AIBU to not pay for the slice of cake?

[bananafish]

This isn't a big deal, really, but I'm somewhat bemused, so here goes.

So, we had a bake sale at work to raise money for a local charity before Christmas.

I baked a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. New recipe, newish oven. It looked good when I put it out, but I was a wee bit nervous it might taste horrible, so I cut a small slice to test it.

The woman who organised the bake sale smiled at me and said: "That will be £1.50, please."

I smiled back and said nothing, as I assumed she was joking. She wasn't; she asked for the money again.

I said that I was just making sure it was OK and I didn't think I needed to pay for the slice of cake? She tutted that it was "bad form", and walked away with her nose in the air.

I appreciate we were raising funds but that's a bit weird, isn't it? Or should I have coughed up?

I think perhaps you should have tasted it at home.

YABU, pretty sure that's stealing...

I would have tasted it at home as well. That being said, the woman was being ridiculous.

If you set it out on the stall then decided to taste it then you should have coughed up imo.

If you wanted to taste it you should have done so at home.

1.50 for a slice of cake is extortionate at a cake sale. Still maybe you should have tried it at home but then it would have been obvious if it was a round cake!

Why would she be joking? Did you then cough up for a slice from someone else's cake or did your 'free' slice fill you up?

It was your cake! YANBU.

Personally I don't think YABU but I do agree with Mumma - you could have tried it at home instead...

How is it stealing when it's your cake?

I would have withdrawn the whole cake and given her the look

or told her to take it out the cost of the ingredients and charge her for them.

Of course it's not 'stealing'.

You just cut a slice out in front of her ?

YANBU
Jobs worth

Yabu

You should have explained and cut a little slither maybe asked her to try it. To cut a piece of your own donated cake and not pay is 'bad form' IMO.

Why didn't you taste it at home? Bit weird to do it at the cake stall. And £1.50 is a huge amount to charge.

Well, it's for charity so I think it's a bit cheeky to say it's offset against the cost of the ingredients.

I think it's s bit weird though that you tasted it tbh.

Yanbu You would have paid out more than £1.50 on the ingredients alone. Don't bother baking anything next time OP

£1.50 is ok for charity surely? Also unless this is a manned stand you'd be surprised at those people that just don't donate

YANBU, if you just took a tiny bit and she knew it was you who baked it. But next time I would bake one with washing up liquid in it try it at home instead.

Yabu and I bet she didn't believe you cut a small slice to test it.

I bake cakes for ds school to raise money for the school.

I don't then eat another bun or let ds take one of our buns without paying for it.

I do a lot of similar fund raising events and yes, whilst it does seem a little ridiculous to 'pay' for something you have donated, it is considered the 'done thing' to do. The whole point is to raise money for charity.

I make cakes with a friend and we sell them twice a year at school fetes. If we eat one of our cakes whilst selling which we obvs do, we put money into the kitty to pay for whatever we take.

And that's just our personal profit we're making sure is balanced, the profit from your cake was going to charity. I agree, it's bad form!

How is it stealing when it's your cake? confused

Because once it's been donated and set out on the stall it's not your cake anymore. Should have paid up, OP.

I didn't think of cutting it and tasting it at home. It was a round cake so it would have looked a bit odd. Oh well, will remember next time. If there is a next time.

*Chapsie' considering OP made the damn cake I don't think she should worry about having a 'free' slice.

YANBU, OP.