Would you be grossed out by homemade baked good in care package?

[BusyTraybake]

I am helping my sister put together care packages for her wedding. She is paying for the wedding party to stay in a posh hotel for a few nights. We are going to leave little care packages on the bed. I have an exceptional brownie recipe and was going to leave a trio of favours in the box. But sister’s SIL says she would never eat a homemade treat due to hygiene reasons.

obviously I will be clinically clean and wil even wear a hair net as I couldn’t think of anything worse than someone finding a hair.

Who is being weird?

You’ve just reminded me of when I was making some cakes with young Girls Brigaders, one of them said can we lick the bowl, without thinking anything of it I said yes , of course . One girl was aghast, raw eggs ! She’s my daughter’s close friend, 30 years later, we all survived!

It’s the mimsy preciousness, the delicate shudders at the very idea of eating something made by a person other than yourself that causes the baffled amusement.
I have only ever met one person with this kind of worldview and he had severe anxiety issues. During the BSE scare he refused to let his family go into the garden because of squirrels in the trees and squirrels were BSE carriers.
(Well, possibly, if you killed them and actually ATE their brains…)
But, you know, germs.

You've heard of washing and disinfectant, I suppose?

I may say I've never vomited into anything I've then used for baking. I can't recall ever seeing other posters mentioning that, but then I suppose I don't choose to read about other people's vomiting habits.

I wouldn't want a homemade thing from someone I didn't know as not everyone has the hygiene standards you say you have but clearly people have different views so maybe best to leave it. She's not being weird and neither are you but not everyone is comfortable with homemade stuff.

They were pretty open about it tbh after the colleague had been over, and joked about each other's lifestyles. The lady in question would laugh and say "hey a bit of dirt never did anybody any harm, builds you immunity etc." She was quite an outspoken person, and would call the other lady a "clean freak." They weren't bothered.
I wouldn't eat baked good from a knowingly dirty house though, no.

If anyone doesn't want them, send them my way. I like brownies. I'd happily eat them.

When my kids were young I often went to cake sales, or school fayre, just to buy the home baked cakes and biscuits. I let DH think I'd made them myself.

I have no idea, they got on fine though as far as I could see, and still went to each others houses! I worked in a strange place. 😂

Yes, that sounds right.

@BettyBardMacDonald

I'm never so desperate for a brownie or cake or whatever anyway, so passing them up is no hardship.
Some people place a higher value on snacking and aren't bothered about where the food comes from. They can have at it.

I'd rather munch on a cat hair cupcake than spend ten minutes with someone who actually felt the need to type that out. Did you not read that back to yourself and think, oops, that made me sound like a judgmental pillock?

washed the cats dishes with her own,
this I never understand the horror, my dogs bowls go in the dishwasher with everything else, they're being WASHED.
When my DD was at primary I was always called upon to fill the cake stand, quickest stall to sell out, no weirdo judgy types.

Dishwasher, yes. Sink full of steeping dirty water, no. Dirty unclean kitchen, no. Judge away.

For clarification:

'It's generally not recommended to wash pet dishes with human dishes for several reasons: Cross-Contamination: Pet dishes can harbor bacteria, parasites, and other pathogens that may not be present in human dishes. Washing them together increases the risk of cross-contamination.10 Apr 2022'

No idea how accurate it is, but I don't like the idea of washing them together in a sink. Washing human dishes first, then pet ones afterwards seems better.

Yabu. I never eat homemade items unless it's someone I know well and know their kitchen is really clean. I certainly wouldn't eat a random cake.
I don't have the time or patience to risk being ill.

nel I always refused to eat dodgy food when I was drunk in my youth too. Never had a kebab or anything like that. I am never relaxed......

I will only eat home made cakes - mmm r Kipling can fuck off!

Only on mumsnet is this a thing! People here (and your sisters friend evidently) are incredible at finding a reason not to enjoy every nice thing in life.

Make the lovely brownies and if a handful of uptight joyless weirdos want to pass on them it’s their loss

Family member had a wedding where all the puddings were provided by family and friends. It was like a huge bake sale and hugely enjoyed. Everybody lived.

Nooo even Waitrose cake is not a patch on home made! I’d be so disappointed. Put me down for a home made one please !

This. I would love a homemade brownie . Yum.

When I saw the title I immediately thought of care homes. Why the hell are “care packages” a thing? Or even needed? Sounds OTT to me. I think most of them will end up squashed in the boot on the way home. Waste of money.
if care packages are needed why not a box of chocolates or biscuits?
All a bit twee and a bit show-offy imo.

I'd be delighted to eat home-baked goods. No hygiene hang ups here. Never been ill from eating things from school bake sales, markets, from friends or anywhere else.

I’d eat them, and then I’d eat the ones left by the OCD people! 😂

How some people see a lovely kid gesture……

Sad to live like that.