to think its the hight of rudeness to call my homemade lemon drizzle cake junk food

[Pollydont]

For my birthday I made a cake to bring into work, a fresh lemon drizzle cake (contains 4 lemons) and no addatives or nastys.

Anyway one guy at work said his body is a temple and he doesn't eat junk food.

I wanted to slap him, homemade stuff isn't the same as junk food!

Very rude. You now need to make the most amazing looking chocolate cake to bring in to work and wave it in front of his face saying, "I won't cut you a slice as you don't eat junk food!"

My body is also a temple....where I worship the cake gods.

I would say junk is anything that taxes the body rather than contributes.

So while a home made cake made from processed ingredients contributes energy by way of calories, and in the case of lemon drizzle cake possibly Vitamin C (though Vit C is heat sensitive so may be very little of this) processing all the sugar/simple carbs and saturated fat and stabilising the insulin and other hormones in the body affected by the cake, uses up more vitamins and minerals than the cake as a whole contributes to the body. The body has to then find these vitamins and minerals from elsewhere in the body.

The more cake/junk you eat, the harder it is to find the vitamins/minerals to process it. In an otherwise healthy balanced diet there will probably be vits/mins to hand to cope with the odd piece of cake. - no problem.

When you are eating processed food daily you are taxing your body daily. If your diet includes more junk/processed foods there is a greater daily tax on your body via processing the processed foods and you are much less likely to have a bank of vits/mins to hand to call on.

So by that reasoning I don't think it is unreasonable to call the cake junk.

he sounds like a moron.

I used to work with someone who thought he was god's gift to women (he absolutely wasn't) and one day he told me his body was a temple.

I told him I'm an atheist.

By the way, I'll happily eat cake. I'll even eat it with a side serving of fruit.

I should also state very clearly that I love and eat junkcake

He sounds insufferably rude. Don't give him a second thought.

Either that or insufferably dull, like BeCool.

Mintyy how rude!!

It's science ya know!

And so by that reasoning it isnt unreasonable to call brocolli junk if thats all you eat. Because the body needs calories to process the brocolli, and the brocolli will not deliver enough to keep basic bodily functions going and be digested.

My point is that the only time cake or burgers or crisps or sweets become "junk" is when they are eaten almost exclusively. Thats why in my world there is no such thing as junk food, there is just food.

You now need to make the most amazing looking chocolate cake to bring in to work and wave it in front of his face saying, "I won't cut you a slice as you don't eat junk food!"

Why would he necessarily care?

Don't get me wrong, I like the odd slice of cake now and then but I genuinely wouldn't care if someone did that...any more than I'd care if they opened a pack of biscuits and didn't offer them round.

I think you need to start a cake club. A new cake every week. He wont eat it but if my experience of people like that is anything to go by, he will be pissed off that a) he isnt included by his own hand and b) no one cares what he says!

The point isnt cake but "look at me!" and if no one looks at him......

How rude, obviously he should have passed politely but, I can't help but feel a little sorry for him as he must be low in genuine self confidence and /or social graces to say what he did, whereas you are kind and generous for making and sharing a cake.

He might not want the cake but it would irk most people to not be offered a piece. And serves him right for being rude and judgemental instead of politely saying no thank you.

I love lemon drizzle cake. I consider it as being a treat, not junk food.

It's not junk food as in turkey twisters. But it is void of nutrition (white wheat, sugar etc) with the exception of the lemon juice. It's not as bad as a snickers bar though.

Offer him a carrot stick and tell him where he can shove it!
I'm not partial to many sweet foods but if someone brought in a homemade cake I would accept most graciously.
I really dislike samosas, they are ubiquitous here, but I eat Indian food all the time. I would not call a samosa junk food because it isn't, I just don't like them. However if a friend or colleague offered me one I'd accept in good grace .
Many a time I have gagged at cups of Indian tea from my next door neighbour but they sure make a lovely ( smelly) Bombay duck.
Rather a piece of you lemon drizzle than an handful of ghoggi berries or whatever they are called ( with all their phoney health claims).

Next time offer him a cup of "worthy" broth. Tell him it's wheat grass but just pee in it and add green food colouring.

It's not as bad as a snickers bar though.

Cheeky welcome to the insufferably dull bench.

Peanuts in snickers are high in fibre, iron, magnesium and B6, with calcium to boot. None of which the cake has so I think a snickers might be "better" than a lemon drizzle cake nutritionally speaking.

It’s not junk, shop cake is junk.

shop cake is so loaded with sugar you can't taste what's in it. shop chocolate barely tastes like chocolate. i like to taste the chocolate.

your lemon cake sounds great.

DS can rarely eat shop cakes because of soya intolerance. Since that change to our diets, I've really noticed a difference between homemade cakes and mass produced. I wouldn't call homemade junk.

be cool I loved your really dull post about why the cake is actually (delicious) junk.

What treats can we have that aren't junk? Any?

I love lemon drizzle cake.

Sugar is junk though. Bummer!

Homemade cake is still utter junk to many people

Sorry he was so rude, it must have been very annoying

TBH I don't eat gluten at all

I wouldn't have a slice but I might oo and ah over it as I understand that others worship at the cake alter and that you had made an effort

Really wish I had some home made Lemon drizzle cake right now.