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

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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

YABU.

I accept all offerings gratefully, eat them if they look good, and have also been known to swing by the Methodist Church on Friday mornings (I'm Catholic), because I know the good ladies of the church run a coffee morning with homemade cakes. You can't beat a Protestant cake.

Our school is quarantining anything that comes in for 72 hours and has a mouse problem - don’t think this is the year to send in homemade food....

Oh wow, only handmade edible thing that wld ever go into bin = young child’s school “baking”. Then again these = inedible. Everything else, great. Tho agree, now would surely not be the time to be gifting any home (in)edibles...

This post...😟. I remember people bringing food to family gatherings, work lunches and similar, as well as buying home made cakes at the village fair and school jumble. Why is everyone so paranoid now?

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

😂

I'm always thrilled to receive a homemade gift. I like stuff that can be eaten or drank and doesn't clutter my already cluttered house. I personally wouldn't give any homemade food this year, because I'd imagine people will be more squeamish than usual.

But honestly, I mostly trust that people taking the time to bake aren't actually letting snotty toddlers or shedding cats help (even if it's nominally from the snotty toddler or shedding cat).

If I found a tooth in my fudge or it was inexplicably gritty it texture, yes: I would put the rest in the bin.

I don't like homemade food gifts and I do chuck them out - pre pandemic as well as now!

No, doesn’t bother me. Can’t see how likely you are to get anything unpleasant, Covid or otherwise, from a cake or some homemade fudge or whatever. If someone gave me mussels or steak tartare for Christmas I’d be a bit but noone’s done that yet.

I’ve only had foodborne illness once - campylobacter. Caught it from a meal at a pretty high end restaurant. I suspect the chicken pate. So your faith in restaurant kitchens isn’t necessarily justified!

I don’t understand the germ phobia. My husband grew up with a clean freak mother - the kind of person who would never have accepted homemade food and antibac-ed everything obsessively - and he now has a serious auto-immune disease. No way of proving the former caused the latter, but the research suggests there’s a good chance it was at least a contributing factor.

My new neighbour knocked on our front door on Christmas Eve last year with a box of vegan mince pies.

They were delicious and we were so touched. It really made my Christmas.

So much so, that I have learned to bake to be able to reciprocate this year.

Nope. I'm not fussed . I know colleagues who throw it in the bin. Most of the time I've even eaten it in front of the kids as it makes them so happy.

But then again , I used to eat certain things off the ground as a kid.

URBTU why would you be worried about friends giving you a home made present? If you would visit them and have a coffee and a cake, or a meal, why wouldn’t you eat an edible present?
I really hope I do not know you!!!

Oh bless you OP, for thinking restaurants are any different.

@Generalconfusion

I don't like homemade food gifts and I do chuck them out - pre pandemic as well as now!

genuine question: so you never eat out and never accept an invitation ever? Not a cup of tea, not lunch, diner ever?

no way, I love homemade food.
I used to love going to the cake stall at school fetes and buying up loads of home made cakes.

Why don't you tell the people who are making these things for you that they go in the bin.

I make food for people. I would rather know it was going in the bin and never make then some thing again. It's such a waste of my time, money and kindness otherwise. I could use my time, money and kindness on someone more grateful.

I have held a lot of Bbq's in my time with friends and family and they always bring something along. A homemade salad or dessert. No one has got food poisoning yet. Also Christmas gatherings.

Have you never eaten at someone else's house or even had a coffee and cake. Do you inspect their kitchen first before accepting an invite?

Agree. There are some people I happily accept edible gifts from, but the majority will go into the bin. Mainly because most people think they can bake etc, but often just look for a cheap gift and then make something inedible (drowned in cheap margarine and sugar) or downright unsafe (foraged mushrooms or berries from people who don’t know a thing about them, stuff with raw egg in it etc).

I’m a food teacher and out of the 200+ kids I teach there’s maybe 10 who I would eat their food. I spend all day everyday asking kids to wash their hands again, the amount of times I have to send them to the sink with a nail brush is ridiculous. I always accept food gifts and tell them I really enjoyed it but very rarely eat it.

And I used to work on a food stall in a market. We didn’t have running water and used raw meat, the manager used to spray the equipment with bleach spray and dry it with blue roll - not at all clean. The manager then threw it all in his backpack to wash at home. I left because I didn’t want to be responsible for poisoning anyone. So I am now very selective about where I eat when I’m out.

Oh god, I hate to break it to you germ phobics, but you DO know what’s in commercial food don’t you? That cows’ milk has pustules of some sort (I forget the details now), that fruity juice is allowed a proportion of rotten fruit, and that chocolate has a proportion of cockroaches. All true since I’ve known people who’ve worked in food prep factories recall them telling me this. Ah, also remember a friend’s bro worked for sains years ago and told her never, ever to eat pre minced meat- something about scraping it off the floor. Oh yes, tea leaves in tea bags... floor situation too. Oh dear oh dear.

Mostly I love homemade food especially cakes. 2020 or any other year. And no, “we” are not all sanitising everything we touch.

There have been a handful of people that have provided homemade food that I have thrown out but they are a very, very small minority and I hope they never knew as they’d be horribly offended... but I’ve found dog hairs in food before etc and I just can’t..

No, don't care as long as it's decent food. If it's rubbish then I don't care how clean the kitchen is.

I make rice for three nights at a time (so only 48 hours old on the third night), leave chicken curry out to cool for hours before putting it in the fridge, and so on, and never get sick though.

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

Are we sanitising everything?

I get ya, I see my kids baking, slurp.. scratch.. pick and back in the game 😂

My kids so I'll eat them but I wouldn't be passing them round willy nilly

Haven’t read all the comments here but I actually thought edible gifts sounded nice. If I wouldn’t eat it myself , I’d bring it to work (not possible now) or share with a neighbour maybe. Don’t think you can really catch Covid off surfaces unless they’re coughing all over the fudge or whatever!!

OK, so I’m in the majority

But I have learned that it’s not just about food I’m in the majority because I’d be sending those mittens to the charity shop too

I wouldn’t bin them as I understand the time taken to make them but they are really not my taste so I wouldn’t keep them but if someone else wanted to buy them then fair enough

I am chuckling at those who are indignant that I’d bin food gifts when they’d pass them on to some other poor sod if they didn’t want them!

Nah unless you know the person is an absolute scruff judt eat it. A girl i work with makes cakes sometimes and brings them in and we all devour them.