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To not like cake.

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lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 27/05/2024 23:31

I just don't see the attraction of cake. I don't like anything spongey or fairy cakes or tarts or anything.

I'm not virtuous. I'm overweight for my height as I love savoury things/ wine/ cheese/ carbs.

It's definitely not about trying to be 'good'. I just don't like it. But cake seems so everywhere and popular. I went to my mum's friend's house today and the cake she had made came out straight away. I feel rude saying that I don't like it - and I did have a small slice to be polite, but I just didn't and don't enjoy it.

I think maybe it's a texture thing. Anyone else?

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Fraaahnces · 30/05/2024 03:11

I grew up hating cakes, biscuits, cereal, bread, etc… It was the 80’s and everything was all about carbs instead of fat, so my mum forced me to gag down Weetabix every morning before school, and take sandwiches (because what else was there at the time?). I used to bin or swap the sandwiches. I was diagnosed with coeliac disease when I was 20.

unmowngrass · 30/05/2024 03:05

I'm not much for it either. I'll eat it, if it's there, and every now and then it's exactly the thing, but if I never ate cake again the rest of my life I'd be perfectly fine.

I like cheese and bread and cheese scones and sometimes crisps and a sausage roll, and I would eat ice cream every day and twice on Sundays, but I am not very fussed about cake. Or biscuits. But I'd eat them if they're there.

Harry12345 · 29/05/2024 23:47

I don’t like any cake, pastries, meringue, croissants, sweets, cream, jam, pancakes etc

Bourneo · 29/05/2024 23:11

I don't like cake either! Always too sweet and sickly. I love a biscuit though. Literally can't get through a day without them.

DAZZlanch · 29/05/2024 22:24

NRTFT but I understand. I regularly cook my kids omelette. It smells delicious. But the texture makes me boak. I just can’t. Granted, people are less likely to pull out a celebratory omelette but I still get it! Xx

Tisforptarmigan · 28/05/2024 16:31

I really dislike cake - well the sponge part anyway. I just scrape all the gooey insides out and eat that.

Even worse than cake is pastry. Never eat the rotten old depressingly beige stuff. Just yuk.

tedgran · 28/05/2024 16:29

Wish I didn't!

Tallisker · 28/05/2024 16:24

I like fish cakes.

DramaAlpaca · 28/05/2024 14:47

Eistigi · 28/05/2024 08:06

I like cake (ish - it wouldn't be my first choice). But my secret dislike that I don't admit to many people..... I don't like ice-cream.

Same here with ice-cream. Everyone I tell that to seems to think I'm weird, but I don't like the texture or the coldness of it, or any flavours I've tried either.

Elphame · 28/05/2024 14:42

Eistigi · 28/05/2024 08:06

I like cake (ish - it wouldn't be my first choice). But my secret dislike that I don't admit to many people..... I don't like ice-cream.

Neither do I. There is absolutely nothing to like about the stuff.

People just can't understand it, can they?

Idontjetwashthefucker · 28/05/2024 14:38

lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 28/05/2024 14:28

@Idontjetwashthefucker

Ahhh why do people (my kids included) insist on krispy cremes? They are repulsive.

Lord knows, had one at work for a birthday, managed one bite and binned it. I love sweet things but KK made my teeth ache

Elphame · 28/05/2024 14:35

I can take it or leave it. Mostly leave it. The last cake I made was the Yuletide fruit cake of which I ate exactly half a slice. The one before that was probably the previous years!

Krispy Cremes or however they are spelt are just disgusting. Horrible texture and much much too sweet.

And why the love for Red Velvet cake? It just tastes of food colouring

Give me a packet of crisps any day

Original poster
lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 28/05/2024 14:28

@Idontjetwashthefucker

Ahhh why do people (my kids included) insist on krispy cremes? They are repulsive.

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99victoria · 28/05/2024 14:25

I don't really like cake either and I agree with the OP that it can be awkward because cake comes out at so many occasions. I used to have a small piece to be polite but the last couple of years I have taken to explaining that I don't really like cake and, whilst my friends and family all think I'm mad, they all accept that I don't want a slice when it's produced and don't offer it to me.
Like PPs, I'm not a diet freak - I'm a size12 and I love chocolate and pastries, just not keen on cake 😬

Idontjetwashthefucker · 28/05/2024 14:21

shearwater2 · 28/05/2024 14:15

I'm not keen on jam doughnuts but I do like the hot fried ones.

This. You can keep your jam, custard and Krispy Kreme type donuts, give me a hot fried sugared one any day

tobee · 28/05/2024 14:20

I think texture of food is more important than taste and smell in terms of enjoyment

I love good cake. But it's all good of others don't.

shearwater2 · 28/05/2024 14:15

I'm not keen on jam doughnuts but I do like the hot fried ones.

shearwater2 · 28/05/2024 14:14

I don't like shop bought cake, and am fussy about ice cream. I don't like royal icing or over decorated cakes (though I do like cream cheese icing and ganache!) But lovely home made cake I would definitely have a slice of.

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lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 28/05/2024 14:13

Things I love but are not cake (I don't think)

Tarte Tatin (I think that's classed as a pastry)
Apple crumble - (that's a crumble I assume)
Cheese cake (a cake that's not a cake)
Pastel de nata (hmm kind of a tart I suppose?)
A jam donut (I think that's the closest to a cake on here I think)

I do have a sweet tooth of sorts. If someone offers me sone chocolate then I will definitely say yes.

My go to sweet thing (apologies in advance) is those really fizzy strawberry things that take the roof of your mouth off or (I know) tangfastics

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Nannyfannybanny · 28/05/2024 14:11

I don't like donuts, I find them too "heavy", but I don't like meat either but at least no-one thinks that's weird anymore, like 40 odd years ago when I went veggie, I remember a male nurse at work saying it was unhealthy.

JingsMahBucket · 28/05/2024 13:58

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/05/2024 11:56

American pies are perfection. Apple, cherry, blueberry, pumpkin. Always just the right mix of tart and sweet.

I find British cakes cloyingly sweet.

@MrsSkylerWhite Funny you should say that. I was just thinking about and missing American apple pie just this past weekend. I’m going back this summer will indulge in pies, especially blueberry.

mumgodloveher · 28/05/2024 12:47

You are being exceptionally reasonable in my book, OP, because it means more for me🤣🍰

FrangipaniBlue · 28/05/2024 12:18

I'm with you @lemonsaretheonlyfruit give me a delicious cheeseboard over sugary airy fairy cake all day long!!!!

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lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 28/05/2024 12:05

Ah yes I should have narrowed it down to 'I don't like sponge cakes' - but that's most cakes isn't it?

Weirdly my dream job would be a professional cake maker. But they seem to have a lot of over handled fondant! At least I would never be tempted to try any of the cakes I made.

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Gorgonemilezola · 28/05/2024 11:57

I like a good plain cake but invariably the cake/icing ratio is all wrong. Inches of sickly buttercream, no thank you.

I love fruit cake with a thin covering of marzipan and no royal or fondant.