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?

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.

No you don't. You assume they will have been, but you don't know they have been.

I have a cat, it is never in the kitchen when I am cooking. It isn't allowed on the worktops (and if it does sneak up, the worktop is washed thoroughly), and I never touch any food, cutlery, plates etc after unless I have washed my hands. That was drummed into me by about the age of 5...

You're perfectly entitled to not eat someone's cake, that's your choice. But saying that anyone who has cats has poor hygiene is just nonsense. Some do, of course, but the vast majority of people understand hygiene and use common sense.

Gawd that's unappetising - and i'll eat most bake sale stuff

Just as well no one knows what goes on behind the scenes in a restaurant or factory. Kids’ fingers would be the least of your worries, then.

I used to buy from work bake sales until I saw one of the main contributors come out of a cubicle and leave the ladies' without washing her hands.

Perhaps she just went in there to pull her tights up and didn’t actually use the loo?

Well that food all looks awful. At my last place of work we had fabulous bake sales and made a small fortune for our charity. We were all good bakers though and our cakes were yummy in the extreme. 🍰🧁🥮🍩

Tbf to OP, I wouldnt want anything on offer, based on that pic.

We have a coffee morning at work. The cakes were homemade and absolutely divine.

I have cats they don't get involved with baking and they never go on the work surfaces which are cleaned before and during any baking. They do however love cake, and butter icing!

Where I used to live the children of the road used to do bake sales for charity. They would set up a stall in a front garden and there were queues for their cakes and biscuits. They were delicious, I couldn’t care less if less than clean fingers touched them. I moved house and I bloody miss those bake sales.

I love a bake sale, mainly because I love baking. In fact, I've got a lemon drizzle cake cooling in the kitchen as I type this-not for a bake sale but just because my work colleagues requested it!

At out school we can take £400 in less than half an hour. No outlay and few volunteers.

Admittedly OP's looks like a rubbish one!

Bake sales are a cheap and cheerful way to engage people in fundraising. I donate to the school's ones and keep my donations simple. Getting extravagant with fancy decorations is where the costs go out of control compared to the asking prices which haven't kept up well with inflation (especially for butter).

I home in on the homemade cakes. The chances of getting ill from a cake are pretty low. I hate it when you pick something masquerading as homemade and it turns out to be a bland, grasy palm oil and soya "cake" from the shops.

I'd rather a cake sale than something like a tombola where you can win regifted tat. Yey.

Looks like I need a new job

Where do you lot all work?

Can I work here? :

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.

Oh, I've just seen OP's picture. That's the saddest bake sale I've ever seen.

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Yesterday 19:33 notso

Are you sure your not at a bird table by mistake?

Managed - you ask why do people bother with bake sales? Well we bother with cake making roughly once a month and we raise a significant sum of money for our local Hospice - that's why we bother.

managedmis Academic library. Library people will pay any money for baked goods

Oh and while I'm here...LOTTIE LION IS NOT A LIBRARIAN! Phew..

Charity bake sales are very popular where I work. The homemade cakes sell better than the shop-bought ones.

As a teenager, I temped in a food factory. My colleagues and I were basically a random collection of agency bods gathered up off the street and herded into a minibus. If you think everyone adhered to the food hygiene regulations, you would be wrong. Although to be fair, the worst I saw was pieces of raw meat being picked up off the floor and chucked back into the kebab machine.

My sister used to be a supervisor in an entertainment venue selling food. She told me that she’d managed to get the place’s food hygiene rating upgraded to five stars, but that she “wouldn’t want to eat anything that came out of that kitchen”.

I suppose you can either take your chances, especially with food that’s been thoroughly cooked, or make all your own food yourself, preferably from your own organic, homegrown ingredients.

If you really want to make money, sell $3 sausage rolls. That’s where the markups are. Just sayin’.

Are those Scotch eggs on the bird table?
The madeleines look like Bonne Maman ones.

isabellerossignol Wed 09-Oct-19 16:42:48
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.

No you don't. You assume they will have been, but you don't know they have been.

I have a cat, it is never in the kitchen when I am cooking. It isn't allowed on the worktops (and if it does sneak up, the worktop is washed thoroughly), and I never touch any food, cutlery, plates etc after unless I have washed my hands. That was drummed into me by about the age of 5...

You're perfectly entitled to not eat someone's cake, that's your choice. But saying that anyone who has cats has poor hygiene is just nonsense. Some do, of course, but the vast majority of people understand hygiene and use common sense.

Regardless of assumption v fact...I'm not taking the risk.

I do live a bake sale.

You work in the wrong place.

We regularly exchange cake at work. Usually just as a treat to get people through.

Only time something I've made hasn't been devoured was Nigella's dark chocolate & cream cheese brownies!!

I usually do retro- bakes - I'm having a tea loaf and coffee-walnut cake phase... much to the bemusement of my non-UK colleagues who don't understand that I'm trying to recreate my Great Aunts house circa. 1982!!

YANBU

Bake sales at my work really bring out the competitive bakers, all the people who watch GBBO and actually know how to make all the things.

People bring in fabulously decorated carrot cakes, moist red velvet cupcakes, perfect brownies, flapjack... the whole point is the makers contribute to charity by giving their time & ingredients, the buyers by paying generous prices etc. Lots of people enjoy it.