To take a home made cake into work for my birthday knowing at least one person doesnt eat homemade?

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for reasons I cannot fathom

Eliza9917 True. I used to be a bit squeamish, whereas my stepdad had no problem fishing random fleas out of his coffee, but now I'm more meh it won't kill me. We have no 5 second rule in our house though, and I never put any food directly on a counter.

If I can be bothered to take a cake in for work I take in the type, or bake the type that appeals to me. I don't really notice who does and doesn't have a slice (we have breaks at different times) . Some people may be on diets, some not like it or not want a bit for various reasons. The people who want some have some the rest gets taken home.

I have issues with food due to ocd and wouldn't eat it and wouldn't expect you to have to cater to me.

But then the colleague you are talking about didn't ask you to either.

And if having food issues makes me a monstrous snowflake twat or weird or what ever then that's fine but it makes you a bit of a cunt for saying it. So good luck with that. Cunts .

I think home made cakes taste so much better (assuming you are ok at baking) think it's thoughtful to take extra biscuits too for the person who won't eat the cake.

I do see the problem

Chowmum

I generally don't do the 5 second rule because we wear shoes in the house, even without shoes there's feet on the floor, plus we have dogs. If things fall on the floor in my house, if its in the kitchen and can be washed I will, if its anywhere else it goes in the bin. I have done it in my mums though her house is cleaner than mine

Gosh I wish all you fussy people worked with me because it would mean more cake for me!!! Never entered my head to think about where the cake was made - just a chance to check how yummy is the cake!
Never known anyone getting food poisoning from home made cake.
Did a photoshoot last week for a charity fundraising by selling home made cakes -I was in seventh heaven!

I think people are being bit judgemental.

Unless this person has made a big deal about they don't want homemade cake, it's fine for them to just decline it.

They may have anxiety or whatever but tbh no-one has to have a reason for not eating cake if they don't want any. Maybe they just don't like cake, nothing wrong with that.

Unless they're being a twat about it, I don't see the issue. They can just decline. It's wrong to make them feel bad about not having any though, cake eating is not obligatory at work as far as I'm aware.

My DH worked in a cake factory for a while as a temp and if anyone who has a problem eating homemade cakes heard the stories from there they'd never eat any cakes again!

My DH worked in a cake factory for a while as a temp and if anyone who has a problem eating homemade cakes heard the stories from there they'd never eat any cakes again!

Me too - as a student about 35 years ago. Thought hygiene might have improved since then! Really put me off eating bought cakes. Just as an aside, they packed for lots of supermarkets as well as their own brand, and I kid you not, for the one type of cake I was working with, the price difference between the most expensive and the cheapest was 11p - for exactly the same product in different packaging!

@DonkeyOil DHj worked in one in the late 90's. It was closed down due to health & safety issues. The worst bit I heard was the maggots found under a bit of machinery, but there was general lack of hygiene and cleanliness. It was a long time before I ate supermarket cakes again.

He worked in a cheese factory as well and that was nowhere near as bad as the cake factory.

DULLARDS.

I bet those cake factories were no where near as bad as my neighbours house. She paid a woman to go in and feed and walk her dogs while she was away once. The poor woman came to my door and asked if I could help her, the house was so bad she had vomited because of the smell. This was someone who was picking up dog poo for a living.

The social worker used to do meetings with her sitting on the front wall and she wouldn't go in the house.

Tbh most cake isn't even that nice. Shop bought, homemade..people are like "oh wait til you taste MY cakes, they are INCREDIBLE" if you were that good you'd have your own cake shop. There's ONE place in my town the cakes are genuinely delicious. I find most others dry and flavourless. Maybe all the cake pushers on here should consider their cakes aren't all that fabulous despite what they've been told

My cakes are good enough (except the rare occasions when it all goes pear shaped, even so, they're still edible). Even my son's friends think so. They are a tough crowd. Particularly my son, who never eats birthday cake at parties.

I have a better job than cake making. That allows me to MN in the middle of the day, sometimes.

Yeah, to bake for a living for the money I get in my day job I'd need to charge about £4-5 per slice of brownie.

Okay, I'm a total liar. Had leftover 3/4 of a homemade pecan pie, which I brought into work today. Everyone (except a non-wheat eater - I didn't know, wouldn't have mattered if I had) ate some and apparently enjoyed it.

What do I know?

Anyway, take cake, if people eat it, that's fine, if they don't or say no, just leave it at that. Live and let eat cake. Or pie.

@mirime My sister worked as an apprentice joiner in the 80s. One of her first jobs was stripping out a closed down bakery shop. They found allsorts (and not in a nice liquoricey way), up to and including dead pigeons in the water tank.

if you were that good you'd have your own cake shop

Not everyone wants to turn something they do for pleasure into a job. Not that I can bake, but my mum's chocolate brownies are very much sought after in work, even by people who don't usually like brownies. She does a good chocolate fudge cake as well.

if you were that good you'd have your own cake shop

What a daft comment.

My sister is an incredible baker and is regularly commissioned to bake bespoke cakes for parties, events, weddings etc.

However, until a "cake business" can pay her the same as she earns at JP Morgan, I think she's going to stick to her day job...

Your birthday, your cake!

Usernamechecksout - please don't tell me I don't get the point. I DO get the point. As the wife of a housebound man who suffers from such extreme anxiety and depression that he has lost the memory of over half of his life, and looks like a stroke victim I REALLY get the point.

And I reiterate, it IS a first world problem because if I was anywhere other than in a first world country I'd be a widow right now. Okay?!