that as “our office kitten…” which conjured up a strange vision! Sorry about eggy colleague OP, I thought you were only supposed to eat two eggs a week? Maybe mention that (don’t worry if I’m right or wrong 😉)