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

How funny that you think sneering at people makes you so superior.

Your language gives you away - and most of us have plenty of social connections too s thank you. I mean some us us even go to places that serve drinks out of glasses the staff have touched with their ‘gasp’ fingers - I suppose that’s something b the resident germaphobes find horrifying as well.

Id say those of us who have no qualms about a homemade cake are the ones more likely to have wide social connections as we haven’t disappeared up our own rear ends.

The OP has wisely moved on, I think, but we are actually responding to her question, and she made it clear that she was thinking of making a small batch of brownies to distribute to members of her own family and the close family and friends of her sister and husband-to-be on the night before the wedding. She is hardly 'some rando' to these people and I doubt she was planning to dump her carefully baked brownies in a sack either.

I absolutely love the books of Betty (Bard) MacDonald, which I've known since childhood. I really strongly doubt that she would have turned down a good quality home-made brownie. She wrote a lot about good food, the joys of family and friends eating together, the merits of home cooking and how unappetising much US food was - and she was writing about the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. She'd have been a trenchant critic of the US food industry these days, but I don't think she'd have had any time for the diet industry either.

And as cakes are mostly sugar, flour, eggs and fat, unless the fat is completely rancid and the eggs are 'off' (both of which will smell awful before the cake is even made) - there is nothing about the ingredients that are going to make anyone 'ill'. Raw cake mixture is baked at quite a high temperature which will kill most bacteria, and 'things' (hair, dust, germs, etc) will settle just as readily on a shop bought cake as they will on a home baked one. So anyone that way inclined ought not to eat even shop-bought cake unless they can personally vouch for the conditions that cake was kept in during its entire time since leaving the factory. Or even whilst IN the factory.

It's fine, you can all give me your reject cake, I'll sacrifice myself...

Never knowingly refused cake.

And the fact that they assume mass produced food or catered food is superior in all ways

This is the bit that really gets me. I can't even imagine thinking that. What an extraordinary position.

I guess I don't think eating flour, sugar and carbs occasionally is a big deal. What if they left a homemade protein snack? 😂

@BettyBardMacDonald the comments aren't all aimed at you, although your use of language is interesting. There are quite few posters saying they won't eat anything homemade, won't eat at friends, won't let their children eat birthday cake at parties etc. That must be limiting

And the fact that they assume mass produced food or catered food is superior in all ways

This poster buys herself twelve presents throughout the year, then wraps them for herself to open at Christmas!

not surprising but again tragic!

I'm just explaining how it looks from the outside. You do you 🤷‍♀️

Yes I'm sure your lives are full of friends, joy and laughter.

If the brownie is left in the hotel room, the giver won't know its fate either way.

And most people could benefit from finding ways of bolstering social connections that don't involve flour, sugar and other carbs.

@TheKeatingFive

We have enough pleasures in our lives that abstaining from unsolicited baked goods isn't "sad" or a tragedy.

I myself am coming at this from a cultural view. In my culture, hospitality is all and people will be offended if you refuse, unless for allergies or illness. It's a food= love culture. That has stayed with me.

It's not about being desperate for a snack.I don't even eat sugar but if somebody bakes me something, i will eat it.

Your terminology is really unpleasant, why?

Gosh would never even occur to me to be squeamish about home baked goods. I am always thrilled if a colleague brings in some made goodies. I would always gravitate towards home made over commercial any day.

It seems very sad looking from the outside in.

To over focus on one area that is objectively of minimal concern (hygiene) and lose out on the substantial benefits of enjoying other people's good will/hospitality and appreciating delicious home made food.

Your choice, naturally. It just seems a bit tragic to me.

What hogwash. Our lives aren't restricted at all.

Illness and poisoning aren't a concern, as I have stated before. Aesthetics are.

I'm never desperate enough for a biscuit or brownie that I'd eat any old thing some rando plopped into a sack and left in my hotel room.

@TheKeatingFive

We're doing as we see fit. Objective measures are irrelevant.

Do you know how to filter and read just OPs posts? You would’ve answered your own question then.

A hard no from me as I wouldn't eat it and what on earth is a wedding care package? Never heard of it only for elderly sick people

Definite crossover between restricted eating and "massive salads" and dainty performative under eating and shunning homemade on grounds of hygiene - hence the use of terms like gobble/scoff.

You're not actually being 'more careful' on objective measures, you're just falling victim to your own biases.

Have you ever seen food being handled in a factory (when not being filmed) or in a commercial kitchen? Your idea commercial food is safer is very distorted- there are hygiene rules for these places because SO MANY cases of poisoning have happened over the years- domestic cases are very rare by comparison. your sister's SIL is making decisions on the basis of made up prejudice, not facts.

It’s a really lovely gesture so go ahead and give them to your guests
its up to them if they will eat them, such as trying to cut down on sugar or whatever
Very nice of you

Exactly! They’re always “clean”, no doubt about that is there! 🤔