AIBU to dislike eating birthday cake?

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Something about birthday cake particularly vanilla sponge and buttercream monstrosities really makes me feel unwell. If I do ever eat it I feel queasy for a while afterwards.. I don't know if it's just me.
We went to in-laws the other day for a meal, and they offered leftover birthday cake for dessert as one of them had just celebrated their 60th. I refused politely, they asked why, I said although I didn't mind it for some reason it always makes my stomach turn. Cue shock horror from M-I-L! AIBU or do other people have the same reaction to it too?

I think she was shocked as she feels that it's polite to eat birthday cake when it's someone's birthday.. and it wasn't like she was offering me something disgusting.. so I should have accepted a small piece!

God no!. 'Birthday cake' cake is my absolute favourite thing.No cake can beat it.

Yabu

Sorry, birthday cake is my favourite food

I'm with you on this

You could've just said you didn't fancy any instead of implying her cake made you feel sick

No I don't particularly like cake especially the birthday cake varieties covered with fondant icing and / or buttercream. Far too sweet / sickly.

@Notredamn I wasn't implying it was her cake specifically! And she wasn't offended.. more shocked that someone could possibly refuse birthday cake in any setting

If it's stale sweet sponge with cheap jam and horribly sweet fondant icing, I'll have a sliver to be polite, often a piece where a child has eaten the icing off it.

A good sponge cake with tasty buttercream is food of the gods!

Home made ones are usually lovely, but I find supermarket ones far too sickly sweet.

I think YWBU to say the pudding she was offering 'turned your stomach' though - the best way to decline a pudding is to say you're full up after the delicious main course.

Fresh out the oven with cream and berries then maybe. But the last thing that plain sponge cake that's fairly sweet and bland tasting needs, is things like icing that's extra sweet and bland tasting. We always do a chocolate birthday cake with real chocolate and cocoa so its extra chocolatey and the thinnest layer of icing. I'd still rather just have a bit of chocolate though

No thanks, I'm not hungry would have been pleasanter than I don't mind it but it makes my stomach turn
How can those two things be correct anyway? It makes you ill but you don't mind it... 🤦‍♀️

Shop-bought birthday cake is disgusting. But you could have found a more polite way of refusing.

YABU. I’d happily eat birthday cake for lunch and dinner

YABU! And the type of birthday cake you have described is the best kind. YABVVVVVVVVVVU

@Pelleas

Home made ones are usually lovely, but I find supermarket ones far too sickly sweet.

I think YWBU to say the pudding she was offering 'turned your stomach' though - the best way to decline a pudding is to say you're full up after the delicious main course.

Yes this. I really hate the weird chemical taste of not-buttercream in a supermarket sponge cake. But a proper home made sponge cake is a different beast entirely

Try putting some salt on it?

The ones from shops are usually pretty horrible especially the icing but I could eat a homemade one every day

I don't like it either, I don't like jam or buttercream and don't have a sweet tooth.

I love homemade cakes🎂, but birthday cake with lots of frosting and fondant icing makes me want to puke.

Homemade Victoria sponge is lovely, shop brought not quite so much, the sponge reminds me of the foam squares that used to be inside zip up covers for sofas in the 70’s.

There is only one thing better than actual birthday cake and thats Ben & Jerrys Birthday Cake Ice Cream.
To. Die. For.

Agree with pps, "no thanks, I'm not really a fan of cake" would have sufficed.

I bloody love cake though. Only allow myself a slice if its someone's birthday.

Homemade cake - good
Mass produced supermarket 'cake' - BAD!!

totally agree...they are too sweet and also bland...don't understand the hype for them.

Politely... ‘it makes my stomach turn’

I mean, that’s not the same 😂

If cake isn’t your thing, that’s fine, just ‘I don’t fancy any’ would’ve sufficed. Alternatively, stick a shitload of salt on it and offend everyone, and cause mass hysteria.