To make covid fudge

[Decorbreadthegingerate]

DD, 6, halfway through covid isolation and climbing the walls with boredom. We thought about making fudge today to gift to family members when isolation ends on Xmas eve. Would you eat the covid fudge?

Sorry I would never eat food made by a child, covid or no covid. I volunteer with brownies and used to be a teacher. I have seen enough to put me off! 😆

Yeah I’d scoff it

Make it for yourselves but don’t give it to people

I also think food made by a child isn’t a good gift at any time - they really don’t have clean enough hands even when they’ve been washed as the nails are an issue - or they don’t stay clean!

@Bubblty

I'd isolate the fudge for 10 days before giving it to them and no touching or coughing on it

I'd struggle to store the fudge for ten minutes, let alone ten days. I still retain the gannet tendencies I had as a teen.

I don't mind home made food, if its well presented. I would assume the attention to detail, would translate to good hygiene and the visa versa.
Perhaps drop covid from the description and you'd get more takers.

I’ve eaten ‘covid cake’ in similar circumstances and it was delicious.

Yeah I'd eat it. Covid isn't going to survive in fudge. It doesn't surprise me that, in my experience, the people who throw homemade stuff away and have immaculate kitchens are the ones who are always ill. Your immune system needs a boost every now and again.

Also in the "no trouble eating it" camp.
Mind you, I'm also a Scout leader and have no trouble eating anything they make either.
You've got to eat a peck before you die, no?

@Wavypurple

I think it’s a really nice and kind idea but personally I never eat and don’t know many people that do eat handmade gifted food, it ends up in the bin. Probably most cost effective to make something else that the two of you could eat together like cupcakes

To be honest I wouldn't want to eat fudge that someone with covid had made. However who are these people that ordinarily chuck homemade food in the bin. How odd and how rude?

PS am also happy to share ice creams with children and cats, and happily eat toast that falls butter side down because thirty second rule.

Home made food from an unwell six year old is ...er, well, it's not at the top of my christmas list, certainly.

Fudge isn't food though. It's sugar. Biscuits and jam, likewise, none of it has nutritional value.

Now if someone was hurling a bunch of fresh veg away because another person had touched them, I'd be with you in the outrage.

Christ no! Lovely idea but eat it yourselves or leave it out for the elves or something. I don't eat anything that isn't prepared at home. Seeing people order these munchie boxes and afternoon teas off Facebook give me the creeps too. We have takeaway food but we decant it and blast it in the microwave to get rid of any germs. Definitely wouldn't eat something that someone with Covid had made. I haven't shielded for the best part of two years to catch Covid from something I'm going to eat when I've missed parties, weddings, funerals, concerts etc etc etc.

No, but as I don't like fudge, that's not necessarily a helpful answer

[quote U8976532]@Frankii I think it's pretty disgusting to gloat about throwing food away in a country where we have food banks and a world where people die of hunger. How completely ignorant someone must be to so lightheartedly dismiss food like that, I'm embarrassed for them. No one is going to die or even get sick from homemade fudge, biscuits, jam etc. It's pathetic to think otherwise.[/quote]
Nah, it's not disgusting or ignorant. It's personal choice.

Jane at no.3 refusing to eat someone's homemade jam isn't going to stop other people needing to use food banks. Using food banks to try and shame people into eating things they don't want to is pretty poor behaviour IMO, and it won't actually change anyone's mind.

Yes, of course.

I am with @EssexLioness on this ! Also reminds me of a friend who belonged to a church where one of the congregation provided home baked scones to other church members. She cheerfully announced to my friend one day ‘oh I love making scones it always leaves my fingernails so lovely and clean afterwards’ 😱

I'm with @icedcoffees - and food banks won't take homemade goods for similar hygiene reasons, too!

Indeed @icedcoffees. Reminds me of the "clear your plate, there are children starving in Africa" refrain (because it helps them, how?)

Would you eat food made by someone with norovirus? I wouldn’t so I wouldn’t from someone with covid either.

You can freeze un-iced cupcakes and muffins. Make some but freeze the excess for your household to eat another day

I had the worst norovirus bout of my life after eating cake made by a friend who (unknowingly) had noro. She's super hygienic as well so she would have followed all the food hygiene rules. Took me 3 weeks to recover!

@Wavypurple

I think it’s a really nice and kind idea but personally I never eat and don’t know many people that do eat handmade gifted food, it ends up in the bin. Probably most cost effective to make something else that the two of you could eat together like cupcakes

Outisde of Covid times it's only on MN that I've ever heard people say they wouldn't eat hand made gifted foo.

I think it’s a really nice and kind idea but personally I never eat and don’t know many people that do eat handmade gifted food, it ends up in the bin.

😂 Love the bonkers sweeping “everyone does what I do because I’m right” statements on MN. Reminds me of the MN post a while back stating that “everyone wipes their arse with wet toilet tissue” . When are these secret surveys happening to get “everyone’s” view on these things?! 😂