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 prefer home made cakes, Just get her Poundshop cupcakes if she would prefer.

I'm of the eww homemade variety. I wish people would eat cake and let others eat cake how they choose.
I don't make a song and dance about it in the office. There's almost always someone that notices I don't have a slice and will helpfully cut me one. It sits on my desk for a bit then disappears as soon as I get to the kitchen.

Your birthday your choice. I would (happily) try and accommodate nut allergies etc, but the 'eww' brigade, (who I only hear about on MN) can do one.

Mind you, in my office we hoover up anything, and even apply the five second rule to biscuits landing on the floor - so possibly not the best judge.

You can never guarantee any cake will suit everyone. Bought cake often contains palm oil which some people are allergic to, or they don't like chocolate, or it's not guaranteed nut free, or they are diabetic, or dieting.

Take your cake, share it with anyone who wants some. End of. (Homemade is definitely superior in my office.)

I wouldn't eat it unless I knew the person well. I have OCD (diagnosed) and just couldn't do it, although I am getting better.

However, I still think you should make a homemade cake as they are nicer - just don't say anything to the person who doesn't want any. It isn't fair on everyone else to have their issue thrust on everyone else, but equally it wouldn't be fair to comment on them not eating it as they may well feel quite self-conscious about that too (I know I always feel bad).

Yanbu

Allergies would be nice to buy something in for, ewww homemade that's their choice they can just choose not to have it

DH has a cousin who won't eat any kind of homemade food. He was brought up eating only pre-prepared shop-bought food, and the idea of eating something freshly prepared disgusts him. Apparently, he was a picky eater as a child and his parents went to great lengths to pander to it so he never learnt to eat a variety of foods and now lives on baked beans, microwave meals and shop bought cake. It's quite sad really.

YANBU

I don't understand why people object to eating a home made cake but not one cooked in god-knows what factory? It's weird. Take your cake in.

^This

Hand her a cellophane wrapped muffin and say, 'Here's one that ten anonymous factory workers have sneezed in'.

Don't provide an alternative.

Just bring the homemade cake in and let them all eat it or not. I'm sure this person won't be the only one who doesn't have a slice. Some people might be dieting or some simply won't fancy any on that day.

It's not a big deal.

Yanbu

I’d take a home made one, if this person chooses not to eat it becuase it’s home made they can go without that’s their choice.

Home made cakes taste so much better than anything shop bought

It’s your choice to bake a cake and take to work and share

It’s her choice whether she eats your offering

^^This. Bake whichever kind of cake you like and bring it in.

If the individual involved had allergies or intolerances (so might have concerns over cross contamination), then I’d get something extra that would be suitable, but not if it’s just a case of “ewww” at the thought of homemade. As pp point out, it’s impossible to guarantee that any cake, shop bought or not, will suit everyone anyway, as people have so many different preferences.

OP just carry on and take it in but please don't comment at all if someone doesn't want some for whatever reason.

Plenty will enjoy it I'm sure, and I do understand why some wouldn't.

I would bite your hand off for a slice of home made cake. I think you should take it.

However I think some have been very mean referring to people who don't eat stuff that others have home made as "weird". Either they have hygiene/germ anxiety (fair enough given the amount of scare stories that appear in the media) or they have seen first hand someone living in squalor (animal faeces in house, not washing hands after preparing raw meat, litter piling up, rotting food not washed up on plates/surfaces) who prepares food in those conditions but looks normal to the outside world. Thousands of people live like this and often those who you would least expect live like this. People who look clean and tidy and are nice and hold down a job.

I'm an emetophobe. I refuse to eat anything I haven't prepared myself this time of year. Because the days of worry about being sick is not worth the couple of minutes of homemade cake.

Even I say yanbu. Have the cake :) people can opt out if they don't want too.

FluffyNinja "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."

What a strange thing to be mortified about.

Gosh I had no idea there were people who wouldn't eat a homemade cake but would have something from fuck knows what factory. Only eating food you've made yourself, fair enough that makes sense. But thinking Mr Kiplings are automatically going to be more hygienic than home baked, not so much.

My dh doesn’t eat homemade stuff or buffets etc and I can see his reasoning to be honest. I just try not to think about it and eat it anyway lol.

Disclaimer, he will eat homemade stuff made in OUR home but tbh were defo not 5star hygiene quality in here lol.

VladmirsPoutine "I'm of the eww homemade variety."

Why?

There's a thread on here somewhere from a few days ago about this. A whole lot of people never eat homemade cake.

I was at a christmas fair yesterday. I overheard a stall holder at the cake section tell another that she loves baking scones because " it leaves my fingernails lovely and clean".......

I can't see bugs and germs surviving the baking process TBH. Of course the other irony that makes refusal to eat home made cake so illogical is that in most cases the ingredients will be much better quality than those used in factories. I'm sure I've read that the eggs in particular are the lowest grade and often too old to be sold to the public.

Oh, yeah, loads don't eat homemade food, cannot bear to hear anyone eat, think anyone who carries a hot drink on a train is a cunt, etc etc

But thinking Mr Kiplings are automatically going to be more hygienic than home baked, not so much.

Also, wanting to eat nasty, low quality, mass produced crap like this - I can't get my head around it.

Lol...shes not seen what happens in factories then. Take it in her loss...homemade taste better than shop bought