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 try to remember to be careful about what sweet things I go for as there's too many greasy, tasteless sweet things around that are frankly disappointing. Part of my brain gets seduced by the concept, and sometimes I forget that something will just end up tasting of sweetened palm oil and my brain is harking back to long-since abandoned recipes of the past.

I call wagon wheels "disappointments" to remind myself that they will not taste of a lovely combination of chocolate, biscuit, mallow and jam.

It's not sweetness or richness that tends to get me, it's greasy blandness.

Genuinely rich things tend to be better made and in small portions anyway.

It’s quite difficult to get things that are a bit sweet, but not too sweet, these days. I think of myself as having a sweet tooth, but I look at most of the cakes on sale in bakeries, at food markets etc, and they’re just too much. Muffins the size of grapefruits. Cakes with bars of chocolate stuck on top and marshmallows on top of that. Everything drowning in biscoff, which should be nice but is also a bit too close to what happens to biscuits after a baby has slobbered on them. Yuck.

Because they expect it to be slightly different?

I can't stand butter icing and find it sickeningly sweet. I only like icing made from plain icing sugar mixed with water. I do sometimes like cake. If I see thick icing on it, I can assume I won't like the icing, but I might like the rest of the cake and can just leave the icing. The presence of sickeningly sweet icing doesn't necessarily denote a sickeningly sweet cake.

I like sweet things but it's got to be a nice sweet thing! I love those indian sweets that are made of consensed milk, or baclava covered in golden syrup. But if something is just bland and sweet, that is not good. Most shop bought cakes are like this. It needs some balance, a great texture or a bitter taste eg dark chocolate.

I've never understand people who buy chocolate cake and then complain it's too 'rich'. My mum does this and it drives me up the wall.

I’m exactly the same, I don’t like sweet things, never have and I especially detest any kind of sweets, hard boiled, jellies, gummies etc. The looks and comments I get when I say I don’t like them, you’d think I’d said I enjoy eating kittens!

I do agree though I know some people who always order things described as such or triple chocolate or whatever then complain it’s sweet 😂

My ds does this when we're out for dinner, he will order the £7 slice of chocolatey, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, sprinkles and just a heap more chocolate then not finish it because it's too rich!

I've stopped him repeating this again and again!!

My sweet tooth has practically disappeared but I agree that it’s really tricky to navigate things now. I think YANBU as white chocolate feels like a fairly likely sweet thing to me. It it were dark chocolate it might be worth a shot.

I find people see it as a criticism of them if I say things look too sweet for me, so I tend to just make excuses if they’re on the cards. I don’t want to hurt feelings ever. I rarely try cakes etc in shops unless it looks like the sort of place that would sell things that are properly semi-sweet. It’s not self-denying virtue, just my tastebuds. Often it means I go hungry if they are the only things on offer at an event!

I agree by the way that blueberry muffins have sadly declined. And sweeteners are so much sweeter than sugar too, and they get everywhere.

Sometimes you fancy something sweet but find it too much when you get it. I almost never have sweet food but very occasionally fancy a brownie - but can only manage a couple of bites before I find it sickly. I wish you could buy single brownie bites, I don't want a whole tub of them! The white chocolate cookie thing sounds absolutely revolting though, I can't imagine why someone would buy one unless they had an extreme sweet tooth...

Polish or Turkish bakeries are good for not too sweet items with cheese or nuts. I haven't explored a lot of baking traditions but maybe looking at the baked goods in 'global' or corner shops might be worth a try?

Oh this drives me crazy too!

Polish donuts with sour plum jam or cream cheese are amazing.

Completely agree, If you ever want to start a petition I will sign it.

Do you know where they bought this bar?

It is a bit annoying as if you don't eat things like processed cakes and chocolate bars regularly then of course it's going to seem too sweet.
I don't mind sweet stuff, but prefer creamy things like custard, cream rather than chocolate etc. but it's true that commercial chocolate bars and cakes are way too sweet.
You should encourage her to make some recipes with much less sugar.
It could also be she feels guilty eating it if she's trying to avoid such things, so it's like an aide memoire to herself saying 'i didn't actually enjoy that'. I can see why it grates on you a bit though!

Because there's a whole range of chocolate cake, from chocolate cake with a hint of bitterness as in dark chocolate or cocao which is gorgeous even with butter cream frosting and filling, to chocolate cake which looks exactly the same, but all you can taste is the buttercream and is disgustingly rich and fatty.

I've got a sweet tooth. I can eat the marzipan and royal icing from a Christmas cake by itself, I always finish a meal with something sweet. But often bought cakes are fatty and sweet without a great deal of discernible taste.

Brownies freeze really well @rumblegrumble ; I buy the expensive ones at Christmas, cut them in halves or quarters and just stick them in a freezer bag so I can get the odd piece out when I want

Ooh, that's good to know - oddly that never occurred to me. I usually only get them when I'm out for coffee and either nurse it unhappily feeling more and more nauseous, or take it home and nibble it throughout the rest of the day until it goes stale. I will try doggy bag and freeze, it's so disappointing as the first couple of bites are so good but I always end up hating the bloody thing!

yeah I’m like this. I like a sweet treat but not something that makes my teeth curl!

Coconut sugar is more expensive but doesn't give the toothachey dizzy high. It's fine in baking to sub for castor.