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AIBU?

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To bake finger cookies after someone cut their....

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iscream · 16/05/2011 08:32

AIBU to bake some finger cookies for my ds's friend? He accidentally cut the tip of his finger off at work (cook) 2 days ago.
My dh suggested finger cookies, I thought that was brilliant idea!
But looking at the recipes gross me out, so I am not sure if he would be amused or not?

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EssexBecca · 16/05/2011 14:14

We would find it hilarious and it would really help lift our spirits.
But it does depend on the sensitivity on the person - we're not very sensitive in this household but I can think of some friends who I KNOW would be offended.

confuseddotcodotuk · 16/05/2011 14:29

They are both awful and amazing at the same time! I'm 22 and will say that had it been me, I'd be pissing myself laughing at those! Don't know if I could eat them though!

BluddyMoFo · 16/05/2011 14:31

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TimeWasting · 16/05/2011 14:41

Brilliant!

gegs73 · 16/05/2011 14:44

That is brilliant. I'd think that was pretty funny if I'd chopped abit of finger off Very good biscuits too!

Flisspaps · 16/05/2011 14:50

They look amazing.

And I would find them hilarious. Don't throw them out!

mycatoscar · 16/05/2011 14:53

they are amazing, and if it was my finger I think I would find it funny and be touched at the effort

just ask your son, he would know whether it would be taken the right way.

LoopyLiz88 · 16/05/2011 15:01

I'm 23 and if the cookies were from someone I knew very well then I'd get a good laugh from them.

MackerelOfFact · 16/05/2011 16:02

Haha, I was invisiogning hand-shaped gingerbread-type things with a missing finger! Those are pretty funny, I can imagine the hi-jinx you could get up to with a missing fingertip and a batch of finger biscuits.

Or you could just get him a box of chocolate fingers.

starkadder · 16/05/2011 16:10

I'd think it was funny if it were my finger :) BUt they are a bit horrifyingly realistic.

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iscream · 16/05/2011 23:49

Thanks so much for all your replies. You have all made me feel confident! Here is the baked result. Finger Cookies Baked Ds saw them and said "I like your twisted cookies". He said his friend will think they are hilarious. My son had a Spleen Party to celebrate the 1st year of his splenectomy, and he ordered an ice cream cake with a picture of his spleen on it. He also uses a pic of his spleen as his facebook profile quite often. I guess his friend is used to our humour by now. He spends half his life at our place, lol, so he must not mind! I decided to bake some normal chocolate brownies as well, and when ds goes over this evening he is to give him the brownies first, then say how I wasn't sure about these other cookies....and give them to him.

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iscream · 16/05/2011 23:52

PS One corner of that cake says "safe corner", for people who couldn't bring themselves to eat the pic of the spleen. His innocent looking girl friend actually was in charge of the cake.

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SockShitter · 16/05/2011 23:59

those are incredibly impressive as well as revolting.

He will find probably find it funny, but it might also make him feel ill. Cutting your fingers is a bit of a head fuck (not sure why but I found it really upsetting more so than anything else I've ever done and I didnt even cut it off)

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iscream · 17/05/2011 08:11

So, ds went over without the cookies, but told him about them. His friend is doing well, and has not needed to take the painkillers the hospital gave him. he did try to work today, but began bleeding and they sent him back to the hospital. Later his boss helped him fill out some Workmans Compensation forms, and gave him a lot of food to take home with him. (Italian, yum!)

Anyways, he was disappointed ds didn't bring the cookies, so tomorrow he is bringing them with the brownies.

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aldiwhore · 17/05/2011 08:15

He's an adult, I think its a sweet gesture, but not too sickly sweet and he'll probably think you're cool and slightly mad.... which isn't a bad way for a 23 yr old to view his mate's mum.

If he was 7, he'd probably still think it cool, but his mum may disapprove at your 'mocking his pain' - seriously?? - I've always found that the best kind of sympathy comes with a smile and some humour.

I suppose you could do some wailing sympathy but I doubt it would go down too well... I'd deliver the cookies and probably call him a daft sod too.

BonzoDooDah · 17/05/2011 08:19

Wonderful biscuits!! What a star.

valiumredhead · 17/05/2011 08:30

Hmmmmmm not sure on this one. Is there ANY chance his finger will have permanent damage OP? If there is then I would NOT give him the cookies, if it's a flesh wound that will heal quickly then he will probably think they are a laugh and appreciate them.

I had a serious accident and my 'wicked sense of humour' flew straight out of the window and didn't like any jokes made whatsoever, in fact I found them inappropriate and nasty, which I never would've predicted!

Blatherskite · 17/05/2011 08:30

I've chopped the end of my finger off with a kitchen knife before. I'm a bit lot older than 23, but I'd have found them funny.

Hope he likes them :)

LabMonkey · 17/05/2011 08:35

I made a "foot cake" complete with gangrene when my friend had that issue. She thought it was marvellous but perhaps that's just our sense of humour.

takethisonehereforastart · 17/05/2011 09:02

I cut the pad off my thumb once (rogue baked bean tin attacked me as I opened it) and it was glued back down. I would have found it funny if someone baked those cookies for me.

You sound like you know him very well and if you think he will take the joke then go for it.

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