To roll my eyes over cake drama

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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!

My MIL too, she can’t eat a whole anything. Her kitchen is filled with things with a bite taken out of them. Fruit bowl has a half eaten orange or half eaten banana. Biscuit tin has biscuits with bites taken out of them that have then contaminated the rest of the biscuits. Half eaten yoghurts in the fridge. It’s gross 🤢

Why can’t she just throw the other half away if she doesn’t want the rest? I’ll tell you why, she wants everyone to see how restrained she is. It irks me more than it should.

Interesting however in my experience it’s been people who are not thin that do it and also the “I never eat - insert name of calorific food”. My mil used to do do it with chocolates, not realising every time I we t round I could see the box of Maltesers down the side of the chair. It’s always about them though not the person they are accusing of gluttony, like they are signalling that although they arent slim it’s not through greed. Meanwhile, no one else is giving this other persons weight a seconds thought.

Agree with this.

Some people do get offended if you don’t partake or they mention it and you say you don’t fancy it.

The cake looks nice but I would cut it in half. I grew up having it instilled not to waste food and I would rather cut half off and try it than pick it up, have a bite, not like it and bin it.

eugh I never understand why people take half a cake. They’ve touched it with their grubby mits so no one is going to take the other half anyway! If she couldn’t manage it she shouldnt have taken any. I’m with you!

You can cut a piece in half without having to touch the cake at all.

I'd be getting the boak at her having her fingers all over it then putting it back 🤢 she is being unreasonable just for that fact alone

For me, it's the whole performative nature of words like 'rich' and 'filling'. They are words that my mum used to use - of course cakes are rich, they are meant to be (well, the sort of cake that gets eaten in public and for celebration I mean, not like madeira cake). Why not just say 'bit sweet for me,' that's far more socially acceptable and doesn't imply that you beamed straight in from rationing.

Brilliant!!!😂😂😂😂😂

Maybe she realised there wasn't enough for everyone so cut it half to share?

You can, but she didn't. She cut it in half after taking a bite and saying it was too rich for her (delicate stomach).

"Too rich and too filling"...I'd have laughed and loudly responded "Iv'e been around long enough to know that neither of those things are possible."
Silly woman. I hate people like that but make a joke out of it, and never offer her any food ever again. I guess she might have an eating disorder or something which might be the only mitigating factor. Still annoying as fuck though.

If I want something and it looks too big/too much, I might discreetly ask amongst my friends if they want to share it with me.

I would not cut it in half and leave a lonely half sat there, with no one else knowing if it was cut without being molested and poked and prodded and therefore unlikely to be eaten and thus wasted. Thats just irritating.

I'd also not make a performance about asking if anyone wanted to share, as thats potentially bloody annoying as well!

The chances of this happening are microscopic as I can almost always find room for cake!

Of course you can 🤦‍♀️ but she didn’t did she. She even BIT into it. Anyway, I’d never go for the left over half as you don’t know what the other person has done to it. Eat the whole thing or don’t be ridiculous cutting single portions in half.

I know. I was commenting on another poster’s comment about not understanding people cutting cake and read it as in general not this individual person.

Anyway, I’d never go for the left over half as you don’t know what the other person has done to it.

I just ask if someone would like to split with me. Never found anyone not wanting to ime.

Some people just don't like very sweet food. I can't eat more than a couple of squares of chocolate but I'm definitely not thin! Could eat a family sized pizza or whole tube of Pringles for example.

I don’t know. I can see this woman was rude and irritating, but it seems a bit harsh to make that assumption.

I think you might need to read the post again…the situation you’re making up didn’t happen to the poster… which is what people are commenting on. If you agree to split a cake with someone else then good for you but that’s not what happened here.

Follow her around at lunch bellowing ‘NOT GOING TO MANAGE ALL OF THAT - ARE YOU?’.

Absolutely THIS.

I know that!

I already explained that I read your post as in general, not just this situation. Perhaps, you need to go back and re-read what I said instead of assuming I didn’t read the OP.

If I'd taken a cake that was too sickly. I would have just wrapped it up in a bit of kitchen roll and eaten the other part later on. Then again no cake is sickly as far as I'm concerned. Can't be doing with performance eaters either. I once worked with someone like that, who couldn't believe I could manage a whole mince pie. All I could hear as I was shoving it in was oh gosh I don't know how you can manage to eat all of that. I can't manage more than a couple of bites. Don't you feel sick now after eating all of that? No I fucking don't thank you very much.

Ha ha ha ha I wish I had the balls to actually do this.

I think many workplace's has a twat who's a competitive under eater who uses it as an attention seeking exercise;we've all come across them.

My MIL does this.
She was over for dinner once, I was serving dinner and put a small portion of pie on her plate. I thought she was going to have a fucking heart attack, she actually squealed and almost threw it back at me. CUT THAT IN HALF, I CANNOT EAT THAT.
I've realised she eats most of her food while stood up in the kitchen when she thinks no one can see.