I hate when people scrutize my food
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vikinglander wrote: »DJ_Skywalker wrote: »DJ_Skywalker wrote: »fitoverfortymom wrote: »My husband used to have a coworker who would come over to his desk, open his drawer, and inspect the contents of his lunch and comment on how healthy it was.
:huh: People need a good dose of MYOB! I blame social media. Unless I'm posting my lunch on Instattentionseeker, I'm not inviting comments. Grr. And get off my lawn while you're at it!
Oh, but your grass is so pretty
You must be picnicking on someone else's yard! Just don't critique their lunch, ok?
I will if they are having anchovies on their pizza .... anchovies do not belong on pizza
Neither does pineapple!
Yes, and Yes! (BTW, do you know where pineapple and ham, or 'Hawaiian' pizza was first made?? Ontario, Canada. Go fig-yah...)
They probably put poutine on their pizza too
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DJ_Skywalker wrote: »DJ_Skywalker wrote: »fitoverfortymom wrote: »My husband used to have a coworker who would come over to his desk, open his drawer, and inspect the contents of his lunch and comment on how healthy it was.
:huh: People need a good dose of MYOB! I blame social media. Unless I'm posting my lunch on Instattentionseeker, I'm not inviting comments. Grr. And get off my lawn while you're at it!
Oh, but your grass is so pretty
You must be picnicking on someone else's yard! Just don't critique their lunch, ok?
I will if they are having anchovies on their pizza .... anchovies do not belong on pizza
Neither does pineapple!
I love pineapple on pizza! Anchovies aren't bad either.2 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Bit of a sidetrack, but I don't get the hate for tuna in this thread. I don't have it for lunch much but there is often someone with tuna of some sort and it doesn't smell in any way that impacts me eating? Canned or otherwise? What kind of tuna are people having that stinks?
I think canned tuna stinks, but maybe it's just something some notice and some don't. (Foods others think smell bad don't bother me.)
Anyway, I wouldn't comment on that, since it would be rude and I tend to think I'm the weird one.1 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Bit of a sidetrack, but I don't get the hate for tuna in this thread. I don't have it for lunch much but there is often someone with tuna of some sort and it doesn't smell in any way that impacts me eating? Canned or otherwise? What kind of tuna are people having that stinks?
I think canned tuna stinks, but maybe it's just something some notice and some don't. (Foods others think smell bad don't bother me.)
Anyway, I wouldn't comment on that, since it would be rude and I tend to think I'm the weird one.
I can't stand the smell of broccoli, but I could never tell someone that it stinks. Someone may not like the way my Cinnabon sticky bun smells2 -
I tend to take these kinds of threads with a grain of salt, like the "my spouse is horrible" ones. We only have one side of the story and it's not uncommon to have someone build up a single comment or two (like "is that all you have for lunch? Do you want to run get something? Or here, have some of my sandwich") with some kind of extreme harassing. We'd probably get a different story from the co-worker (or maybe not, some people are just weird).
I actually find that kind of thing annoying too (I would never want any of someone else's sandwich--I went to a Bears game with someone once not intending to eat or to buy something if I wanted it and my friend kept trying to push her healthy extra sandwich on me), but I see it as understandable and well-intentioned, and if I told someone else I was really hungry and then proceeded to not eat or eat very little I would not be surprised or bothered at a comment.12 -
fitoverfortymom wrote: »My husband used to have a coworker who would come over to his desk, open his drawer, and inspect the contents of his lunch and comment on how healthy it was.
I feel like flagging your post based on its content.
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I would be more concerned with eating the STINKY tuna in a room full of people. lol2
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We talk about all da foodz here and look how we fight. It's carrying over into the real world. Or right, maybe it started there first.
Edited to add: I hate lettuce so much.
