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?

Yes I'm sure your lives are full of friends, joy and laughter.

I'm just explaining how it looks from the outside. You do you 🤷‍♀️

This poster buys herself twelve presents throughout the year, then wraps them for herself to open at Christmas!

not surprising but again tragic!

@BettyBardMacDonald the comments aren't all aimed at you, although your use of language is interesting. There are quite few posters saying they won't eat anything homemade, won't eat at friends, won't let their children eat birthday cake at parties etc. That must be limiting

And the fact that they assume mass produced food or catered food is superior in all ways

I guess I don't think eating flour, sugar and carbs occasionally is a big deal. What if they left a homemade protein snack? 😂

And the fact that they assume mass produced food or catered food is superior in all ways

This is the bit that really gets me. I can't even imagine thinking that. What an extraordinary position.

Never knowingly refused cake.

And as cakes are mostly sugar, flour, eggs and fat, unless the fat is completely rancid and the eggs are 'off' (both of which will smell awful before the cake is even made) - there is nothing about the ingredients that are going to make anyone 'ill'. Raw cake mixture is baked at quite a high temperature which will kill most bacteria, and 'things' (hair, dust, germs, etc) will settle just as readily on a shop bought cake as they will on a home baked one. So anyone that way inclined ought not to eat even shop-bought cake unless they can personally vouch for the conditions that cake was kept in during its entire time since leaving the factory. Or even whilst IN the factory.

It's fine, you can all give me your reject cake, I'll sacrifice myself...

The OP has wisely moved on, I think, but we are actually responding to her question, and she made it clear that she was thinking of making a small batch of brownies to distribute to members of her own family and the close family and friends of her sister and husband-to-be on the night before the wedding. She is hardly 'some rando' to these people and I doubt she was planning to dump her carefully baked brownies in a sack either.

I absolutely love the books of Betty (Bard) MacDonald, which I've known since childhood. I really strongly doubt that she would have turned down a good quality home-made brownie. She wrote a lot about good food, the joys of family and friends eating together, the merits of home cooking and how unappetising much US food was - and she was writing about the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. She'd have been a trenchant critic of the US food industry these days, but I don't think she'd have had any time for the diet industry either.

How funny that you think sneering at people makes you so superior.

Your language gives you away - and most of us have plenty of social connections too s thank you. I mean some us us even go to places that serve drinks out of glasses the staff have touched with their ‘gasp’ fingers - I suppose that’s something b the resident germaphobes find horrifying as well.

Id say those of us who have no qualms about a homemade cake are the ones more likely to have wide social connections as we haven’t disappeared up our own rear ends.

I thought most food poisoning was from meat and chicken. I very much doubt anyone would be ill from
cake.

Yes. Eat cardboard.

Actually she often wrote about slimming, and she was scathing about food prepared by others, from her relatives to her neighbours the Kettles to women she knew on their island home.

Many of her chapters (and also ones in books written by her sister Mary) scoff at dubious foods prepared by people under less than ideal conditions.

I don't recall anyone saying that commercially prepared or mass-produced food is superior. Nor that homemade baked goods cause illness.

Some of you are truly grasping at straws to critique and insult those of us who have merely said we don't care for homemade foods and potlucks and wouldn't partake in.

Those who like that sort of thing should have at it.

I think it's because a willingness to eat a homemade brownie doesn't equate to being willing to 'gobble anything'.

Eating does not = gobbling (unless you have disordered thinking around food).

There is a whole world of food I choose not to consume. I don't place a value judgment on people who choose to consume it.

You must have a very small little life, based on your postings on this thread, which is your choice, but others don't have to tell you it's normal.

Yes, jello salads and the like, not home baking, surely. There is zero evidence to say that the OP is preparing 'dubious foods' in 'under less than ideal conditions'.

I think it’s a really lovely touch. I would definitely eat them!

@BettyBardMacDonald Yeah..."desperate", "rando", "plopped", "sack", "scoff" - all these terms are derogatory, sneery, nasty and reek of your own perceived moral superiority.

I'm glad I'm not you.

Absolutely this!

The rude, sneery comments say a lot about this poster!

Absolutely. Hyacinth Bouquet is alive in MN

They might be rude, ill mannered, patronising, and sneery but hey they don’t ‘scoff’ homemade cake therefore the are sooooooooo superior to the rest of society in their deluded little heads.

All fur coat and no knickers I usually find

When teaching GCSE English I taught the kids ‘semantic fields’ 😀 You nailed it! 😇

I think the care package idea is a total waste of time and money.. sorry

And germ freaks need their heads examined

Just checking- by 'that sort of thing' you mean homemade food made by anyone in the world other than you? In other words, what everyone eats if they aren't subsisting on ready meals, processed crap or takeaways, or going out to eat every day? Crazy...

Nice try. 😂