To think that, unless you know the kitchen they were made in is very clean, homemade edible gifts go straight in the bin

[Bearbehind]

Especially this year

Given we’re sanitising things we touch and are ultra conscious about the spread of germs etc - AIBU to think that if you get edible gifts from someone’s who’s kitchen you either don’t know or don’t think is very clean - you’d just bin it?

I’m not saying you can catch Covid from the food but it’s the principle of not knowing how hygenic stuff is

I’m not a fan of homemade gifts at the best of times - I think a sort of rule should be that unless your homemade items are good enough to sell for actual money, then please don’t do it

No one is going to admit they binned it but I do hope those who would make homemade edible gifts, especially for teachers, this year think twice

Are filthy people with unhygienic kitchens likely to go to the trouble of making something homemade from scratch?

Has anybody on here ever actually been I'll from someone's homemade brownie/cookie/jam/fudge

I’ve been ill once. I was 18. It was flu.

I rarely eat anything homemade by other people. They could have sneezed over it or stuck their finger up their bum and then stirred the cake with it. Yuk. No thanks

My old neighbour was a well known local baker, gave donations to school, playgroup that sort of thing. Her house was disgusting, I'm not fussy and 4 kids plus 2 dogs and cats would have driven me mad if I was but her house was seriously disgusting. One summer the lady who dog sat for us was asked to feed her animals when she was on holiday, she hated the house so much she knocked on the door and asked me to go in with her on day one, I asked what was wrong and she said the smell made her vomit and she'd had to run out. It really was that bad.

Her cakes were reckoned to be delicious but I never tried one.

only in absolute emergencies and I make sure I hover

Oh great you know people who hover are the only ones making sure piss gets all over the seat for the next person.

If no one hovered loo seats would be clean.

Or kissed anyone?

DBML

Well, at least you’re consistent! Sorry you struggle.

They could have sneezed over it or stuck their finger up their bum and then stirred the cake with it.

Niche.

@FreezerBird

The home-made stuff I give people generally has a high enough alcohol content to be safe I reckon.

I'll pm you my address 😀

I assume you don't eat take aways or at restaurants either.

You have to admit that other people's homemade chocolate truffles are usually dire!

I feel the same as you OP.
Someone gives me fudge every year, made by them & DC. I've never tried it - mostly because I don't like sweet things like fudge but also because I don't trust it to have been prepared in a thoroughly clean environment, with no fingers being dipped in the mixture etc.

Most people don’t live in squalor so no Unfortunately some people do.

I don't trust it to have been prepared in a thoroughly clean environment, with no fingers being dipped in the mixture etc.

How dirty do you think people’s fingers are? And why would buy something from a shop with more confidence that this hasn’t happened?

@Muchadoaboutlife

I rarely eat anything homemade by other people. They could have sneezed over it or stuck their finger up their bum and then stirred the cake with it. Yuk. No thanks

Oh yes that's the sort of thing people do all the time

@DBML

Have they never had an ice-cream from a van or had a one night stand or used a public toilet?

Ice cream van - no
One night stand - no
Public toilet - only in absolute emergencies and I make sure I hover. I will hold all day long rather than use the toilets in work (school).

Wow! In the nicest way (because I have been there) do you think possibly you might have some anxiety? I don't think avoiding all those things is good for you.

I'd eat owt home baked if I generally trusted the person. And then again I've bought from bake sales and I know nothing about those people so perhaps I am more lax than I think.

I bake a lot and take It to work and nobody has declined yet so... I am v clean though but I suppose colleagues don't know that!

@OverTheRainbow88

Might be lol!
I was like it as a toddler apparently. My parents are not like it, but I wouldn’t eat my food if anyone leant over it or breathed towards it lol! I grew up with severe OCD, largely manifesting as food anxiety.

Nah I'll eat anything to be honest!

Eh? I’m pretty confident that your view isn’t that common, OP. I make acceptable biscuits and they evaporate at work (back in the day when the office was open). Really good ones that some colleagues make less to a scrum.

This is one of those peculiar MN only things. There's been many threads over the years where most people agree with the OP.

I don't. The only thing I haven't eaten that was home made was shortbread made by my toddlers, in my presence - they were clean but not enough!

I'd get help for your anxiety if I were you OP.

@MrsSpringfield

I feel the same as you OP. Someone gives me fudge every year, made by them & DC. I've never tried it - mostly because I don't like sweet things like fudge but also because I don't trust it to have been prepared in a thoroughly clean environment, with no fingers being dipped in the mixture etc.

To make fudge, the mix is heating to massively high temperatures. I'd have no issue with fudge.

@DBML

It’s hard isn’t it!

10 years later I’ve finally made all the teachers aware in our office at lunch time that they can’t stick their hands in my food and grab a chip or whatever it is they want off my plate!

I had a drink spiked when I was 18 in a bar and it’s been hard ever since with drinks and food that I don’t see being made!

[quote DBML]@OverTheRainbow88

Might be lol!
I was like it as a toddler apparently. My parents are not like it, but I wouldn’t eat my food if anyone leant over it or breathed towards it lol! I grew up with severe OCD, largely manifesting as food anxiety.[/quote]
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no im not rude!