I will never understand iceburg lettuce. Why is this the norm as a salad base?! There is no nutritional value and it tastes like . . . . nothing (to me, anyway). Other lettuces aren't much better, but I'll take a good spinach or kale salad :93 -
We talk about all da foodz here and look how we fight. It's carrying over into the real world. Or right, maybe it started there first.
Edited to add: I hate lettuce so much.
I will never understand iceburg lettuce. Why is this the norm as a salad base?! There is no nutritional value and it tastes like . . . . nothing (to me, anyway). Other lettuces aren't much better, but I'll take a good spinach or kale salad :9
I love spinach and tuna ... with bacon4 -
People are really bad at making small talk, and food is one of those things (like the weather) that everyone can talk about, because everyone eats. I know these comments are annoying, but the intentions probably weren't bad.
And people I work with always assuming I am judging what they eat, because I usually eat very healthy. I always get these weird, "Ugh, I need to eat like you but I was just craving fries!" comments that make me a little uncomfortable, too. I think we're all a little weird when it comes to eating!!!4 -
We talk about all da foodz here and look how we fight. It's carrying over into the real world. Or right, maybe it started there first.
Edited to add: I hate lettuce so much.
I only fight about food on the internet! (Except for with my sister. I am obnoxious if she eats canned tuna (especially with mayo, awful!) around me, since we started that more than 30 years ago and I miss the 80s).5 -
We talk about all da foodz here and look how we fight. It's carrying over into the real world. Or right, maybe it started there first.
Edited to add: I hate lettuce so much.
I will never understand iceburg lettuce. Why is this the norm as a salad base?! There is no nutritional value and it tastes like . . . . nothing (to me, anyway). Other lettuces aren't much better, but I'll take a good spinach or kale salad :9
I LOVE iceburg with my spinach or kale, I have to have the crunch!2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Bit of a sidetrack, but I don't get the hate for tuna in this thread. I don't have it for lunch much but there is often someone with tuna of some sort and it doesn't smell in any way that impacts me eating? Canned or otherwise? What kind of tuna are people having that stinks?
I think canned tuna stinks, but maybe it's just something some notice and some don't. (Foods others think smell bad don't bother me.)
Anyway, I wouldn't comment on that, since it would be rude and I tend to think I'm the weird one.
My cat loves it and eats a lot of it and he is over 100 years old!
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lemurcat12 wrote: »We talk about all da foodz here and look how we fight. It's carrying over into the real world. Or right, maybe it started there first.
Edited to add: I hate lettuce so much.
I only fight about food on the internet! (Except for with my sister. I am obnoxious if she eats canned tuna (especially with mayo, awful!) around me, since we started that more than 30 years ago and I miss the 80s).
Sigh ... I miss the 80's2 -
I NEVER EVER comment on anyone's food, weight, or any personal aspects in the workplace. The only exception is possibly a positive comment on a great new haircut or something like "gee that smells good" when someone has yummy food. It's just rude to make negative or intrusive comments.
If someone commented that she was very hungry, and then picked at a small amount of tuna, I might have THOUGHT it was a little odd, but would never have commented. Repeated behavior along those lines might have made me wonder about an eating disorder or an overly serious diet. But unless I had a close relationship with the person I would never comment.
Yes, your co-worker was rude. Yes it's annoying to have your food scrutinized for any reason.
One of my co-workers went through a siege of commenting if she disliked what someone was eating or how it was prepared. Like every day she did this. I finally got tired of it. The last time she commented on my food, my reply was, "I tell you what. You eat what you want and I will eat what I want and we will both be happy." She shut up and hasn't done it since.3 -
DJ_Skywalker wrote: »I can't assume whether someone is eating 500-3000 calories a day just by 2 oz of tuna or a leaf of lettuce. Who knows what they had for breakfast or will have at home. We are so busy at work, so many of us hardly have time to eat during the day apart from snacking here and there.
Yeah but again... OP said she was hungry! Then she ate almost nothing.
