to think that if you find a hair in a friends cake, it is poor form to say so

[lukeiamyourmother]

and in front of people too!

I made a cake for a friends party, just a quick one to take along and I was chatting to my friends dad who was saying how much he loves it when people make cakes as its nicer than a tesco's one. Queue inappropriate mutual friend with a hair in his hand "Well, I found a hair in mine!" and brandishing it like a winning lottery ticket. What did he want me to do? If I were a shop I would have given him a refund but I am just a guest who thought it would be nice to take something homemade along. Having thought on it, I don't think I would say. Its like dumping on someone who has only tried to do something nice. AIBU?

Do note: I have long hair, I tie it back and wear a scarf when Im cooking but it still got in there.

My dogs hair has hairs on it, gets everywhere. We have a blue carpet and he's ginger and white. I think I should shave him.

Once watched episode of top gear . Jeremy Clarkson ate an omelet made with hair ....it was proper hairy with tufts on the top .

Tell him to man up and do a Jeremy .

ok sorry .......

Yanbu

So it's not ideal to find a piece of hair in your cake, but there was so need to make a fuss and to show you up, what a rude unpleasant man!

My hair sheds unbelievably, I'm quite astounded there is any left on my head.

I'm sure I remember watching Chris Evans' Friday night show years ago - whatever it was called - and he made spaghetti carbonara, only with long hair substituted for the spaghetti, and he made his sidekick Will (??) eat it.

Very poor manners, you keep schtuuum

catsmother ! Yy "hair carbonara.'! I say that whenever i get a hair in my food. No-one else in rl ever knows what i'm talking about. I love mn.

I sympathise entirely, OP. There's only so much you can do to stop your hair ending up in baked goods, and it's mortifying when it does.

It think it is very rude, I would never mention it.

Well, I wouldn't be able to eat the cake after pulling a hair from it, but I wouldn't embarrass someone by saying something.

But what if they noticed I hadn't eaten it and asked me? What would I say? I couldn't, physically couldn't, continue to eat something I had already pulled a hair from. I know this, because it's happened and I gagged at the thought of it.

But to laugh about it is unspeakably rude. I'd have been mortified.

I have a hairnet that I wear when I am cooking. It ensures no stray hairs at all. Perhaps, if you do a lot of cooking/baking, you could get one, if you are a big shedder

He was a tosser. A friend of mine recently made date balls as part of a wee celebration for me going on maternity leave. I was munching on one and found a hair - it was fairly thick and quite curly. Most likely it was a pube.

Did I say anything? Did I buggery. I picked that date ball apart sonincojld remove said hair which was tightly jammed in and I rammed the pieces in my gob. It was damned tasty.

People make things in their own kitchen. Not a professional environment. Hairs don't make me queezy - bogies would.

It's very rude and I really don't get why people want to vomit over a strand of clean hair. It's so not a big deal.

To you.

Not everyone feels that it's not a big deal.

It would matter to me. It would make me feel sick. I don't want to find stuff in my food. Hair, nails, insects, anything

I just wouldn't be so rude as to say anything to someone who was kind enough to give me cake.

I would rather not have to pick hair out of my food. This particular hair actually got caught between my teeth like dental floss.

I would never have mentioned it anyway but I know that the person who made the balls gets the drive heave at hair in his food so he would have been super mortified.

You don't deliberately put hair in food and if a dinner guest found one of mine I would be very embarassed. To brandish it around is poor show - he'll end up with something much nastier if he does that often enough!

I have just about died laughing all through this thread

^ me too!!
I was reading it again this morning and I couldn't stop!

"shh, they'll all want one" Mumsnet is brilliant for making me laugh embarrassingly through an open window

Greensleeves "blow a vuvuzela & tell him he has won the star prize - a glass of water in the face!"

OMFG I almost pissed myself at this one!!!!

Fab thread.

Many MNetters are squeamish (yet

When was 17 a friend and i were waitressing at a posh do in a country marquee. To get to the catering tent we'd walked through a muddy field and cow pats. A cook had left a large roasting tray of sliced meat in sauce on the floor, which I accidentally stepped in, full foot, leaving visible mud and god-knows-what in the sauce. No-one saw except my friend. Looked at my friend, who picked up a spoon and stirred it in

(not squeamish, still friends, hopefully no-one died [hgrin])

^ oh my god! "stirred it in"

I'm v. bad for picking at people's leftovers. There was a half eaten salad at the bar the other day with some perfectly fine circles of cucumber and I popped them in my mouth, very nice. My friend thought it was disgusting.

Amazed at the posters who would want to boak. It's not the nicest thing, but really - it would make you vomit? Don't you see that everything we eat - whether prepared at home or in factory - probably has a bit of human detritus stirred in? Is the hair just an unwelcome reminder of this fact?

I would quickly dispose of it and try to forget it was ever there. OP, your friend showed horrendously bad manners.

Quirrelquarrel!

Maybe like bf/formula there's a spectrum on MN. Those who feel nauseous about a friend's hair in home-made cake. Those who would eat the cake and not worry too much. Those who munch leftover cucumber circles.

Those who would drink others' dregs?

Confessions anyone?

That made me laugh Dozer.
What the eye doesn't see etc. etc.

Oh and may I add, i spilled my last glass of wine once on the kitchen counter and used a spatula to push it all back in the glass. Then i licked the rest off.
Disclaimer, i was pissed and it was my last glass of wine.