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To make covid fudge

234 replies

Decorbreadthegingerate · 19/12/2021 12:21

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?

OP posts:
Katyppp · 19/12/2021 14:23

@icedcoffees, you seem to be assuming I make homemade food gifts. I don't and never have, mainly because I think people have enough food of their own in over Christmas and they probably don't want any more.
I am laughing at the assumption that the food industry is universally more hygienic than most people's kitchens.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 19/12/2021 14:25

I wouldn’t and I’m not normally picky. DH will only eat shop bought baked goods, it freaks him out to be expected to eat homemade goods or buffet food, he would run a mile.

bookworm14 · 19/12/2021 14:25

MN at its batshit best. I don’t know a single person in real life who would refuse to eat homemade food.

icedcoffees · 19/12/2021 14:26

[quote Katyppp]@icedcoffees, you seem to be assuming I make homemade food gifts. I don't and never have, mainly because I think people have enough food of their own in over Christmas and they probably don't want any more.
I am laughing at the assumption that the food industry is universally more hygienic than most people's kitchens.[/quote]
No, it wasn't aimed at you! Sorry if it came across that way :)

It was more of a general comment. I mean, I quite like baking but I'd never assume that anyone else wanted any of it, ha.

I am laughing at the assumption that the food industry is universally more hygienic than most people's kitchens.

Hmm, I don't think it is either, but you can mitigate the risks by only eating at places with 5* hygiene ratings, for example, and if you do get sick, you just don't go back again - whereas it's a bit awkward if a friend lovingly makes you a cake that gives you the shits for a week Grin

Chely · 19/12/2021 14:29

Come on, the factories allow a percentage of contamination in their food products (small but still there). Enjoy your bugs in flour etc

Frankii · 19/12/2021 14:30

@bookworm14

MN at its batshit best. I don’t know a single person in real life who would refuse to eat homemade food.
I mean, you wouldn't know. I don't tell people!
NameChangeCity123 · 19/12/2021 14:30

Surely not?

FluffyBooBoo · 19/12/2021 14:30

@bookworm14

MN at its batshit best. I don’t know a single person in real life who would refuse to eat homemade food.
You don't know anyone that would refuse to eat food made by someone that has a highly contagious illness?

Have you asked everyone you know?

icedcoffees · 19/12/2021 14:32

@bookworm14

MN at its batshit best. I don’t know a single person in real life who would refuse to eat homemade food.
Even when it's been handled and sneezed and coughed on by a 6yo child with COVID?
bookworm14 · 19/12/2021 14:33

Yes, I would eat fudge made by a child with covid. I am triple jabbed and have had covid already. The chances of catching covid from fudge are minuscule, I imagine.

RockingMyFiftiesNot · 19/12/2021 14:35

I have always eaten homemade gifts. Wouldn't you go to dinner at those friends' houses? Or do you do a kitchen inspection before you accept an invitation?
I've seen no evidence of COVID being passed on through food. The risk of getting it from packaging is low and almost certainly lower than anything you'd pick up from the supermarket. If the packaging worries you, decant it into your own container and give your hands a good wash/sanitise.
I'm cautious about Covid, absolutely, but some people are frightened unnecessarily about picking it up in ways it can't be transmitted.

rwalker · 19/12/2021 14:35

compromise make it and eat it yourself

ParkheadParadise · 19/12/2021 14:37

Aye, I would eat it.
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Rosemaryandlemon · 19/12/2021 14:40

I would. Wear a mask and wash your hands if it makes you feel better. Everything is cooked to high temps. If anyone is worried they can leave if for a few days (I wouldn’t). Omicron is more transmissible, but I don’t think there has been a case of transmission from food to human (outside of course that whole maybe someone ate a bat….), but definitely no fudge to human transmission.

OnlyTheTitosaurusOfTheIceberg · 19/12/2021 14:40

So two completely different people have supposedly said, within earshot of two completely different MNers “I love baking scones because it gets my nails clean”?

What an amazing coincidence! Does either of them have a daughter called La-a?

FluffyBooBoo · 19/12/2021 14:42

The risk of getting it from packaging is low and almost certainly lower than anything you'd pick up from the supermarket

I'm curious about the logic here. The chance of getting it from something made by and handled by someone that definitely has COVID is less than the risk of getting it from something that may or may not have been handled by someone with COVID?

some people are frightened unnecessarily about picking it up in ways it can't be transmitted

I'm not frightened. I still go to the cinema, and I was at the theatre this week. But I wouldn't have gone if I knew with certainty that I would be sitting with someone with COVID.

SnoopyLights · 19/12/2021 14:42

I do eat homemade food but I can't say I would want to eat Covid fudge.

Make it anyway and you can all enjoy it yourselves, or stick to non-edible crafts.

I hope she's feeling better soon. We also have an isolating child in the house, but he's closer to teenage and well equipped to spend 10 days locked up doing online gaming. It must be a lot more difficult with a younger one who wants entertaining.

Katyppp · 19/12/2021 14:43

You beat me to it @OnlyTheTitosaurusOfTheIceberg

FluffyBooBoo · 19/12/2021 14:43

@bookworm14

Yes, I would eat fudge made by a child with covid. I am triple jabbed and have had covid already. The chances of catching covid from fudge are minuscule, I imagine.
But would everyone you know eat fudge made by a child with COVID?
icedcoffees · 19/12/2021 14:44

@Rosemaryandlemon

I would. Wear a mask and wash your hands if it makes you feel better. Everything is cooked to high temps. If anyone is worried they can leave if for a few days (I wouldn’t). Omicron is more transmissible, but I don’t think there has been a case of transmission from food to human (outside of course that whole maybe someone ate a bat….), but definitely no fudge to human transmission.
It's not the temperatures that would worry me, it's the idea of eating food prepared and handled by someone who as an easily-transmittable illness that generally has cold-like symptoms.

I wouldn't want to eat food prepared and handled by anyone who had any other kind of bug either - I really don't think that's particularly odd!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 19/12/2021 14:47

@IAmMeThisIsI

It's fudge. Consider it eaten as far as I'm concerned.
I could not put it better than this.
HesterShaw1 · 19/12/2021 14:47

People talk about a contagious illness (Covid) as though that makes it more rational.

An airborne respiratory illness.

Whinge · 19/12/2021 14:48

I wouldn't want to eat food prepared and handled by anyone who had any other kind of bug either - I really don't think that's particularly odd!

Agreed. I don't think it matters what illness you have, I wouldn't want to eat food prepared by someone who was unwell.

DeepaBeesKit · 19/12/2021 14:49

I don't tend to socialise in that way, so, no. I don't remember the last time I ate anything at anyone else's house, actually. I was probably in my teens, to be quite honest with you.We tend to go out for meals or if we do meet up at home, we'll get a takeaway instead

Whatever you do don't go look at the hygiene in your local takeaway if you think it's going to be miles better than most family homes.

DeepaBeesKit · 19/12/2021 14:52

People talk about a contagious illness (Covid)

Is Covid actually contagious, though? I thought the evidence for contagion spread ended being minimal and the main form of spread was through aerosol inhalation via coughing, singing, prolonged contact with direct breathing etc