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Original poster

To serve a cake when I've scraped the mixture off the floor

105 replies

greatpotential · 15/10/2018 14:49

So baby was screaming and I'm pretty tired, and I dropped the tin on the kitchen floor just before it went in the oven. Just spooned it back in and stuck it in the oven... I mopped last night and the cake will bake at 160 c for 50 mins. AIBU to serve to my guests due in 30 mins?

OP posts:
ProfessorMoody · 15/10/2018 16:58

Tell them, OP. Give them the choice.

I'd totally eat the cake still, the oven will kill anything, but not telling them isn't nice.

SpoonBlender · 15/10/2018 17:00

I've never had to make that decision - I generally break things too much to repair the damage! - but I'd be fine with eating cake mix scraped up off my floor. I wouldn't scrape very hard, mind.

bloodylovethemoomins · 15/10/2018 17:01

That is rank.

My floor is clean I just mopped it but then a clean floor is worse because who would want a cake with flash in it?

Original poster
greatpotential · 15/10/2018 17:21

So I chickened and didn't serve. Stale hobnobs and tea all round.

Wasn't brazen enough not to tell and felt like serving and telling is tough for them. Hard for them to say no, without worrying it sounds like they're insulting my cleaning?

Have just had a slice and it is DELICIOUS. Full of nuts so no idea if it has some extra bits in it Wink

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ShadyLady53 · 15/10/2018 17:26

Glad you made that decision.

This is the reason I decline home baked goods.

AviatorShades · 15/10/2018 17:28

Stale hobnobs - shame on you OPShock
Freshly baked nutty cake, with or without bits? yayy! Want someSmile

Original poster
greatpotential · 15/10/2018 17:36

@aviatorshades there's loads left for you. Will put the kettle on

OP posts:
RoboticMary · 15/10/2018 17:39

What an awful thing to do to your guests! That really is disgusting. Put it in the bin where it belongs.

VeryQuaintIrene · 15/10/2018 17:39

I'd much rather have nice cake than stale hobnobs and would totally both have served the cake and eaten it.

SoupDragon · 15/10/2018 17:56

I'd rather have stale hobnobs than fluff cake.

Itchytights · 15/10/2018 18:03

That's vile.

And dirty.

Put it in the bin.

KittensAndCake · 15/10/2018 18:08

Just a normal Christmas at ours, really!
Grin
And I bet you and your ds are hardly ever Ill.
I'm in OP, save me some, cake is cake Grin

theveryhighlife · 15/10/2018 18:19

Please don't serve this. It's gross!

BabySharkAteMyHamster · 15/10/2018 18:23

God I would.

It would take more than plopping on a tile to come between me and cake 🤷‍♀️

Cooroo · 15/10/2018 18:29

I wonder if this is an age thing? I'm 59 and would be happy to eat your cake. Also it has never occurred to me to wonder about work cakes, I just wolf it down.

HattieBugatti · 15/10/2018 18:52

Nope, not an age thing @Cooroo. I am mid 50's and not so fussed about most stuff. I have dropped a crisp on the floor before now and scooped it up - for me only and I wouldn't serve it to anyone else.... (5 second rule la la la ... Grin )

But the idea of SCRAPING the cake mixture off the floor (and then making a cake and serving it) is quite vile. No way! Shock

I mean, it's unlikely to kill anyone, but then neither would popping a couple of bogies in that you rawked out of your nose.

To the people who think it was OK - what the OP was considering ....

Would you wanna eat a sandwich with someone's bogies spread into the butter?

No? Why not?

Coz it's foul and gross. And so is eating anything that has been SCRAPED up off the kitchen floor. No, just no!

JosellaPlayton · 15/10/2018 18:57

Cooroo My mother, aged 57, is one of those won’t ever touch a homemade cake types. She pretends she’s dieting but will happily scoff if it comes out of an M&S box so I don’t think she’s fooling anyone. My grandmother who remembers rationing during her childhood would eat every last scrap though, she can’t waste anything!

adaline · 15/10/2018 19:14

I don't think restaurants have dogs running about or people walking round with their athletes foot or veruccas on the floor

Maybe not, but they'll have people wearing outdoor shoes walking around, and if you saw the state of some supermarket kitchens you'd never buy a rotisserie chicken - broken sanitisers, no/little hot water sometimes, nobody to check things were clean or anything. Pretty fucking grim, really.

adaline · 15/10/2018 19:23

Would you wanna eat a sandwich with someone's bogies spread into the butter?

Surely the difference there is that one is cooked, the other isn't?

I mean, nobody wants to think about eating other people's bogeys or hair or dust off the floor but so you really think factory/supermarket/warehouse/kitchen floors are spotless and that workers have impeccable hygiene at all times?

Because as someone who's worked in a supermarket I can assure you they don't!

Lweji · 15/10/2018 19:29

I'd be more worried if you had dropped the cake after baking. Even so...

RumbleMum · 15/10/2018 19:56

I'd have happily eaten it OP, though I'll reluctantly say you probably made the right decision. I realise I'm in a minority but I just don't get the hysteria about stuff like this, though tbf I used to be an archaeologist, and once you've seen another archaeologist make you a cuppa on-site you're pretty much immune to anything.

And yes, @Lweji, I was thinking of eggs too - when you've picked up a damp, glistening just-laid egg you do wonder whether people have got their priorities right. I don't wash our eggs but the deposits from our chickens' bumholes would give me more pause for thought than the OP's floor.

QueSera · 15/10/2018 20:12

I can't believe you're asking this. Please do not serve that cake.
Buy a cake, or ask someone to bring a cake, or accept that there will be no cake. Eat it yourself if you'd like - but please don't put other people's health at risk.

QueSera · 15/10/2018 20:16

Sorry - my message uploaded ages after I typed it - I see that a decision was made

Ontheboardwalk · 15/10/2018 20:18

Glad you didn’t serve it, wouldn’t have been fair on your guests.

Bonus is more cake for you 🍰 🎂 🍰

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 15/10/2018 20:32

I reckon if nobody saw it fall.......................
😉

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