To not like cake.

I’m not a big cake fan either, nor crisps. Chocolate, biscuits, yes, but cake and crisps I will eat, but it’s just meh to me.

I don't like cake either.
It's just not a treat.
Will happily have biscuits/ tray bake type things.
Ice cream- not a treat either.

Grown people get over excited about pastel coloured cakes imo 🤣

too sweet yet bland, would rather eat a flapjack!

I agree that most commercial cakes are bad. Full of preservatives and colouring and stuff you wouldn’t put in a home baked cake. But a home baked one is lovely. I don’t bake often but enjoy the result when I do.

But who doesn’t enjoy a freshly baked scone with jam and cream?

DH doesn't like cake much either.

He'll have a small slice on DC birthday but otherwise won't touch it, doesn't really hate it but not point forcing down something that is also so unhealthy (on top of the lager/wine/burgers/bacon/white bread he does like)?

I would rather pass on many cakes too - they have to be 'worth it' and some definitely aren't.

I have to say I make the most fabulous cakes. DGS birthday coming up,am doing Resident Evil for him. I can't stand supermarket bought cakes, they are revolting, taste of chemicals or sawdust! I can't stand pizzas, coke or pepsi and people think that's really weird. Everyone is different.

With you all the way! Moost pointless combination of flour, eggs and butter!
And as for the whole 'let's play with our food until it resembles something completely different' way of doing cakes...😠😠🤬

🤣 this did make me laugh as I have this thought also! When we do bake sale at school I bake a batch of cakes and ice them with my son, I'm very particular on hygiene.... and that's the only one I buy for him when we go to the stall! Makes me feel silly but I am a bit funny about the handmade ones at a school fair! And I don't really like cake either (son does!)

Yes. I love cake and Britain has some excellent traditional cakes. But nowadays most cake is crap. Particularly commercial cake. Can’t remember the last time I had a genuinely nice cake from a cafe or shop. They are usually too sweet or two dry or covered in overly sweet topping.

I blame America.

I feel you OP! It's actually really annoying because so many people just can't accept it, and in certain cases cake is a cultural custom where it becomes rude to refuse.

I went to a party once where the host had made not one, but three different types of cake! And she was really very pushy about everyone trying a bit of each. I reiterated that I simply don't like cake but thank you very much for the offer, and was made to feel that I was being very rude.

I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and because I'm not used to eating much sugar, if I do have to force myself to eat something sweet for the sake of politeness it makes me feel quite sick.

I used to be very unbothered about cake. Something switched in my fifties: now I get up in the middle of the night to make one of these https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/microwave-mug-cake

(You'd need a giant mug, btw! I make mine in a 1 litre bowl)

I don't like cake much-but I do love baking! So if you come to my house you get cake.....

Most British, cakes even homemade cafe ones, are way too sweet. Tooth achingly sweet. Sometimes they’re even dry. And then there’s the weird fondant icing that’s prevalent along with those overly candy covered cakes. Or sprinkling fucking confectioner’s sugar over everything. I prefer American cakes much more and they don’t layer on the sugar as much.

God I wish I didn't like cake!

Not keen on cake, biscuits, sweets or chocolate either. Give me the cheese!!! Unfortunately I can't eat any of it if I want to stay a healthy weight, so it's a moot point...pass the quinoa salad please.

I love to look at cake. It's visually incredibly appealing. When I see a particularly excellent looking one I have to remind myself that I won't like it.

Once in a while I buy some in hope that it'll taste as good as it looks, but it never does. Sadness ensues.

I don't like anything sweet, cake, choc chip biscuits, puddings, chocolate. People think I'm weird, the looks and gasps I get!

I wonder if it's a genetic thing, like not liking coriander. Just don't like sweet stuff!

I'm very overweight, eat too much other crap.

Shop bought is horrible, homemade is lovely though can be very sweet. I try to reduce the sugar if I can.

YANBU. I don't like ice cream!

Hmm. It depends on the cake, but most are, quite frankly, horrid. My own homemade cakes are good <stealth boast> but pretty much all shop bought cakes are nasty and claggy, and/or much too sweet. On the whole, I'm really not a cake woman.

I'm much more into crisps, cheese and wine. I can take or leave most sweet stuff, including chocolate, but I cannot resist cheese <looks depressedly at cheese induced expanding waistline>

I don’t get cake, either.

Crisps and cheese though ….. (imagine drooling Homer Simpson in his largest housecoat).

@lemonsaretheonlyfruit and it's so specific: nobody tries to push okra on you if you say you're not mad about it, but if you say you don't like cake you might as well be punting kittens over a 6' fence.

OP IM 100% with you - I don’t understand why people get so excited about it. I don’t like it and usually politely turn it down. I also dislike marzipan and icing .. sponge is also too easily ruined and made dry by some peoples home baking .. that’s probably made it worse for me over the years.
bar of chocolate yes please - cake ? No chance .. I’ll have a chocolate tort for a bday cake please !

Oh, and anything with fondant icing deserves to be exorcised. Evil evil stuff.

I don't dislike cake as such, but I can only enjoy a very small slice of it. If it's a homemade cake with low sugar content, I can eat more.

I enjoy the texture (as long as it's not dry and claggy), but I don't like sweet fatty foods in anything more than small doses. Sweet, yes. Fatty, yes. Sweet and fatty? Sickening.

I don't like cake either.

A cheese scone? Yes
Cheesecake? Yes (it's not really cake)
A brownie? Yes.

When I first started work in 1990, the whole office used to go mad for that frozen Sara Lee Black forst gateaux shit (that was soggy when defrosted) Every fucker brought it in for birthdays.