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

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BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:35

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?

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BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:42

Evaka · 07/03/2025 15:40

What?! Does your friend know how rank business premises can be? That's a super ott reaction.

Well I thought the same. I have a brand new kitchen and you could eat off my floor. And I give a shit about hygiene. It’s going to miles better off than most commercial kitchens

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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.

MojoMoon · 07/03/2025 15:42

Make them, tie a label on saying "Homemade by BusyTrayBake, contains nuts and gluten" and then either people eat them or they don't eat them, their choice.

I would happily eat them

Allshadowlylined · 07/03/2025 15:41

I would think it was a lovely touch but I wouldn't eat it.

Worried861 · 07/03/2025 15:40

It wouldn't occur to me not to eat it but I am very lax with caring about these things 😂

Evaka · 07/03/2025 15:40

What?! Does your friend know how rank business premises can be? That's a super ott reaction.

5128gap · 07/03/2025 15:40

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

purplecorkheart · 07/03/2025 15:40

Sorry I probably wouldn't either. Like that I know a house where the cats used to stick their heads in the jugs of sauces and sit on cakes etc.

Would love to try your recipe though.

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BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:40

I’m known for being a bit like Monica from friends. I know the bride’s side would have no problem but I don’t know about the groom’s family/mates.

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KellySeveride · 07/03/2025 15:38

I won’t eat homemade stuff from people I don’t know sorry.

It stems from a neighbour of ours when I was a kid who used to make celebration cakes…except she lived in an actual shit hole, cat shit stuck to the carpet, the cat was once spotted curled up on top of a cooling fruit cake having a nap! It was the type of house in which you showered when you got home from there. Lovely woman, heart of gold - but disgusting hygiene.

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