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To eat the cake??

70 replies

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 09/04/2019 03:32

Me, ds (16) and sister were in a lovely restaurant/bar on Saturday. Lovely weekend in London together. We'd eaten our meal and I looked over and noticed that the people sitting on nearby table had gone. It (I assume) was someone's birthday as they'd sung Happy Birthday (well I assume they did, the band playing at the time were a bit loud!) and they'd had a cake. Well. There was some slices of cake left. On the plate with the knife that had cut the cake. ie not 'someone's plate' and I said I'm having some of that. Sister and Ds were absolutely appalled at the idea. But I went and got a little slice. It was lovely. Just a little supermarket cake but still very tasty!! They could not believe it. And it is still being mentioned!! Their problems were someone might have seen - it was quite quiet by then. I said 'you didn't see that!’ to next table - they weren't phased don't think they saw me till I spoke. Secondly that I took it off someone else's table. My view was they cut the cake. Left on the cutting up plate or like a platter. Similar to if it was in a buffet. No problem at all. But they would not see it!!

I said. Well I'm going to ask Mumsnet then - but only just had time to post.

WIBU?? It was cake!!!!!

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Crazycat16 · 09/04/2019 17:55

I doubt it would have been wasted. Generally if people leave remaining cake they have already told the waiting staff to take it to the kitchen for the staff to share.

TheDarkPassenger · 09/04/2019 18:03

I would have been quite disgusted seeing you do that. Sorry 😔 I’m not usually one for social qualms or caring too much what others do but that just seems way too gluttonous. Greed and glutton are two things that I really don’t like, although I appreciate that’s my issue and you probably don’t care what I think

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 09/04/2019 18:23

I only had the one piece. And it was small. I left some. I displayed extraordinarily rarewill power 😉

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SleepingStandingUp · 09/04/2019 21:48

Yanbu the cake had been abandoned so it’s fair game
by that logic, do you walk around the tables at restaurants to see if there's anything you fancy?

Monty27 · 10/04/2019 02:37

@Picklypickles
Unwanted cake especially cannot be wasted.
Unwanted cake indeed!
Unheard of Grin

TheGodmother · 10/04/2019 02:46

Noooooo just nooooooo! Why was just a slice or two left? You don't know! Did the old granny touch it with her pish covered hands or did snotty toddler sneeze all over it!

Pukey McPukeface

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 10/04/2019 02:53

No grannies. No snotty toddlers. A group of about 8-10 adults. Early 30sish. The cake was small. Roughly 12inch diameter.

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BabyDarlingDollfaceHoney · 10/04/2019 03:48

For me I think the point is it's very rude to the restaurant. The group with the cake were having a celebration and had probably called the restaurant to ask if they could bring their own birthday cake, which is a fairly normal thing to do. They were a big group and presumably spending on drinks and food so the restaurant are happy with that. You weren't part of their group. You were a paying customer with a separate, much smaller, group. If everyone just bought their own food in to eat then the restaurant wouldn't survive. If you wanted cake you should have ordered some from the menu. Imagine if the party had a bigger cake and everyone in the restaurant just had that instead of ordering a pudding? Don't think the restaurant would be too happy then. In terms of etiquette it's no worse than just bringing a tupperware of your own cake from home... Which would not be on. Also the cake was left on another table in someone's restaurant, so it's up to them what happends to it. Did you pick up the tip they'd left as well as the cake? If anyone was going to get the leftover cake it should have been the staff, not you. It was a bit cheeky and entitled of you in my opinion.
All this is quite apart from the fact that it makes you look like a scavenger.

MrsPlesWearsAFez · 10/04/2019 04:01

YWBU - I agree that there is no way that cake was headed for the bin.

It would have most certainly have been nabbed by the wait/kitchen staff IME.

I hope you left a sizeable tip to compensate.

Rottencooking · 10/04/2019 04:29

Pukey McPukeface

That's precisely what I felt like doing when I read those words. Lord save us.

Butteredghost · 10/04/2019 04:57

Good on you OP. I would have really wanted to do it, but would have felt embarrassed for some reason. Actually if I was with friends I wouldn't have done it, but if just with sister or immediate family I would.

If I was with my mum, I wouldn't have had the chance because she'd have done it first!

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 10/04/2019 09:22

Good point Baby. Yes we did leave a good tip. It was automatically added. 12.5% Bill for 3 was £100. I never imagined I was taking food out of the staff's mouths though. I assumed it was destined for the bin

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BabyDarlingDollfaceHoney · 10/04/2019 09:31

Anyway I've ordered a walnut cake to come in my tesco shopping today and it's definitely because of this thread 😂

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 10/04/2019 09:41

I 💕 cake. Enjoy yours Baby 😉

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Pinotjo · 10/04/2019 15:41

It's cake, it should be a criminal offence to leave it, I would have eaten it all 😂😂

PlainSpeakingStraightTalking · 10/04/2019 15:45

All im saying is novichok - they might be Russian agents

Pfft and like that you're dust Sad

NotFatTransslender · 10/04/2019 15:50

Umm no I don’t tend to raid leftover food as I’m not a fox Grin

I have to confess to nicking some cake from abandoned afternoon tea stands in a hotel I was staying at once. I walked past the seating area where several people had just left, and noticed lots of leftover cake on top of the stands, so I just nabbed a bit as a I walked past. Blush.

I’m usually a bit of a stickler for hygiene etc and if I’d thought about it too long I probably couldn’t have eaten it, but I just wolfed it down Grin

YWNBU to eat the cake OP. I’d have joined you if I were there.

Jammydodger1981 · 10/04/2019 15:51

Dontfuckingsaycheese I’m really sorry, it was probably me and my daughter who put the unfulfilled birthday cake idea in your head as I’ve definitely posted about it on here before. She’s 18 now and still does it to me haha.

Glad you enjoyed the cake though!

42isthemeaning · 10/04/2019 17:07

If someone had blown out candles on that cake then YEUCHHHH Sad

CabbageHippy · 10/04/2019 17:11

I most certainly would not have done it but it probably would of gone in the bin - or maybe been a treat for the waiting & kitchen staff

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