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

[Slartybartfast]

for reasons I cannot fathom

Take your cake in and offer it to everyone who wants some - you don;t have to cater for people who don;t want to eat your cake - it's your birthday not theirs !

I go to an evening class one night a week and someone always brings homemade cake in (no occasion we are just greedy) and none of us has died of germs yet.

On the other hand a while ago I ordered a baguette in one of those places where you select from tubs of fillings. The woman serving started making my roll wearing the same gloves she just used to handle prawns for the previous customer - luckily I saw her and made her start again - Im very allergic to shellfish, that's cross contamination and it happens all the time in supposedly hygeine inspected kitchens.
You only need to watch professional master chef to see how many of the chefs are utterly clueless about basic hygeine and they are working in restaurants.

I'll take my friends home made over that any time.

Perfectly reasonable for you to take cake in, perfectly reasonable for them to decline a slice.

Allergens/cross contamination etc is besides the point imo. They can just not partake. It’s not unreasonable.
It’s more unreasonable to withhold your lovely cake from those who will eat it!

I didn't realise this was a thing? Has anyone ever got food poisoning from a cake?? I can understand about allergies etc, but would assume cooking a cake at 200c would kill off the bugs. I guess the icing could be dodgy at a push.

Dam straight. TBH if for whatever reason I didn't eat homemade cake I would begrudge the rest of the office enjoying some or feel left out.

I only eat home-made. Supermarket cakes are always full of crap and have been on the shelves for months before they get eaten.

Never heard of anyone getting ill from cake- the baking kills any bugs.

I have turned down 3 slices of cake today (various people leaving and one birthday). I didn't give an explanation I just said no thanks - and no one cared. I have my reasons (I don't eat refined sugar) but I would never expect anyone to cater for that choice and I don't make a big deal of explaining my choice - honestly I'd sound like a knob. It's your birthday take whatever cake you like in

It’s for your own birthday. If people don’t want to eat it then fine, more for you. In my opinion YANBU to do this. If it was for someone else’s birthday and you were making it for one of the people that don’t eat homemade then you would be.

I am a good cook, but never bring home made food to anything except for close friends or family. I don't want to waste time on people who wouldn't care and if anyone got sick, they would blame me. Why bother?

Sometimes it is soap that makes people sick. Dish washing liquid can be a nightmare if gets into cake or on utensils. That does not bake away.

I’m one of those so called ‘dicks’ im afraid. I really have strong anxiety over food. Been told it’s a type of eating disorder. Sorry about everything I eat. So in an office type environment, I guess you would all say that I was a dick. However, never have I told anyone other than very very close friends..instead I would politely say no thank you, I’m not a big cake eater myself.
In answer to the question..and knowing my dickness...ironically i think you should take your choice of homemade cake, share it with willing colleagues and have a wonderful birthday 🍰

Should read WORRY about everything I eat, not SORRY about everything

Bloody ridiculous. I hate anything with dried fruit in it. When I used to work in a crèche parents brought us loads of mince pies, Christmas cakes slices etc at Christmas. Did I complain? no I thanked them dearly as it was a lovely thought and the rest of the staff enjoyed them ; and I went without and did not care one jot.

I love 'homemade is better'. What? All of it? In reality, some people are crap at baking. My boss thinks she's GBBO material because people are too polite to go 'this is dry as the Sahara and I think the 9000 Oreos you used were about 8990 too many' when presented with one of her sickly, overcooked creations. If I sling one of Mr Kipling's cakes in the bin, nobody cares. If I get caught hiding and binning cake somebody I work with has made, they're going to get offended. I'd rather opt out.

Some people are their own worst enemies. That's their problem.

Homemade is better they haven't tried my Victoria sponge

You know I’ve never understood this thing of having to get a cake for YOUR OWN birthday and take it into work for everyone. To me, if it’s your birthday people should be buying bloody cake for you, not the other way round?!

Anyhoo, to the point in question. In my eyes, you are being nice by taking the time to bake a cake to share with your work colleagues to celebrate your birthday. They have a choice - have some or don’t have some. If they had allergies then yes it’s always nice to consider that one person.
But if they’re just being a bit funny about the possibility of germs etc, then I wouldn’t change what you’re doing just for them.

Ffs. Take what you like or nothing at all. Ok if someone has an allergy issue it might be nice to offer an altenative but if they just don't like it, thats not really your responsibility. They can choose not to have it. It's surely just supposed to be a nice gesture?!

Home made is so much nicer. Just take it a the fussy one will just have to put up with it.

But the one that really got me was the Harrods gammon , posters friend admitted to fucking the defrosting meat and then it being served in the counter with his semen still in the middle

A little bit of sick just came up in my mouth 🤢🤢

Reminds me of that film, Van Wilder where they jack the dog off into the cream cake buns and leave them in a basket outside the frat house of the bloke they hate 🤢🤮

Because everything is so clean in a factory, whether that's where the cake is made or the box it came in. Can't beat a home made cake, if they don't want to eat it they haven't got to, it's your birthday have what you like

My colleague wouldn't eat my homemade because I use eggs our chickens lay. You know, the ones fresh from the hen, not the ones being processed for a week before being boxed and put on the shelf

I can’t eat home made food either and I can’t explain why. I never used to be like this, it’s developed as I got older and it’s not about people being dirty or having dirty homes. If I could explain it I would but I just cannot eat people’s home made food that they’ve bought into work,

I can however, go to a friends house and eat a meal made for me there. That’s why it makes no bloody sense!

I worked in a brandy snap basket factory when I was a student. The girl who worked opposite me used to pick her feet in between handling the brandy snap (we all had to wear sweaty white wellies). I have never eaten brandy snap since.

Oh, and the same products went into Asda boxes and M&S boxes, priced at opposite ends of the spectrum. That was an eye opener.

Thewickerwoman- that makes utter sense to me!! Really truely