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AIBU?

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AIBU to want her to have served the cake?!

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Kariba29 · 12/03/2010 11:37

Please be nice this is my first post!

So recently met another new mum through another site (that was before i joined this one!) Have met a few times in town but was asked to come to her house for coffee yesterday.

On my way i passed by Marks and Spencer and got a small cake that i thought would be nice to have with coffee.

Got to her place and mentioned i had brought cake, she said thanks but you shouldn't have, anyway come coffee time we are sat in the kitchen facing the cake i bought but she didnt offer the cake and i didnt want to say please cut the cake as i dont know her very well,

Am I BU to be dissappointed the cake was not offered, probably wouldnt have felt this way if i wasnt on a diet and fancied a treat!

OP posts:

daysoftheweek · 12/03/2010 22:57

was just eating a lovely piece of coffee and walnut cake (M&S) read this and had to have another!

Rolf · 12/03/2010 23:07

I bet she's given up cake for Lent and has put it in her special tin, so she eat it on Easter Sunday.

WibbleDribble · 12/03/2010 23:10

Bit late to stick my oar in here but maybe in her defence she is diabetic? Although even so she should've at least offered u a slice. Even if she didn't want any herself. If u came to mine with cake you'd certainly be offered a slice or two. With tea/coffee. Or wine (grin) Hey ho!

CelticUnited · 12/03/2010 23:19

Isn't that a bit rude though, giving someone's present back to them?

"asked if you wanted to take the rest home for you or your DP/DH"

thesecondcoming · 12/03/2010 23:40

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petisa · 13/03/2010 02:29

Had M&S coffee and walnut cake for the first time recently ? ohhhh the gorgeousness!!! Definitely my fave cake now.

Victoria sponge ? boak. Hard yukky cream and crappy jam.

OP, be bolder next time and say it?s for you both to SHARE NOW with coffee, so where?d you keep your knives??

ToccataAndFudge · 13/03/2010 02:43

Waitrose Carrot cake is lovely (only carrot cake I've ever eaten and really enjoyed)

gtamom · 13/03/2010 05:28

I had to look up Victoria Sandwich Cake, now I want one.
I like coffee and carrot cake too.
It is puzzling she didn't serve the cake. she must not have figured out she should have served it.
Other than cake confusion, did you have a nice visit together?

LadyBee · 13/03/2010 06:01

Kariba, where do you live? I have invited a friend around for coffee today (I am pregnant and insomniac, hence early morning post) and she said she will bring cake.
I promise to serve it.
You can come too and have a piece, and ditch the other internet mummy.

I like this thread, it's very funny. And how odd, she should definitely have put the cake on a plate and served it as an option along with whatever else she had prepared. Nice biscuits indeed! who would think they were a sufficient replacement when there's cake available?

groundhogs · 13/03/2010 21:23

Oh for all those that think they don't like Coffee cake...

I've got a recipe for you... scrabble, scrabble.....

ah, found it! here!

I swear to god, it's good, the strawberry jam really offsets the coffee nicely....

Try it!

Original poster

Kariba29 · 13/03/2010 22:41

@Ladybee im in Leeds whereabouts are you?

and to all those who asked if i will see her again, call me crazy but yes im not going to let my love of cake come between me and the making of a new mummy friend

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NEmummy · 13/03/2010 22:44

Watching a cake whilst drinking coffee and eating pap biscuits would have torn me apart..I would have to reconsider my friendship because obviously any person who isn't enthusiastic about cake must have a screw loose

For the record though, the best cake in the world is Nigella's Guiness Cake..must be 1000 calories per slice but so very worth it

Nettiespagetti · 13/03/2010 23:09

1 urbu I mean u did get a biscuit!! Maybe she was worried about crumbs all over her lovely non baby sucked on rug!! Quite understandably!
2 I want to have coffee with fourarms
3it should be IMO illegal to purchase said nice biscuits and they should not be available for your worst enemy!!
4 paulaplumpbottom u should be worried have you been invited back since sconeVcake incident?

I am still Reading so may have further points to add!!

Ps have finally discovered what pmsl means been trying to work it out for ages

giraffesCantCeilidhDance · 13/03/2010 23:30

Where do you live~? Can you come here and bring cake'?

LadyBee · 14/03/2010 14:43

Oh Kariba, that's a shame, I'm in London. But you're welcome to drop down anytime you have a cake in hand

pigletmania · 14/03/2010 15:06

oh no i like niece biscuits oh dear

paulaplumpbottom · 14/03/2010 22:04

Well she was at my house but she has been back since and I have been to hers.

What do you do if sevral people come and they all bring cake?

2rebecca · 14/03/2010 22:07

I'd probably open them all and then let the cake bringers take the remainder of their cakes home with them.

Nettiespagetti · 14/03/2010 22:22

Agree with 2reb eat all cakes!

Has finished off a lemon merengue (sp) almost singlehandedly!

WildSheepChase · 14/03/2010 22:35

I've just had to eat 3 custard creams as a result of this thread.

Coffee and walnut cake- lush, especially when it's been sat out for the afternoon and has a gooey gooey syrupy base.

Carrot cake- as long as it doesn't have the abomination that is PINEAPPLE in it. I make the most amazing cream cheese icing in the world.

Victoria Sponge- cheap from the frozen section of the supermarket, and only partially defrosted so the middle is frozen ZOMG.

Cheesecake- truly the cake of the gods. Vannila baked, no fancy shmancy stuff.Maybe a raspberry coulis.

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