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 don't think you needed to cut a whole slice to 'test' a cake.

I am afraid I would have told her where to go and removed cake from sale - but I get annoyed with "organising be-atches"

It was your cake and if you'd tasted at home there'd be a slice missing which would be weird.
YANBU.

What did you plan to do if it wasn't okay?

I would have cut a bigger lump & paid for that

Oh for goodness sake, this was a colleague who presumably knew the OP had made and donated the cake herself. Even if she thought, in her own head, that the OP should have donated the £1.50, making an issue out of it was silly and OTT.

I arrange the cake sales at work, because I am 'that' person!

I would have expected you to try it at home before handing it over. But I wouldn't call it stealing, I would say it's poor form - but I wouldn't have said anything probably or made a big deal of it. Cake sales are for fun and free calories - no calories in charity cake!

Now I'm bloody dying for a slice of cake.

YANBU. Cheeky mare! Tell her to take it out of the cost of the ingredients! It is for charity but you made your contribution in paying for and making the cake in the first place.

Agree £1.50 is steep. £1 for cake and 50p for tea when our trolley comes round :)

If someone told me to pay £1.50 for eating a slice of my own cake I would have a hard job not laughing in their face.

It's not a huge deal though really.

Just imagine what the woman's op would be.

In all honesty, what would you have done at that point if it was shit?

Goingtobeawesome - well if it was horrible, I would have withdrawn it and donated a bit of money instead.

'Bad form'.. Utterly ridiculous.

You did more than enough for charity by taking the time and effort to source the ingredients, bake the damn cake & then sell it at a charity event..

Some people are crackers!

"Bad form"

Eating a slice of your own kindly donated cake.

That's funny

£1.50 a slice.

You could have cut a bit off and filled it with the icing and no one would have noticed, there was no need to cut a whole slice.

And 50p to £1 where I am too, in any cake sale I've been to.

I'm finding the 'bad form' comment a bit funny as well.

'Bad form'?

Where do you work, Downton Abbey?

'Bad form'?? How? It's her bloody cake!! If she had wanted to she could have picked the whole cake up and shoved it in her mouth or shoved it in the snooty woman's face

Even though you made it, the reason I imagine she said it's poor form is because if you aren't paying for it. You essentially ate what someone else could of ate and paid for, therefore the charity was deprived of that money.

Would you have cut into another cake and not paid?

Would you really have withdrawn it!

Come on op admit it, you fancied a bit of cake....you knew how delicious it was

I do like the term bad form....don't know why, but I always feel it should be shouted in a Brian Blessed manner.

You not paying is bad form.

Her having the gall to ask is worse form though.

If she'd tried it at home it would have been exactly the same Exasperated. She wanted to make sure the cake tasted alright.

Did you kwoff it down with a touch of the old 'ah just testing'