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![]() ![]() Heating tuna in the microwave at work
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, Jul 15 2019 01:36 PM
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#51Posted 15 July 2019 - 03:51 PM
Well, I did it, I'm now eating last night's reheated mornay and it is delicious
Hope you're happy with yourselves folks ![]() #52Posted 15 July 2019 - 03:54 PM
Tuna in any form is disgusting and has no place in the work microwaves. But neither does microwave popcorn, that stuff should be banned. It smells like vomit and the smell stays for hours.
#53Posted 15 July 2019 - 03:56 PM
I'll relay my story yet again of my co worker (shared pod) who would empty the tuna oil into his WASTE PAPER BASKET! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ewwww. I mean, oils should go in the bin, or it can clog your plumbing, but not your desk bin. I dont even put my banana peel in my desk bin, as its too stinky, i walk it over to the tearoom bin. #55Posted 15 July 2019 - 04:01 PM
Oh no I do scrambled eggs in the microwave at work. It's my easy lunch when I can't be assed making anything in the morning and just grab 2 slices of bread and 2 eggs.
I eat tuna sandwiches but don't heat them upm #56Posted 15 July 2019 - 04:11 PM
I used to make egg and veggies every single morning in the microwave at work lol.... I got oh here comes i-candi with her eggs gross. I ended up buying a cheap microwave and putting it in the classroom so I only subjected staff to the stench if I was walking around eating it!
I don't eat breakfast anymore. #57Posted 15 July 2019 - 04:38 PM
Eggs and a Tuna is fine as long as I know that’s what is being cooked . The same as Parmesan .
If not warned I associate it with farts , rotten garbage and smelly socks . So me it’s all about the association . If a co worker told me I am going to cook a tuna cheese toastie I would think yum, wish I was having one . However if I suddenly got the smell coming my way when not expecting it I would feel grossed out . I also think it’s the overall way you feel at the moment . On the day I was leaving hospital with my first newborn daughter the hospital decided to serve poached white fish for lunch . I was tired, stressed, still feeling fairly ill and impatiently waiting for paper work to be sorted so we could go home . Yet the whole ward reeked of poached fish and I got a dish of this food plonked in front of me . I was left gagging and so dam irrationally annoyed because it was not a dish I ordered . Baby blues made me sob lol . So I can imagine in a high pressure work environment getting strong smells invading your space would irrationally annoy you . #59Posted 15 July 2019 - 04:51 PM
See, this is why I could never change jobs. We heat up everything and no one complains. There was one day when the four of us had four completely different leftover curries, we all went "OH WELL LET'S ENJOY!"
#61Posted 15 July 2019 - 05:11 PM
NSW health has a big “get healthy at work” program going at the moment. There are grants to buy things to make it easier to keep healthy at work. One of the things you can use the grants for is a microwave so staff can bring food from home and heat meals up. I don’t really get the tuna hate compared to any other food. But then I have a fairly diverse staff, so lots of different foods. I have a new young staff member whose mum makes him home made curries. I’m tying to work out how to get her to make extra......
#62Posted 15 July 2019 - 05:51 PM
I'm an RN. Tuna is one of the least offensive smells we experience during the working day.
#63Posted 15 July 2019 - 05:53 PM
See when you leave your house, people will do things you don't like, but as an adult you just deal, I gag on the smell of cream corn, even corn on the cob is offensive to my little ol' nose, but if a colleague enjoyed a creamed corn toastie, I would find somewhere else to eat my lunch because they are doing nothing wrong, they are making and eating their lunch in the lunch room.
If I was told either verbally or via signage someone was allergic to a certain food, I would avoid bringing that food to work, but otherwise grow up. Edited by Cherubs, 15 July 2019 - 06:28 PM. #64Posted 15 July 2019 - 05:59 PM
I can’t remember the last i time I ate tuna at work but I don’t really care if others do.
#65Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:04 PM
I avoid tuna at work because I know a lot of people dont like the smell.
Even though I love the taste and I don't care about the smell myself. Edited by WannabeMasterchef, 15 July 2019 - 06:05 PM. #66Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:04 PM
How is tuna any worse than curry, chilli, spicy foods etc?
I loathe bananas and the smell of them makes me feel ill but I certainly wouldn't expect people not to eat them in the tea room. I stir tuna (flavoured or plain) in to two minute noodles, with cheese for lunch sometimes. ![]() #67Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:09 PM
I worked with a colleague who blocked the garbage disposal in the tea room sink with her bone broth. Smelt like an abattoir.
#68Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:24 PM
Getting upset about what other people eat/heat reminds me of the horrible reactions to the lunches of the Italian and Greek kids at my school way back in the 1960s.
#69Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:26 PM
Aren't you supposed to strain the all the solid bit out of broth, before you eat it? like before serving it to take to work, I mean?
Edited by Cherubs, 15 July 2019 - 06:29 PM. #70Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:39 PM
Getting upset about what other people eat/heat reminds me of the horrible reactions to the lunches of the Italian and Greek kids at my school way back in the 1960s. Hell, I was still getting it for Maltese food in the 90s. Tomato paste is so used a spread people, you're just not used to it. #71Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:40 PM
most of the curries heated up by colleagues smell pretty good....it’s just the nasty tuna - and i actually only see the skippys eating that....
#72Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:46 PM
I'll relay my story yet again of my co worker (shared pod) who would empty the tuna oil into his WASTE PAPER BASKET! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They got rid of our bins ages ago so you have to go to the kitchen. I love Sardines on toast and hard boiled eggs at work. Since they banned the toasters it's too hard to have sardines though. Don't know why you'd want to heat tuna unless it's a tuna steak. #74Posted 15 July 2019 - 06:53 PM
A colleague of mine took a preventative approach of having a large 'No Tuna' sign above their desk.
I personally don't like the smell, but the only time it really bothered me was when I worked in a tiny office next to the kitchen - lots of tuna dishes all day every day - yuk! 0 user(s) are reading this topic0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users |
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