What's for lunch?

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Picard

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A R32 chicken salad.

Chicken, cheese cubes, all three colour peppers, gherkins, cucumber, pineapple (I think), cherry tomoatoes.

My diet has been pretty bad lately. Too much meat and too little fibre.
 
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Picard said:
A R32 chicken salad.

Chicken, cheese cubes, all three colour peppers, gherkins, cucumber, pineapple (I think), cherry tomoatoes.

My diet has been pretty bad lately. Too much meat and too little fibre.
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It's winter
 
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Roti roll with braised tuna, chilli and onion. Then about an hour later a chilli chicken polony in a slice of white bread. Added the new steers flavoured chips by Simba for crunch :D.
 
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KSINGH said:
Roti roll with braised tuna, chilli and onion. Then about an hour later a chilli chicken polony in a slice of white bread. Added the new steers flavoured chips by Simba for crunch :D.
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I have said this before and I will say it again. Wtf kind of Singh ou are you? Chicken and fish on a Tuesday? :D
 
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What's for lunch? Nuts, apparently. :mad:

Invoke Rant:

Just visited my work canteen to grab a late lunch. This late in the day options are limited. I ended up choosing between two wraps. One was a veggie wrap which I discarded because according to the label it contains nuts. The other was a chicken chilli wrap, which I opted for (despite not liking hot things) because I would rather burn my mouth than deal with nuts in my food.

Took my first bite expecting chilli burn. Instead I was left with a mouthful of nuts, and no burn. I had to unroll the wrap and did my best to remove all the cashews (I believe they are) from the food, but invariably I missed some and ended up having to spit out mouthfuls as soon as I felt the crunch.

First question everyone asked me is "Are you allergic to nuts?". Answer: No. I just really dislike them in my food. Immediately I get dismissed as simply being difficult. Since when is not being allergic to nuts a valid reason for dismissing my claim? I may not be, but many of my colleagues are and what if they had bought a mislabelled wrap instead of me? I specifically bought the nut-free wrap but since I'm not allergic, people seem to wonder why I'm upset that my wrap had nuts in it.

Now I'm faced with a problem. I assume that I'm going to get very much the same response from the canteen if I bring the issue up with them. As soon as they hear that I'm not allergic I'll be reduced to a pedantic irritating customer status. So I'm tempted to just say that I am, in fact, allergic, simply so that they will take their (regularly) incorrectly labelled foodstuffs more seriously.

The fact is that the wrap was mislabelled. I bought it based on the listed ingredients, and then it was not what it was supposed to be. If someone who was indeed allergic to nuts had bought one, they would have had a nasty problem.

/rant :mad:

Edit: Ranting helped calm me down. I took the wrap's wrapper with the discarded nuts back to them to show them, and they were genuinely upset that there were unmarked nuts in their food. I declined a refund until the manager came out and insisted on it. One of their first comments was "What if someone had been allergic!". I feel a lot better.
 
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AnibugZA said:
What's for lunch? Nuts, apparently. :mad:

Invoke Rant:

Just visited my work canteen to grab a late lunch. This late in the day options are limited. I ended up choosing between two wraps. One was a veggie wrap which I discarded because according to the label it contains nuts. The other was a chicken chilli wrap, which I opted for (despite not liking hot things) because I would rather burn my mouth than deal with nuts in my food.

Took my first bite expecting chilli burn. Instead I was left with a mouthful of nuts, and no burn. I had to unroll the wrap and did my best to remove all the cashews (I believe they are) from the food, but invariably I missed some and ended up having to spit out mouthfuls as soon as I felt the crunch.

First question everyone asked me is "Are you allergic to nuts?". Answer: No. I just really dislike them in my food. Immediately I get dismissed as simply being difficult. Since when is not being allergic to nuts a valid reason for dismissing my claim? I may not be, but many of my colleagues are and what if they had bought a mislabelled wrap instead of me? I specifically bought the nut-free wrap but since I'm not allergic, people seem to wonder why I'm upset that my wrap had nuts in it.

Now I'm faced with a problem. I assume that I'm going to get very much the same response from the canteen if I bring the issue up with them. As soon as they hear that I'm not allergic I'll be reduced to a pedantic irritating customer status. So I'm tempted to just say that I am, in fact, allergic, simply so that they will take their (regularly) incorrectly labelled foodstuffs more seriously.

The fact is that the wrap was mislabelled. I bought it based on the listed ingredients, and then it was not what it was supposed to be. If someone who was indeed allergic to nuts had bought one, they would have had a nasty problem.

/rant :mad:

Edit: Ranting helped calm me down. I took the wrap's wrapper with the discarded nuts back to them to show them, and they were genuinely upset that there were unmarked nuts in their food. I declined a refund until the manager came out and insisted on it. One of their first comments was "What if someone had been allergic!". I feel a lot better.
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maybe you could acquire a taste for nuts.

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Picard said:
Your colleagues are right ... you are just being difficult.
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Gasp! Would have thought the teacher would grasp a tongue-in-cheek comment (made only for Ksing's entertainment) :p

I don't like nuts very much. Eat them very rarely and then only on their own and in very small quantities. And only a few specific types. All my allergic colleagues weren't around, but the canteen management seemed horrified enough that I didn't have to lie about being allergic.

Next time I'll wait until one of my colleagues is in hospital or dead before complaining :whistling:
 
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AnibugZA said:
What's for lunch? Nuts, apparently. :mad:

Invoke Rant:

First question everyone asked me is "Are you allergic to nuts?". Answer: No. I just really dislike them in my food. Immediately I get dismissed as simply being difficult.
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WTF! I wasn't responding to your post directed at KSINGH.

I'm talking about YOUR rant.
 
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