Context, people.5 -
DJ_Skywalker wrote: »I can't assume whether someone is eating 500-3000 calories a day just by 2 oz of tuna or a leaf of lettuce. Who knows what they had for breakfast or will have at home. We are so busy at work, so many of us hardly have time to eat during the day apart from snacking here and there.
Yeah but again... OP said she was hungry! Then she ate almost nothing.
Context, people.
I can tell you I'm hungry right now and still only eat tuna ... why? Because it's all I have at the moment, it's what I've allowed in my calories for lunch or maybe I don't want to be the only one eating a full meal during a meeting ... whatever the reason wouldn't excuse rude behavior3 -
DJ_Skywalker wrote: »DJ_Skywalker wrote: »I can't assume whether someone is eating 500-3000 calories a day just by 2 oz of tuna or a leaf of lettuce. Who knows what they had for breakfast or will have at home. We are so busy at work, so many of us hardly have time to eat during the day apart from snacking here and there.
Yeah but again... OP said she was hungry! Then she ate almost nothing.
Context, people.
I can tell you I'm hungry right now and still only eat tuna ... why? Because it's all I have at the moment, it's what I've allowed in my calories for lunch or maybe I don't want to be the only one eating a full meal during a meeting ... whatever the reason wouldn't excuse rude behavior
Like I said above, if someone made a thing about being hungry and then didn't eat a meal when everyone else was I'd maybe assume she hadn't had time to go get something or had forgotten it. So, to be nice (since I personally dislike having to skip lunch) I might ask -- as OP said -- if she wanted to go get something, we'd wait. (I wouldn't offer to share, but people have done that to me and I didn't get offended or think it was rude.)
So the idea that the co-worker was being mean doesn't seem consistent with the story to me. (Also, if people were being so pushy about food, why not say something to the lettuce woman. Presumably because it was out of concern as OP had said she was hungry.)
Did the co-worker go over the top if the facts of the OP are 100% accurate? Sure, but people are weird all the time and frankly I am cautious to judge when we don't know the other side.11 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »DJ_Skywalker wrote: »DJ_Skywalker wrote: »I can't assume whether someone is eating 500-3000 calories a day just by 2 oz of tuna or a leaf of lettuce. Who knows what they had for breakfast or will have at home. We are so busy at work, so many of us hardly have time to eat during the day apart from snacking here and there.
Yeah but again... OP said she was hungry! Then she ate almost nothing.
Context, people.
I can tell you I'm hungry right now and still only eat tuna ... why? Because it's all I have at the moment, it's what I've allowed in my calories for lunch or maybe I don't want to be the only one eating a full meal during a meeting ... whatever the reason wouldn't excuse rude behavior
Like I said above, if someone made a thing about being hungry and then didn't eat a meal when everyone else was I'd maybe assume she hadn't had time to go get something or had forgotten it. So, to be nice (since I personally dislike having to skip lunch) I might ask -- as OP said -- if she wanted to go get something, we'd wait. (I wouldn't offer to share, but people have done that to me and I didn't get offended or think it was rude.)
So the idea that the co-worker was being mean doesn't seem consistent with the story to me. (Also, if people were being so pushy about food, why not say something to the lettuce woman. Presumably because it was out of concern as OP had said she was hungry.)
Did the co-worker go over the top if the facts of the OP are 100% accurate? Sure, but people are weird all the time and frankly I am cautious to judge when we don't know the other side.
Agreed about being cautious to judge
I just felt the OP was truly bothered by it and she may have reason for it ... reason that we don't know about.
I read OP state that not everyone in the meeting was eating so I figured she was nibbling on her tuna since she was hungry.2 -
Just because someone states he or she is hungry doesn't mean that person intends to eat a double cheeseburger, large order of fries, and a giant milkshake. Being hungry doesn't imply requiring the consumption of a full on meal. I can be hungry, eat an apple, and then I'm good. For the OP a small can of tuna was enough to satisfy her hunger. What she eats, and how much she eats, is entirely her business.5
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