Why do people bother with bake sales?

[managedmis]

Bake sale here today at work. By lunch time it's 2 for 1. Energy balls, rolled by people's grubby little fingers. Flaky bits of green stuff with almonds sticking out. Looks revolting. Bright orange muffins.

Why do people expect other people to buy other people's food?

That's a bit if a sad bake sale.

I love the charity bake sales our staff and students do. As for germs, I used to know somebody who worked for Mr Kipling and from what he was saying shop-bought cakes are NOT the sanitary option.

That's the worst bake sale I've ever seen 😂

That’s a shit bake sale

Any bake sale I’ve been to at work has always been great.

Ingredients are very cheap if you buy from Aldi.
Flour, 49p
sugar (half bag) about 25p
Margarine about 50p,
eggs 80p
icing sugar 45p
total: £2 for a lovely Victoria sponge.
Cut into 8 £1 a slice and you have a profit.
I always have these stuff in anyway as I love baking so I don't really consider the cost.

Just totted up again, it comes to about £2.50

Unlike on mumsnet, where people are busy rinsing their vaginas with zoflora and having meltdowns about germs, most people are happy to eat stuff colleagues have cooked.

I've even shhh bought cakes from the sixth form bake sales.

But people DO buy other people’s food? So what’s your problem? Just don’t buy the cakes

I don't buy cakes at bake sales ( I eat enough rubbish without adding more to it) you don't have to buy them either.

If you do ask people for cash, they won't bother - there's so much begging for very good causes everywhere, people raising money right left and centre that a simple money request doesn't bring anything.

The photo looks more like some tray of catered snacks from a cheap botel or uni... only the ball things look homemade even. You are not being unreasonable for not buying from that selection. But a real bake sale is lovely. Still fondly remember coffee and walnut cakes bought at church bazaars decades ago...

😂😂😂 at "are you sure you're not at a bird table instead"

We always had beautiful bake sales at my work. Lots of great bakers and even better eaters
We set everything out on cake stands and plates, napkins and paper plates provided, also plenty of savouries which were much in demand at lunch time.
Also I made a weekly tray bake ( now done on a rota) which was always snapped up and raised lots of money for charity. In fact enough to sponsor two Donkey Libraries in Africa and South America and there's now nearly enough for a proper library in Africa. We wouldn't have got these just asking for money.
We also raised hundreds for a children's ward in a local hospital and also money for a local hospice.
And guess what? Not one case of food poisoning and a lot of goodwill and morale raising.

I bake tonnes for work and have now started to be paid for supplying birthday cakes and cupcakes for colleagues children's parties

I love home made cakes, and as a keen baker like to see what other people have made .Someone has spent time and energy cooking up some cakes and treats for others to enjoy! Unless someone has dysantry what could you possibly catch thats so bad?! (Cakes are baked so killing off germs in oven!)

I love them!

Went to one at DH’s office today..... had a nice chat with his colleagues and had some delicious homemade cake. Gave £10 to McMillan, who incidentally were brilliant at supported my family when I was a child and my dm was in her final days.

I like the school cake sales. Most the cakes are shop bought and it raises money for the school.
Admittedly, yours looks a bit grim OP.

I did a macmillan cake sale and raised about £600. What i didn't sell in my house i took outside and sold to children coming home from school.
I think home made cakes are normally nicer than shop bought. My colleague and i occassionally bake cakes that everyone eats (there and then, there is no discrete wrapping in a napkin and finding a nearby bin going on) ...maybe we are all just greedy...?

They've burnt the madeleines

I hate them. The kids' school is always looking for bake sale contributions. No thanks Laura I don't really want to pay 3 euro for a bit of your slightly burned, out of a Dr Oetker box bundt cake, thanks for asking.

Now I've seen your experience in pictures, I'm not surprised you dont like bake sales! 😂
You need to find more unhealthy colleagues!

There was one in my work a few weeks ago and it raised over £1000. Some of the cakes were fantastic.

I don't understand the misery guts. If you don't want to eat any then don't eat any, it's not compulsory. But I've never heard of someone getting sick from a cake sale.

Although the OP's photo does indeed indicate a really crap bake sale.

I'd never buy cakes from a cake sale. So many people own cats and I just know they would have at some point been near the cake making process.

At school the cakes literally sell like hot cakes whenever there is one. Quick way of raising £100.