Page 11 | Would you be grossed out by homemade baked good in care package?

BusyTraybake · 2025-03-07T15:35:54+00:00

I am helping my sister put together care packages for her wedding. She is paying for the wedding party to stay in a posh hotel for a few nights. We are going to leave little care packages on the bed. I have an exceptional brownie recipe and was going to leave a trio of favours in the box. But sister’s SIL says she would never eat a homemade treat due to hygiene reasons. obviously I will be clinically clean and wil even wear a hair net as I couldn’t think of anything worse than someone finding a hair. Who is being weird?

Fullofpop · 08/03/2025 07:34

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/03/2025 07:33

In this case, the bride's sister. I can quite see why the night before the wedding you wouldn't say to a new in-law that you don't trust other people's hygiene so please take it back. Might not help the wedding go with a swing.

Exactly
you’d wrap it in some toilet roll and put it in the bathroom bin!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/03/2025 07:33

In this case, the bride's sister. I can quite see why the night before the wedding you wouldn't say to a new in-law that you don't trust other people's hygiene so please take it back. Might not help the wedding go with a swing.

Fullofpop · 08/03/2025 07:26

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/03/2025 06:57

How sad and wasteful. Do you eat in other people's homes or do you insist on inspecting the kitchen first?

Also, why are all you germphobes accepting home-baked goods and lying about eating them? Why not say 'No thanks'? It would of course cause great offence and reveal you to be paranoid if you explained that your default assumption is that other people have poor hygiene so I can understand why you aren't open about it.

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To be fair, if you arrive at your hotel room to a “care package”… who can you say “no thanks” to

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/03/2025 06:57

Fountofwisdom · 08/03/2025 06:16

Would never buy from a bake sale - my mother drummed it into us that you never know if things have come from a clean home, and I’ve stuck with that. I would chuck the home made brownies in the bin, sorry!

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How sad and wasteful. Do you eat in other people's homes or do you insist on inspecting the kitchen first?

Also, why are all you germphobes accepting home-baked goods and lying about eating them? Why not say 'No thanks'? It would of course cause great offence and reveal you to be paranoid if you explained that your default assumption is that other people have poor hygiene so I can understand why you aren't open about it.

cookingthebooks · 08/03/2025 06:20

5128gap · 07/03/2025 15:40

She is. Does she think every wedding cake she's ever eaten has been made in a factory?

Unless made by a close friend or family member almost all actual home bakers have good hygiene inspections and mandatory training. I’m looking to start my own little home baked cakes business and honestly it’s pretty well regulated.

Fountofwisdom · 08/03/2025 06:16

BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:43

Do people not go to bake sales?

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Would never buy from a bake sale - my mother drummed it into us that you never know if things have come from a clean home, and I’ve stuck with that. I would chuck the home made brownies in the bin, sorry!

UnderTheCover · 08/03/2025 05:32

Homemade baked goods are so much nicer than shop-bought ones. I'd be delighted if the package turned out to contain homemade goods.

Isthiswhatmenthink · 07/03/2025 23:47

BettyBardMacDonald · 07/03/2025 16:17

We don't eat others' homemade food for hygienic reasons. They would go in the bin, sorry.

Tbh all of this faff (personal notes, treats, welcome kits, etc.) is eye-rolling. It's an ordinary wedding, not the second coming. Best wishes to the marrying couple but guests don't need all of these embellishments. It's kind of presumptuous to think that the event is so exceptional that souvenirs, etc., are required. No offense but it's a lot of expense, energy and use of the planet's dwindling resources for something that will be forgotten about or put to back of mind 48 hours later.

Oh I think you meant every bit of offence.

Bbq1 · 07/03/2025 23:45

DappledThings · 07/03/2025 15:42

I wouldn't think twice before eating it. Never known anyone get ill from cake or seen anything other than homemade cake brought into the office/church/someone's house anything other than devoured pretty quickly. Most people don't have these hang-ups.

So people happily eat "homemade" cake in a café but homemade from anywhere else they won't eat? Odd. I would happily eat them. I assume people who bake and produce lovely cakes probably have cleaner kitchens than average.

Daisy12Maisie · 07/03/2025 22:41

I would happily eat it but judging by this thread lots of people wouldn't.

Mañanarama · 07/03/2025 22:26

Huh?

It wouldn’t occur to me not to eat cake.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 07/03/2025 22:25

Thepossibility · 07/03/2025 21:17

If the care package looked pristine and well done (shop standard)I would probably eat it. If it looked just thrown together then no. If someone takes excellent care with the presentation then I would assume they would take the time to be clean.

What strange logic. My kitchen hygiene is excellent and I am a good baker, but my cake decorating skills are basic. You'd assume from the lack of elaborate icing and packaging that my baking would be unsafe. Style over substance.

OuterSpaceCadet · 07/03/2025 21:41

Home-made is better than ultra processed shop cakes any day.

Thepossibility · 07/03/2025 21:17

If the care package looked pristine and well done (shop standard)I would probably eat it. If it looked just thrown together then no. If someone takes excellent care with the presentation then I would assume they would take the time to be clean.

JMSA · 07/03/2025 20:55

I'd love it!

tellmesomethingtrue · 07/03/2025 20:54

What the hell is a care package?!?!?

Bloom15 · 07/03/2025 20:37

I'd eat it but then I am a bigger for scouting hotel rooms for snacks

Alaimo · 07/03/2025 20:36

I'd love this! We have a weekly cofee & cake morning in my office. Everyone is always excited when someone brings homebaked rather than shop-bought cake.

Lentilweaver · 07/03/2025 20:34

cakename23 · 07/03/2025 20:23

This is such an illuminating thread. I had no idea people felt so strongly about this. I am in a choir and every week, a different person sorts the tea break and provides (mostly) home baking. It's all delicious, and shop-bought fare is slightly frowned upon!

Do your brownies, OP. I'm sure most people will love them.

I am in a choir too, and people bring home baked goods all the time. All yummy. Nearly everybody eats them.

daliesque · 07/03/2025 20:32

Doitrightnow · 07/03/2025 16:17

I've never been given a brownie that I haven't eaten immediately.

Exactly. I don't like chocolates and don't like cake, but for some reason brownies are just bliss. Homemade ones particularly so.

daliesque · 07/03/2025 20:31

It sounds like a lovely idea and as a usually miserable old bag, I'd be touched to have a gift box left for me with something homemade.

cakename23 · 07/03/2025 20:23

This is such an illuminating thread. I had no idea people felt so strongly about this. I am in a choir and every week, a different person sorts the tea break and provides (mostly) home baking. It's all delicious, and shop-bought fare is slightly frowned upon!

Do your brownies, OP. I'm sure most people will love them.

Thatcannotberight · 07/03/2025 20:17

I'm wondering how all the kids who did baking with their mums ( other parents are available) and ate raw cake mixture ever survived. 🤣

TheKeatingFive · 07/03/2025 20:17

Lentilweaver · 07/03/2025 20:06

How do those with no allergens or other barriers feel about the delicious street food in Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam or anywhere else street food is great?

The miserable so-and-so's probably
wouldn't go near it. More fool them 😂

Crazybaby123 · 07/03/2025 20:16

I would eat it.
Although to save the fuss I wouldn't bother pressing the issue.