The work fridge.
What a curious beast this is. It's home to hundreds of box-shaped Sainsbury's carrier bags, and no one knows what lies beneath. Then there are the requisite million pints of milk that go within seconds, the usual M&S salads and endless tubs of low-fat butter, Flora, margarine (say it with a hard G), etc. It usually ends up so full of old, forgotten, sad food that an email goes round announcing that everything will be chucked out if not claimed. So that's everything then.
Yesterday, a particularly rank ex-lasagna in a Tupperware container was making its presence felt. Which got me thinking - what's really odd about the work fridge is those things that while you might not think them unusual at home, it's a mystery as to why they're at work:
1. Big tubs of cream
Now either someone has bought it with the intention of taking it home, or they're having trifle every lunchtime, and don't baulk at being liberal with the cream. Mark my words, this vat of Elmlea will still be there in a month's time.
2. Jars of jalapeno peppers
Is someone making their own tacos? They're not really a salad garnish. So why?
3. Patak's marsala curry paste
We don't have a cooker. And it's not a sauce to be heated up in the microwave. It's a marinade, a baste. So who's the curry queen - and why?
4. Plastic cups with about a milimetre of fruit cocktail in them
Why keep this? It's uncovered, dry and there's only about a mouthful there. And when it got thrown away (by me) there was an outcry. Don't be silly. Either eat the whole thing or bin it.
5. Pesto
And lots of it. Who's whipping up inventive pasta dishes of a lunchtime? I've never seen anyone put a pan on to boil, mainly because it's impossible. I don't think it's possible to cook pasta in a microwave, or if it is, it must be foul. So why the pesto?
I'm going to hover and see what belongs to who. Then ask the question we're all asking: Why?!
