To roll my eyes over cake drama

[VeterinaryCareAssistant]

I took some cakes into work today because I had some good news to share (new granddaughter).

They were individual cakes and there weren't enough for every single employee, so I was hoping anyone who took one would enjoy it.

Anyway, a colleague picked one up and took a bite, then immediately declared it was "too rich and filling", asked for a knife and cut it in half so thar someone else could have it.

She then watched other people eat the cakes whilst asking with faux shock "how can you manage a whole one?"

My eyes were rolled so far back I was looking behind me!

That does look nice- but also very easy to cut in half! I dont think these things are anything to do with jealousy about grandchildren, but more to do with signalling how virtuous they are, and how they eat like a bird. Its not that hard to say 'Ill have half' or 'Ill have one later' if you dont want one.

A MNetter?

this to that woman the OP mentioned

congratulations on your new grandaughter

i work in a charity shop and one of the ladies is a good baker we fight to get to her cakes no competative undereating at our place

Thank you for the congratulations comments. My new granddaughter is scrummier than the cakes!

I also didn't make the cakes. They were bought from a bakery. I wish I could bake well, but alas!

Also, to the people saying I should have brought enough for everyone, there are simply too many staff on shift at any one time, plus there are many people with different start times, so, unfortunately not everyone could have one.
Also, just the ones I bought cost me two hours wages (I'm on minimum wage).

Couldn't she eat the other half biscuit next time she wanted a homeopathic snack?

Lamington?

My parents bought lovely handmade chocolates back in the day when this was not a thing, and at a dinner party served them with coffee. They were about £1 each - extortionate at the time! One woman took half a bite (these were normal sized chocolates like you'd get in Dairy Milk Tray) and declared it 'too rich' and left most of it on the plate. I was so tempted...

@FrancisSeaton What did you eat to get overweight ?

I have no doubt you will get flamed for asking that question, because us fatties must be gorging ourselves on cake and sweets and takeaways, but for me it was far too much wine, a lot of bread ( 4 slices of toast girl ) and enormous portions of potatoe and pasta products !

There's always one person like that in my experience. It's very tiresome, and they can't seem to understand that rather than everyone else applauding them they just think they are dicks.

Why didnt she take one of the halves she touched up and left? Fucking hate people that do that.

No, it's right there in the OP that she cut it in half.

Yes she cut it but the poster isn't wrong she only cut it after taking a bite out of the cake.

I think it would be ok if she’d cut it in half first and taken half, Wouldn’t that just be the considerate thing to do if there was obviously not enough for everyone to have a whole one? I think I would have done this and I bloody love cake

the competitive under-eating commentary is v annoying though. I’m always deeply suspicious of anyone who describes things as ‘too rich for me’

It’s a thing isn’t it. Also involves commenting on how other people can manage it, being mildly disparaging of the food (too rich etc), then hanging around the source of the food to not miss a chance to tell these things to everyone. Incase someone wasn’t aware of who the person with the small appetite is (unlikely!).

Also, to add, it’s not the small appetite being the problem, but the whole performance around it. I actually suspect that the people with genuinely small appetites are just getting on with it, and that these people are probably going home and eating half the kitchen. Also, I really hate people talking about how something is too rich for them or whatever, I really don’t want to be thinking about whatever side effects are alluding to.

Congrats on your grandaughter 💕

I worked with someone who never ate anything at work. She did however comment on absolutely everything anyone else ate. She also made ridiculous yummy noises at everyone else eating. Most off putting. I saw a pic of her recently on FB and she’d obviously in the grip of anorexia. Very sad. Looking back I guess she was trying to enjoy others eating but avoiding calories herself.

@neighboursareselling

Homeopathic snack really made me laugh. I'm doing chemo. Thankyou!

No flaming from me and it was me she asked. I was just baffled by the question. Obviously I eat too much food which is why I'm overweight (yes there could be other reasons but in a thread about food I think it's pretty obvious the reason would be food).

Oh, OP!

How can you put a picture of that scrummy cake for hungry MumsNetters to see but not taste?

I'm drooling!

Should you take cakes in in the future, might I suggest mini sponges so the competitive under eaters take a slice. Or provide a couple pre-sliced to see what happens. Naturally so you can tell us 🍰

I have a friend who used to be a bit like this. She would insist she could only eat half a roll and try to push me into eating the other half so that she wasn’t eating more than I was. Bit pathetic really but infuriating too.

I don't see a problem with cutting a cake in half, so long as you don't touch the piece you leave behind. Maybe someone likes cake, but doesn't want the whole thing, or it might not be healthy for them to have a full portion, given their specific circumstances. I'd rather have half a cake than none, if I came around later in the day, and I wouldn't begrudge them taking half a cake, if that's all they could manage.

The faux incredulity that other people can eat so much, however... That's obnoxious and unnecessary!

I'm with you OP. For my DCs third birthday I took a home made spiderman cake into nursery. It had thin chocolate icing 'webs' on top of the sponge and was filled with strawberries. As the kids sat down to eat, one of the workers sitting with observed repeatedly that it was terribly unhealthy and they would get heart attacks.

It still makes me angry. I should have complained about her, but my DC had just managed to get into that nursery which was hugely oversubscribed and I felt really intimidated.

rude behaviour from her.

Also wasting food which annoys me, especially if I've paid for it.

If she's not a cake person she should have just congratulated you and left it for someone who was.