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?

Not unless it's a pot brownie, which I'm sure wouldn't happen anywhere other than student digs. When the person is known to you, I cannot see the issue. Exactly, and op isn't a random. She is the sister of the bride.

@BettyBardMacDonald

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 classify anyone who eats Pringles as pretty desperate for a snack, actually.

Out of interest, how long and how many meals do you get from a chicken?

Asking for a friend!

Pringles actually argued in court that their product is so full of shite chemicals that it isn’t a potato product:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/may/21/pringles-vat-tax-crisps-snacks

Pringles are the very last thing any remotely discerning person should be putting in their mouths. Yuck!

Agreed. And those tubes never biodegrade.

God that's eye opening.

Pringles are one thing I never touch. Awful, artificial crap. They bear no resemblance to real food at all.

Absolutely, they are made of reconstituted instant mash among other things.

It doesn't surprise me. Although that article is more than 15 years old, they taste of nothing but cheap salt, and aren't as crunchy either. I remember when they first came out and they tasted so good, particularly the 'cheese and chive' flavour which they changed to 'sour cream and chive.'
Pringles have changed so much over the years, a long with Ben & Jerry's icecream, I wouldn't buy them.

It wouldn't occur to me to not eat them.

People who are squeamish have probably never been in a professional kitchen! This reminds me of the thread where a poster boycotted a restaurant because she saw an employee smoking a cigarette out back...

Good grief so much angst and aggro. I think this is the first time I've actually been glad to be coeliac,

Fun fact, the inventor had his ashes buried in a tube of "Original" flavour.

I would prefer home-made, as it will probably taste better! Who are these weirdos who are so obsessed with "hygiene", FFS?

I agree Is Care package the term now? I thought it was something given to the ill or needy - not posh hotel guests.

Surely it should’ve been a BBQ tube? 🤣

I never said I didn't snack.

Pringles Reduced Fat version actually taste more like the early, original version. What they now call original is heavier and greasier.

But they’re still shite, maybe not plopped in a sack by some random, but gobbled down by you all the same.

I would eat it but I'm not a germophobe and love homemade bakes, have never been ill from such a thing

My opinion on homemade brownies, in response to the OP, has absolutely zero to do with nutrition or health or disease.

As maybe, but your disparaging comments about home made brownies and “not being so desperate for a brownie”, led me to believe it’s important to be disparaging about your need to gobble down such shite.

Yes, exactly. I mean, eat a brownie or don't. Who cares?

But, again, do you not see the problem with this? Particularly in light of the Pringles revelation?

Some people place a higher value on snacking and aren't bothered about where the food comes from.

That aside, I'm trying to figure out the circumstance in which I'd voluntarily put a reduced fat Pringles in my mouth. I mean, I'm not a non-UPF zealot, but I have to think even something homemade in a non-sterile kitchen has to be less hazardous to your health than this

INGREDIENTS: DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, WHEAT STARCH.

What has it got to do with then?

I wouldn't have an issue with that as I bake for events myself. I think it's a lovely gesture. 😍 I've never had anyone question it. I put labels with ingredients though as I have intolerances.

Same. I like crisps and chocs but won’t eat Pringles. I feel like I am eating plastic. They are not nice.

It blows my mind that someone can pompously assert that ‘we are not desperate enough to eat potluck or home-made goods baked by randoms’ (paraphrased) but can eat their body weight in Pringles!

Well q quarter of a tube actually.😂
I'm guessing the limited and processed food diet means not very active taste buds.