My coworker said my lunch looked sad and it messed with my head more than I expected

I have been meal prepping the same thing for like six months now - grilled chicken, rice, and broccoli in a plastic container. It's efficient, it hits my macros, and honestly I just don't care that much about food variety. But last Thursday my new coworker Jenna glanced over at my lunch and goes 'oh honey, that looks so sad and lonely' and laughed. I brushed it off but it kept bouncing around my brain all day. Like, is it actually sad? Am I the one being weird by turning eating into a chore? She eats this elaborate bento box thing every day with little cute compartments and she told me she spends 30 minutes just arranging it. I never once thought about presentation mattering for a meal just for myself. Has anyone else had a random comment like that totally flip how you see a normal thing you do?

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alice_wilson737d ago

Give that poor chicken and broccoli some respect, Jenna said your lunch was "sad" but it's really just practical and efficient. People who spend 30 minutes arranging a bento box aren't better eaters, they just have different priorities for their time and energy. I packed the same turkey sandwich for ten years straight and nobody ever called it sad because it was the 2000s and we didn't judge each other's food like this. Your lunch is fine, her comment says more about her need to feel superior than about your perfectly good meal.