To think people without a sweet tooth shouldn't buy

[FlapjacksandCocoa]

..obviously rich products, and then complain they're "too sweet." My latest experience was with a sibling who knowingly bought a large m&m white chocolate cookie bar, and then complained it was "too sweet." If you don't want sweet than why do you buy a slice of cake slathered in frosting, Mars bar brownies etc etc?! Do they really think they aren't going to taste sweet, and a bit sickly? Why not opt for a less sweet option in the first place?

Does any body else know somebody like this?

I think I am one of those people. Sometimes you want something sweet but the item is so disgustingly sweet it's not enjoyable. I always think there's way too much sugar in shop bought brownies and they would be nicer with half the sugar.

Yes, I have a friend who once said this too. She then had a brownie with less sugar and complained the texture wasn't fudgy and chewy enough. No pleasing these kinds 😂

YABU. I don't have a sweet tooth, but some cakes (and especially brownies) arnt too sweet for me. I won't know until I try them. If it's too sweet, then I won't buy it again.

I avoid things I absolutely know will be too sweet... i.e cake with icing and sprinkles, like birthday cake. But some things I don't know. I'd definitely try a "white chocolate cookie bar", it's not guaranteed to be too sweet. It might be, but it might be nice. I'd have to try it.

Some desserts are sweet, some are more creamy than sweet. I like creamy.

I'm not meaning just a cookie or just a brownie, or piece of chocolate cake.

I'm talking about things packed with Mars bar, m&ms, biscoff, nutella, golden blond etc. Surely it is obvious that these things will be a bit on the sickly sweet side?

Thing is, you're told repeatedly via marketing and through other people that you should like these items.

Think about it - they're marketed as a pleasurable indulgence, they're seen as visually attractive, they're described as rich, smooth, silky, creamy, the finest treats, melt in the mouth - everything about the language is deliberately chosen to tell people that these are what they should want.

I don't like sweets or cakes or biscuits and never have done, but if I say that, I'm thought of (and sometimes told it) as being weird, must be lying, I'm making excuses and just need a bit more encouragement. If I go to the annual middleaged, clearly about to keel over with all of the diseases healthcheck appointments, I spend every single one being told that everybody loves chocolate, cake and biscuits and 'it's good for us to cut down to two biscuits a day instead of three'. It seems as though the only health professional who believes me is my dentist.

It should be an easy thing for people to say they don't like something and not buy it - but that's the entire point of advertising - to condition you (and society/the market as a whole) to believe that you should like it.

I always used to think this watching bake off when Pru would complain it was ‘too sweet’ … umm yeah, it’s a cake! 😂

My Mum is one of these people, it drives me potty. Will always try something then screw her face up because it’s too sweet and then tell you she prefers a piece of cheese!

There are degrees of sweetness though.
Custard is sweet, but not as sweet as jam. Bananas =sweet, oranges= less so.
This week in the supermarket I saw Bakewell Tart Mince Pies. Two very sweet things in one. Bound to be sickly sweet.

Yes I know someone like this, me! I’ve done this so many times but I think I’m finally getting wise to it now and I have learnt to eat these things with my eyes as it’s much better than actually eating them for real.

Yabu.

Also, I don't think anyone innately has a sweet tooth or not. You train your taste by eating less or more of that thing.

People with a sweet tooth have that because they eat too much sugar. You can train yourself out of it. Sugar isn't good for you

There is quite a range, though. Biscoff is nowhere near as sweet as white chocolate, for example. I can enjoy a small mars bar but wouldn't be having six of them. I know I won't like store made mince pie but a homemade ones seems fine depending on who made them. Why is that you want me to stop buying things with my own money. I don't know whether or not I will like them until I try, will I ?

I think YABU and this is a really weird take! I like cakes as much as the next person but don't like things that are too sweet. I don't eat any sweets/candy and I can't stand lemonade or most soft drinks. I'll have a mix of soda water and tonic water sometimes (which makes ordering a G&T hard work 🤣). But hand me a chocolate fudge cake and I'm in my element! Chocolate/creamy things are not the same as truly sweet desserts imo. Too much sugar will ruin it, and you don't know that until you try.

Haha this is what I mean exactly! Some posters are taking me very literal. I am meaning obviously sickly thing, not all things sweet. For example I wouldn't expect a piece of chocolate fudge cake to be too sweet, I'd like to taste the chocolate more, and prefer it slightly more bitter. This I can understand being disappointing if it tastes overpowered with sugar.
I know sweetness is subjective, but when you don't like sickly stuff why buy it to try, when it is clearly going to be that way?
A cookie pie slice packed with an abundance of sickly chocolate and sugary spread is going to be too sweet for somebody who doesn't love too much sugar.
My dm ate a brownie which had white chocolate spread swirled through, kinder bueno pieces, more white choc chips through, stuff on the stop etc, then complained it was too sweet, and that she preferred a slice of Victoria Sponge, just why??!! 😂 She even said afterwards that she isn't usually keen on kinder!

Sure it's been said but white chocolate should be off the cards for any "It's too rich for me" sorts because of the lack of bitterness from cocoa and higher sugsr obviously. I'm not a big fan even and I love milk and dark chocolate.

But yeah, I always think "Well, yeah" if someone orders cake with an icing sugar topping and filling and complains it's too sweet or too rich. Yep, that'll be the icing sugar and butter which cake is known to have plenty of. I'm a keen baker and people wonder why I don't really eat my cakes - because I see how much sugar and butter go into them! (I love other people's cake though!)

My mother would disagree with you. I was the odd one out at home as well.

Things have changed; the fluffy blueberry muffins I had as a child were nothing like the greasy, sugary 'blueberry muffins' I still occasionally try...

This is completely understandable disappointment, for something like blueberry muffins.

Brownies need the sugar to give the texture. It's lack of chocolate that make brownies meh. You need lots of sugar and lots of chocolate.

But "obviously rich" things and sweet things are totally different, aren't they, OP?

DH loves sticky toffee pudding and haribo and that sort of thing, which is far too sweet for me.

I like super chocolately things, or ladels of cream, or soufflés, all of which are too rich for him.

Sometimes what looks rich and chocolatey turns out to be very sugary instead.

And a little espresso to bring out that chocolate flavour, and cut through the sugar.

A pinch of salt, a pinch of mace, and perhaps some nuts as well.

I try stuff and don't it all the time.
Everything seems too sweet these days....sometimes I forget that I'm old and boring and just can't handle overly sugary food anymore.
I should just stick to a dark chocolate digestive.

Fair enough; there are a lot of foods that really shouldn't be overly sweet that are, even bread!
Even dark chocolate digestives aren't the same anymore, with the lack of an acceptable depth of chocolate, and a cheapened biscuit base 😠

One of my colleagues complained something was "very rich"
Manager "it's a fucking chocolate truffle, what did you expect?"

🤣 I have had someone once say the Tiffin a colleague made which was filled with raisins, cherries, milk chocolate, syrup and butter, some mars bar too, was too sweet! She then said she had a slice of carrot cake the other day which was much nicer, and really nicely spiced. I had no words for that one?! 🤔