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

Which recommends cleaning things like flip flops in the dishwasher.

That's the point of a dishwasher - it cleans, and disinfects. So at the end, everything is clean and germ free.

It's like I had to teach DH that no, we do not need an entirely separate spoon for taking the dog's food out of the tin and puttig it in her bowl because 1) her food is not some germ ridden mess 2) the spoon will be washed and 3) it's okay for the dog food spoon to be washed in the regular dishwasher.

Tbh the care package is a strange idea imho especially if she's already paying for the rooms

Why on earth is she paying for everyone's rooms

Then giving a random care package with a suspicious looking home made brownie in it

Honestly if you left shop bought brownies I’d only eat them if desperate as those things are processed! I always go for home made, it’s nicer and doesn’t have all the extra ingredients.

Same

My OH is a teacher - he's recieved quite a few homemade jams / chutneys / cakes over the years. The grotty year 3s are always so proud to tell him how they helped 🤢 It always feels like such a shame, but it all goes straight in the bin. I have children. I'm under no illusions re their grimness.

I also once lived in a house share, where on of my flatmates made a lovely cake for a bake sale, with all chocolate buttons on the top. Looked delicious. Next morning, she came down, and went into one because it looked as though someone had picked all the buttons off and eaten them. Nope! On closer investigation, we had rats 🙃

Yes I have read those threads and yes I would still eat the homemade brownies. It’s why my immune system is top notch 👌

The people I know and have seen must be unhygienic slobs! 😂 I can think of a few examples off the top of my head:

My husband’s step father once carved meat and wiped his nose with his bare hand then continued

The pizza stall lady I saw today licking her fingers

I have an otherwise clean university friend who puts her husband’s crocs in the dishwasher 😩 - I’ve eaten there before I knew this!

I would 100% eat and be absolutely delighted!

Also this.

MIL thinks I'm awfully virtuous for turning down shop bought cake at her house, but I get the ick being offered mass-produced gack designed to live on a shelf for a week..

Fair enough, I imagine most men wouldn't give two hoots!

If they were gluten free I'd happily eat them, but so many people are very fussy and paranoid about this kind of thing that I probably wouldn't do it if it were my wedding tbh.

It all sounds very twee for wedding guests.

In the real world most people would eat these and love the idea.

Same! I think home made cakes are infinitely nicer than shop bought and used to make biscuits and home made truffles for my DDs teachers when they were at nursery/primary school. I didn't realise until I joined MN how many people would avoid them, and feel a bit silly.

As an aside I'd never heard of a care package at a wedding, I was expecting from the title, it to be something you gave to someone after a hospital stay or if they were unwell

I really couldn't care less about stuff like this, I'd eat it happily and I think this sort of fastidiousness is ridiculous.

The idea that you'll happily eat a mass produced cake that's been made in a factory by people you don't know probably working minimum wage, using industrially produced materials, but that you wouldn't eat one that was made with love by someone you know is the definition of insane to me....

But there's a lot of this sort of thing about.

It depends - if it looks clean / fresh / appetising I will probably eat it - if it doesn't (like the cakes a friend gave me recently) I will bin it. Totally irrational since I've no way of knowing the prep conditions - you eat with the eyes first, as they say!

We eat out far too often so we won’t stop but I think if I was going to a wedding this weekend and knew something was homemade (with no idea who they were and what their kitchen was like) I’d give it to my husband.

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.

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

Okay, sure. But honestly, what exactly do you think the aveage person does in their kitchen? You cook the brownies You stick them in a box. Job done!?

I would hope people aroudn me or who know me don't think I'm some disgusting unhygeniec slob.

I don’t mind homemade stuff if someone is clean/normal.

But I have a friend who is quite physically gross, always talking about gross stuff, picks at her face 🤢 and spits when she talks. She has taken to baking stuff for me and it’s awkward to say the least. The second I can, I yeet it into the bin 😅

I’m sure you’re fine.

That's the thing though, if they do that in a 5 star hygiene rated place, then your only option to avoid risk would be to never eat anything you hadn't cooked yourself and who wants to be that restricted?

This. I understand allergies, but not people who worry about home made baked goods. They know that baking involves hot ovens, yes?

food hygiene rating for a start

Gosh it would never have occurred to me that anyone would have an issue with eating homemade cakes, allergies aside. I'd love having some homemade brownies left for me.

We had homemade shortbread as favours at our wedding and it went down a storm - I'd also made the wedding cake, which again, was well received with not much left at the end of the night.