To not like cake.

Not a cake fan either, but there's not much I wouldn't do for a slice of cheese or unattended sausage roll.

However I do love an occasional cornflake cake, boudoir finger or trifle sponge. See 'sensory seeking'

Agreed! DM is not a cake fan. Her friends literally get angry with her about it. Cake lovers, please just learn to live and let live 🙏🏻

Also, buttercream is good but only if there's not an excessive amount of it and it's made with actual butter. The 'buttercream' you get on bought cakes, that's made with vegetable oil, emulsifiers and artificial flavouring is grim!

I love cake! Especially homemade, because it's better and has proper ingredients and I'm not a hygiene-obsessed germophobe <disclaimer - having actual OCD is obviously a different matter>. I work in a school and will very happily eat cookies and cakes made by the students and have done for decades with no ill effects!

My friend doesn't really like sweets things. She prefers savoury food. I think cake is bloody marvellous. We both had our bodies' response to sugar tested through Zoe. She could handle sugar exceptionally well - tiny blood sugar rise. I handled it exceptionally poorly - massive blood sugar high, massive low. We wondered if this biological difference affected our food preferences. Basically, I get a massive "hit" from the sugar, but she doesn't .

i love Black Forest gateaux! Gutted it’s out of fashion!

We should be friends. I only like the cake bit and leave the gooey inside stuff/ icing etc to the side.

Between us, we’d only need to buy one slice. Think of the money we could save at cafes!

You’re in the minority. A slice of cake is a very normal thing to offer a guest. I love cake

Homemade ... I meant bad hygene thoughts put me off.

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Can’t stand cake with @lemonsaretheonlyfruit ✊

Home made cake puts me off. Hugeness thoughts...
Also too stodgy. I often decline

I'm so glad I've found this post and responses like these!😄 I also don't see the appeal. 90% cakes I've tried are buttercream (victoria at best) sponge. It could be the UK thing as well. I've tried cakes in other European countries and actually liked them as they are more layered with different textures.

Sponge cake, either home made or shop bought I will eat but never enjoy and usually regret eating, especially if it has sickly too sweet icing or even worse, buttercream. But a piece of dark, rich fruit cake is a thing of wondrous beauty, especially with a piece of crumbly Lancashire or Wensleydale cheese. When did wedding cake change from fruit cake to sponge? Really disappoints me as I am expecting a lovely piece of fruity delight, and instead get a piece of drying sponge with oversweet icing.

I adore baking-and made my living doing it for a while. But I don't like cake much either. I'd much rather have something bread or pastry based.

I like my own cake and home made icecream. Also cakes at local village fetes tend to be OK because they are homemade.
But bought cake/icecream is far too sweet, and as fror "cupcakes" - yuk.
Over the years there has been a trend to make everything sweeter, eg. pickle and ketchup, which is why it has to be refrigerated now. For instance pickled onions... they never had to be kept in the fridge because they were sourer.

People like different things op, and cake clearly isn't your thing. That's fine. It's also acceptable to decline something you don't like, otherwise it will be offered again!

However, a absence of a poll suggests you probably knew you were going to get a high proportion of YABU. 🤣

I love cake but not too keen on very sugary icing and buttercream, or thick jam or a very dry cake. My favourite are things like fruitcake, or lemon cake and I like all those sweet breads, scones or pastries and flapjacks that are only medium sweet.
Overall I have to say not liking sweet things is a good thing, as whilst I think you can have some sweets in moderation as part of a healthy diet if you love them it's not easy to be moderate.

I'm not a dessert person in general but in particular I don't see the attraction of cake or ice cream. I've been with my DH for 30 years and MIL still acts surprised whenever I turn down cake even though I have literally never said yes to it during that time. I am a complete chocoholic though but doesn't mean I want a chocolate cake or tart or anything.

I could have written this post. Cake just doesn't do it for me.

I find more savoury cakes like coffee, carrot and banana cake more tolerable.

I've just remembered there is one cake I like but you can't get it anymore, Sara Lee Black Forest Gateau - now that WAS a cake 🎂

I love cake! Where do you stand with a flapjack or a brownie...? The textures of those are quite different to a classic sponge. Or maybe you're just not a sweet person, my husband would always take a starter over a pudding whereas I would happily eat desserts all day to be honest...

I love it. But I don’t like olives, which plenty of people think is odd.

Typo - when I was 30!!!