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?

In the past I'd have said yes to eating them but after a colleague brought in baking covered in cat hair it's put me off for life.

I have a lovely little bakery where I live. Everything is handmade. It’s also really popular. Perhaps we’re all gross round here. I much prefer it. Lovely idea but I wouldn’t bother wasting your time if it’s unappreciated.

Ewww MNHQ - we need a vomit emoji reaction button please, thank you.

I wouldn’t think twice about eating them. You might get the odd person who won’t want to eat them for hygiene reasons just as you may get the odd person who won’t eat them because they’re on a diet or don’t like the flavour but you can’t guarantee everybody will like everything, I’m sure there’ll be a couple of people who won’t want the chilli pretzels or won’t use the bag too. Presumably it’s not about buying everybody the perfect gift or everything would have to be personalised/ individual, you’re just wanting to give a generic gift that will be vaguely appreciated by all and the majority of people won’t be worried about eating them just because they’re homemade so go for it.

I would love it. I love home baked things. It's a lovely idea and most people won't react like your SIL.

I'd be offering to help out the fussy ones by taking the brownies off their hands.

I would only eat home baking made by people I know as I would know whether they are hygienic.

Me too!

You’re getting peculiar answers when there are some minging businesses out there. home made doesn’t mean lack of rigour or poor hygiene. I’d be delighted to receive handmade confectionery. It is v thoughtful

Laughing at how many people wouldn't eat anything home made but are happy to eat food full of process junk that really is no good for anyone. Lovely idea of yours - just tie a label on with any allergen info (nuts,gluten,dairy etc) and have a fabulous day!!

I'd much rather have something home made instead of something UPF.

Jeez, people are weird these days. Not eating homemade cakes is weird. Home made cakes are so much nicer than shop bought

Spell out why. What bad things might happen to you from eating a home-made cake? We're not talking about undercooked chicken or some other high-risk food here.

Pre Covid, my team at work always had loads of treats. Shop bought and home made. One day a colleague bought in some left over bday cake. His wife had made one for his Son’s bday over the weekend and despite eating it all weekend long they had loads left over. She’d made things before and they always tasted lovely…

Literally as myself and another colleague were biting into the slices we’d cut, the colleague who had bought in the cake, started telling us the story of the bday weekend celebrations and how an hour before the party, the dog had been caught half on the counter top biting at the cake.

The thing is, he didn’t even take a breath as he then began to tell us about the saving of the cake and how the Nerf party was a success, Grandad stole the show joining in with the Nerfs, how the child had some lovely gifts etc. He obviously didn’t think it was odd at all to be sharing this dog ravaged cake.

We had no alternative than to swallow our bites, but the rest of our slices remained on the napkins until he stopped talking, turned his back and they could be binned.

Still to this day, I don’t understand how the cake was given to guests and offered to us!

Not sure what you mean by "that sort of wedding"

The pyjamas are for the bride/bridesmaid etc to wear whilst getting ready, most people probably won't see that.

Oh I wonder if we know the same woman. I used to look at the mothers at playgroup tucking into her baking and think "if they only knew."

Wouldn’t think twice about eating them. Yum 😋

Its your sisters wedding so its up to her really and she gets the final say.

Fucking hell people are batshit

I'll happily eat a homemade cake. Much nicer than sterile crap in a box from a supermarket full of additives and low quality ingredients!

I’d love it!

Of course I'd eat it. Its a lovely little gesture. Anyone who is paranoid about food hygiene 🙄 can just bin it, can't they?

I’m in the bin it camp.

I help out at my village fete cake stall and am always amazed at how fast the home made cakes go. Possibly because I see the absolute state of some of my elderly neighbours’ kitchens - and they’re the ones kindly baking the cakes.

You have issues and have clearly never been in a commercial kitchen!

Some people are so paranoid these days, they'd rather eat some mass produced crap full of ultra processed junk like palm oil than a delicious artisan brownie. I think if you are one of these odd people with a complex about food having to all be 'packaged' you need to get help

So many people are really funny about eating food prepared in domestic kitchens but don't give a second thought to some of the truly horrendous stuff that goes on in factories and takeaway/restaurant kitchens.

That would apply to food at any function wouldn't it?