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

I'm the person who wouldn't eat the homemade cake.

Can I ask why?

I am of the eww camp (have OCD) but I'd never expect anyone to go out their way to accomadate me.

I actually did get a bit peeved last year though when I particularly bought a specific cake for a DCs party because an invited 'did not like jam of any kind and could detect it a mile off hidden in ANY cake'.

Later found out said invitees favourite cake is Battenberg. (squares and almond paste is usually all stuck together with jam!).

People don't eat homemade stuff?? It's what goes first where I work!

As long as you aren't bringing the cake for the homemade cake heating person, who cares?

BTW - I don't eat cake at work, homemade or otherwise, because I don't like it. But I don't mind when other people bring it in, why would I?

Oh the angst about a bloody cake - bake it, buy it - people don’t really care that much and if they do they can bake or buy their own. Surely you’re not going to appeal to everybody’s tastes anyway.

YANBU, it's a lovely idea as anybody can take a shop bought cake.

FFS! doesn't eat homemade cakes because ewww germs? Makes you wonder how cooking/baking at home TV programmes, books etc; are so popular, hmmm? Maybe we should all go to a central sterile cooking lab to feed ourselves

And remember OP that most people LOVE homemade stuff. I was at a school Christmas fair last week and hands-down the busiest stalls were a mum who had made the most amazing homemade samosas and another with tray bakes.

Why on earth is there so much cake eating at work? Unless you're testing recipes for Waitrose it all seems ludicrously unnecessary and a bizarre thing to worry about

Some people are weird. Take the homemade cake, it will be much nicer. The picky person can choose not to have any - their choice (same as in my office there is usually one person on a diet who will choose not to have cake for that reason).

YANBU. You're doing a nice thing for people - i's up to them whether or not they want it but they won't (or shouldn't) expect to be catered for individually.

Most people hugely prefer homemade cake to shop bought (ime anyway)so you will be pleasing the majority. I don't know anyone who won't eat home made (unless it is a visibly grubby offering that has been clutched in the hand of a visibly grubby toddler before being given or something). I do know a lot of people who are snobby about shop bought and won't eat that though!

I find it very difficult to eat any cake at all but would never do anything other than smile and say thank you for bringing it in. I would never expect my own personal apple or rice cake alternative (in fact, I'd be mortified if I got it).

It's an office tradition Austentatious - cakes on your birthday. Has happened in every office I've ever been in.

YANBU. It’s your birthday and you’re going to the trouble of making it. Let them eat brioche.

I think its different to cooking at home though Anne.

There's that much stuff that people are allergic too you don't know what can be used what can't. I once got volunteered to make sixty Christmas cakes because DD had said "my mum makes the best!" In class (I'm actually pretty shit at it! ).

There was quite a handful that was allergic to certain things in the ingredients or decorations I'd used (DD told me as I was making them, X can't eat that, Z cant eat this bit). I just bought some shopbought ones to take in with the rest for those who couldn't eat what I'd made.

Some people have a good point. The local cake lady around here used to make her cakes on the same worktop she let her several cats walk on.

There are a few people at work I'd avoid cakes from! They are slightly grubby! 😂

I don't eat anything round two of my friends houses.

One lets her cats walk all over kitchen tops and makes food directly on them. The other is unfortunately living in a house that is a health hazard. She has issues think those hoarding programmes. Out of the house she is exceptionally well turned out and has a decent job. Whilst these two examples are quite extreme and kitchens in professional establishments can be terrible and they get shut down be honest no one knows what people's kitchens are like. There is no legislation. Restaurants break hygiene rules but they afford some sort of protection.

I have eaten homemade cake at work before but cake offered in any place I ever worked was chocolate at least 50% of the time and I really dislike chocolate cake.

I find the ritual of workplace food sharing can be a really nice experience but I actually feel sorry for anyone who for whatever reason does not join in. I actually don't like biscuits and am generally not keen on sweet things at all. So I joined in sometimes and ate homemade cake whilst thinking fuck me give me a bag of crisps. Plus only women bought in homemade cake and felt like feeding everyone, men never did. On my 40th birthday I bought in the only sweet thing that I do really like, ice cream for 50 people.

Don't pander to such pathetic nonsense. Homemade is so superior, why should others suffer because of her stupid hang ups? I wouldn't cater for her at all.

Why would you indulge such tomfoolery? Make a cake.

Take the homemade cake- why should the majority miss out on it because of one fussy person?
Even if she had an allergy/intolerance (and I’m in that situation myself) an individual free-from portion or packet of nice cookies could brought in and offered. I’m always delighted if someone makes that effort for me but I don’t expect it (and from experience I can tell you that making decent free from cakes is much more difficult than normal baking, and I would want everyone else to have substandard cake on my account ).

Some people have very funny ideas about food-
My NDN won’t eat any meat that’s been frozen, although she’ll cook with it and feed it to her family!

My pil refused a bag of apples that we’d just picked off one of our apple trees (we have a large garden with an orchard) he asked us if they were safe to eat and was very sceptical when we said they were better than any he could buy in the shops (completely pesticide free and so fresh they were growing on the tree an hour before!). They are similar with veg, they think veg should come wrapped in plastic from the supermarket and not get pulled out of the dirty ground

Obviously it’s very different when you NEED to avoid certain ingredients, but I know a few (non allergic/intolerant) people who won’t eat homemade (unless they cook it themselves) but strangely each of them is happy to eat out in restaurants...

Having worked in a food factory, if you care about hygiene I'd go for the home-made one every time...

I had never heard of this weirdness! Of course make the homemade cake - take a wagon wheel in for the sourpuss.

OP don't pander to the kind of monstrous snowflake twat who is fussy about your homemade cake. Fuck 'em they can go without!

Bake a cake OP.
My friend makes fabulous tasty cakes. Not fancy pants icing just yummy mouthwatering cakes.
She was also on the PTA.
When they had a cake sale, all hers went first because the children had told their parents that A's cakes were legendary.
She was mortified.
Personally, I prefer most homemade baking to bland shop bought cakes any day.
Mince pie season coming up and I can't wait.

And yes, reallyorange, I'm not sure what makes people think that factory-made stuff is so hygienic!

Warning contains swearing but is the best workplace birthday cake scene ever

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cASKWJou-VE

Let's be honest you take in cake or treats to work as well do you really want to break bread with every single person that gets your cake. I was exceptionally lucky in my career I got on with and worked with exceptionally lovely people except two over a thirty years career. They would have got the cake in the clip.