Speaking of Stink, a dispute that began with a comment about a student's reheated lunch has ended with a six-figure payout from the University of Colorado Boulder, where Mork and Mendi went to school.

Yes, of course.

Aditya Prakash and his partner, fellow anthropology Ph.D.S.D.T.E. Bataceria. Sure.

Will receive a combined $200,000 and master's degrees under a settlement resolving their

federal civil rights lawsuit, according to their attorney.

A couple is both from India.

They alleged that a remark about the smell of Prachish's Palak Panir in the department microwave triggered a year-long

campaign of retaliation that ultimately stripped them of their doctoral funding. They have since

left the program move back to India. Prakash said that an administrative assistant called his food, quote,

pungent, and cited an office rule against strong smelling dishes.

When he objected, he said, she began yelling.

Two days later, he and several other students heated Indian food in the same microwave and what they described as a quiet act of protest.

Percash later challenged a department-wide email discouraging foods with strong smells, while they hosted him for a guest lecture on cultural

relativism, where he brought up the microwave incident as an example of, quote, food racism.

Afterward, the couple said they were dropped by their advisors, cited for poor performance, and lost teaching assistant roles,

all because of heating the stuff up in the microwave.

I think a lot of it has to do with their complaint.

Look, it's not what, a cultural racism in this case.

We worked with the girl who's about as milk toast as you could possibly be,

and she made probably the whitest most

mid-American thing you possibly could a tuna melt or whatever was and she heated it up in the

microwave there's nothing ethnic about this it smelled like ass and all of us complained about it

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