Is it just me who dislikes being given home made things to eat?

[FlightAttendant]

It probably is

but some jar of anonymous preserve comes home from the school tombola and I just regard it with suspicion then label it up for his teacher instead.

Is it just me? I do not like the idea of non inspected premises especially when people say 'Oh well ds was sick last week so he was at home with me and we made these'

weirdos but I agree nothing from the hands of a child

I would much rather eat homemade.

I have decided not to eat anything at all now, thanks to this thread. Who started the bloody thing?

Really?

Human dustbin me

DH brought home a jar of chutney made by a woman in his office who is horrid and everyone hates - I couldn't possibly entertain the idea of eating it so it'll be relabelled as AvadaKedavra's secret recipe and passed on to some poor unsuspecting in law at Xmas

ha ha at flight

you can eat things that you have made

yeah colditz I have worked in food factories too.

Cannot believe anyone would want shop-bought caks when there is home-made on offer

LOL @ flight, you'll have to grow yr own wheat for bread you bake etc.

I'll eat anything. Probably why I never get ill!!! I imagine that anyone going to the trouble of making home-made gifts will be more careful about food hygiene than your average restaurant/factory. Or even if not, the types of food on offer are unlikely to make you ill.

The thing is, people who work in factories, etc, making food, are generally very underpaid and ripped off by their bosses, so they all carry a generalized sense of seething resentment around, which often comes out in forms such as farting into the packs of turkey ham before they are sealed, or daring each other to stick their willies in the doughnuts, or just not being too bothered about what's been dropped on the floor.
OK when it comes to homebaked stuff there is perhaps the possibility that someone left off icing the cake to have a big dump and didn't wash their hands afterwards, but apart from a very small minority of headbanging wierdos, no one is going to deliberately jizz in the flan cases or wipe their cat's arse over the biscuit cutter.

Any, FFS live a little. What do you think you've got an immune system for?

I imagine that if someone is going to all the time and trouble to produce something like preserve ,they will also have taken care with how they prepared it.

Recycling it to the teacher is a bit mean. Surely if you don't think it is appropriate to eat then it should go in the bin!!!

FA does that make giving you homemade cakes, jams, chutneys, toffees, fudge, truffles etc as a christmas present a big no no?

And what about being invited for a meal or dinner party at someone's house. Would you be able to go to that?

Does no one know the McDonalds - Herpes story?

SolidGhoulBrass - I'd never heard the word 'jizz' till a few days ago on this funny one

here

Id rather eat home-made food personally. my Mil is always bringing over lovely pies she has made and they taste soo much better than shop-bought, plus its the thought that someone has gone to the effort of making it especially for you. I love making cakes for others too, id be sad if I thought people would have rather have had something bought for them.

I think there's a heat issue too - I'm not too worried about someone's home-made jam or biscuits, and what ever dodgy things may happen to a ready meal in a factory (well almost), it's probably pretty safe once I've zapped it into oblivion. But I do wonder about iced cakes and decorations that bogey-fingered 3-year-olds have toiled over. DP hates having to eat any baking that comes home from nursery with DS - he fears the bogeys.

at least some people are happy about the "elf and safety gorn maaad "

Well Flight I wasn't worried before but I am now! Great - now I have a food issue .

So that's why my friends are always on a diet when I've baked.....I thought it was just because I'm not very good

gosh, i'd far rather some yummy cake home made with butter than some weirdy trans-fat abomination.

I hadn't really considered this too much - I went to a school cake sale and fed my DS (3) and my DD (1) and myself cakes that I bought that someone else had made. They were really tasty and we have survived .

I am not keen on homemade jams and chutneys purely for the amount of time that they can often be stored for. I think of mould etc growing. Anything that has been made in the last few days by an unknown parent, I'm happy to eat it. I would be a bit more careful if I was pg or something like that.

YABU! though this isn't AIBU...

home made = yummy. especially when its knitted by Nanas..

hmm WI cake...takes 25 years to make a sponge and those ladies have had more than twice that...man those grannies can cook.

apart from the one that put lard in an almond flan. yech.

i have also worked in food businesses. home made anyday. not that i'm fussy.