Do you eat homemade treats?

ToastieSimons · June 2014

It's the end of the school year and I was thinking about baking cupcakes for the staff. But some people get weirded out by homemade treats and if I let my kids help with baking, and the germs, etc.

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

I would eat them unless I knew the person making them didn't wash their hands or something.

I would steer clear of making treats for others because of allergies and whatnot unless you knew them well.

As a staff member (heh.), I always prefer cash or giftcards to food gifts.

ToastieSimons · June 2014

CinemaGoddess said:

I would eat them unless I knew the person making them didn't wash their hands or something.

I would steer clear of making treats for others because of allergies and whatnot unless you knew them well.

As a staff member (heh.), I always prefer cash or giftcards to food gifts.

I already got everyone gifts and gift cards so this would be in addition

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CinemaGoddess · June 2014

bay511 said:

No. Yuck. I'm weird about it though. Fruit or something that can be washed/and or hasn't been cooked yet, like casserole, yes. Until the day I find a hair, lol

Or until the day someone comes in with "delicious treats!!!!" and sends out a mass email and you show up and it's all organic hippy granola bullshit with no chocolate in sight.

Jerks.

ToastieSimons · June 2014

CinemaGoddess said:

bay511 said:

No. Yuck. I'm weird about it though. Fruit or something that can be washed/and or hasn't been cooked yet, like casserole, yes. Until the day I find a hair, lol

Or until the day someone comes in with "delicious treats!!!!" and sends out a mass email and you show up and it's all organic hippy granola bullshit with no chocolate in sight.

Jerks.

WTF?! Treats=sugar and/or chocolate and/or frosting etc...

The only way oats are a treat is if they're in oatmeal cookies.

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

ScoutNumbers05 said:

I think I would riot if someone announced treats and it turned out to be granola.

There damn near was. People were PISSED.

Almost as pissed as when TPTB switched donut day for whole wheat bagel day.

We had our revenge, though.

TPTB decided it was in the best healthy interest of the staff to replace the candy bars in the vending machine with Fiber One bars.

That didn't end well.

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

You guys forget.

I live in Seattle.

Every company has to out-granola the other companies.

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ToastieSimons · June 2014

MotherOfPearl85 said:

I would but I was lurking a board and most people said they always end up with their cat or dog's hair in their food and it's NBD. Umm, that's a big freaking deal to me.

eww. I love my pets but I do not want to eat their hair.

jenn330 · June 2014

I think if I knew the person and what their kitchen habits were, then maybe I would eat the treats they brought. But I usually politely decline no matter who brought it. Just my weird paranoid preference.

Monkeybabe · June 2014

Yes. I'll eat all the baked goods.

Cryssteen · June 2014

MotherOfPearl85 said:
I would but I was lurking a board and most people said they always end up with their cat or dog's hair in their food and it's NBD. Umm, that's a big freaking deal to me.

Dude, there's like no way to
Control it. I think it's gross, but those little monsters are everywhere!

Monkeybabe · June 2014

I like cheese danish. >.>

MrsT0514 · June 2014

I usually eat all the treats!

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

I only like savory cheese danishes.

Sweet cheese danishes are the worst.

Monkeybabe · June 2014

Do you like fruity danish, @cinemagoddess? I mean, that's breakfast, not dessert, so is it still a no go?

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

Monkeybabe said:

Do you like fruity danish, @cinemagoddess? I mean, that's breakfast, not dessert, so is it still a no go?

No.

I will eat apple fritters, though.

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

I don't like cream cheese, so there's that.

TugboatSheila · June 2014

Oh man. I could be eh about cheese danish until I had a Vetrushka (anyone who knows Russian I'm sure this is spelled wrong) in Seattle. Now I know that they are fantastic.

Also, I love homemade goods so I say go for it but think the ingredient list is a good idea for allergies

virgin4lyfe · June 2014

@cinemagoddess how do you eat delicious bagels then?
(sorry if you're GF or something I don't know about.)

CinemaGoddess · June 2014

KJLx121 said:

@cinemagoddess how do you eat delicious bagels then?
(sorry if you're GF or something I don't know about.)

Toasted with butter and jam.

I am not GF. I would probably curl up into a little ball and die if I was GF.

virgin4lyfe · June 2014

CinemaGoddess said:

KJLx121 said:

@cinemagoddess how do you eat delicious bagels then?
(sorry if you're GF or something I don't know about.)

Toasted with butter and jam.

I am not GF. I would probably curl up into a little ball and die if I was GF.

I didn't think you were, nor do I think you are the type to get butthurt over stuff like that, but I couldn't remember and lots of people are just so easily offended :P

littlestjerry · June 2014

I've been quite traumatized by my MIL's kitchen/food safety standards. It's taught me to be wary of what comes out of other people's kitchens.

virgin4lyfe · June 2014

I honestly thought the capitals and all were just an extreme manifestation of your hatred for them for a minute.

BankerBSN · June 2014

I am one of those weird people that will never eat baked goods from a 'stranger's' kitchen.

Wulfgar · June 2014

At my work, depending on who brought what in would depend on if others would eat it. There is a small number of us that like really hot food so the usual question is who made it. Or whose desk is it sitting at and is the hot freaks hovering around it.

Two years ago at our chili cook off they didn't rate heat on the dishes and put the hottest spice wise at the beginning of the line. Needless to say, I don't think my work is going to make that mistake again. Last year they had one leg that was all really hot chili that most people avoided.

jorkz821 · June 2014

Every Christmas at work, the NP group gets together and makes these huge cookie/bar/treat gift boxes for all the team members and it's amazing. Highlight of the year I dare say.

Team eat all the things!

TiffanyBerry · June 2014

I've given the preschool teachers granola as part of a larger, class gift. But, like @CinemaGoddess, I'm in Seattle. And my homemade granola is pretty kick ass. :P

(But all the other treats have been treats, even though not all have had chocolate. :P )

Mags748 · June 2014

I never knew so many people were germaphobes when it came to baked goods.

I would go to a bake sale and eat anything as long as it looked good. I have never once gotten food poisoning from a pot luck, bake sale, birthday treats etc. I have such a sweet tooth that it has to be covered in dirt for me not to eat it.

Also, when you hear of food poisening outbreaks at picnics and other public places, they don't typically blame the dessert.

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