Do you actually eat home-baked goods you get as gifts

[madeara]

Hi,
Yes I do.  I love eating the cookies that my neighbor gives us every year.  Her cookies and baked goods are terrific.  Have a restful day!

[jkhanson]

I am not a big germ-a-phobia type person so I didn't even think about me not eating homemade food gifts or
 about other people not wanting to eat homemade treats.  I guess I trust the friends and family I share treats with.
If I don't like the baked goodie, then I don't eat it.

[sdenimandlace1]

We eat it here have never, got anything I thought would not be good.

[pectacon]

First off I have to tell you I love animals and they have free run of my home, but my cats are not allowed on my kitchen counters.   A few years ago one of my co workers brought rice crispy treats that she made.  Another co-worker took one, bit into it and pulled out a cat hair.  The girl who made them just laughed and said something like my cats love to sit on the counter and watch me.  After that I only eat things from people i know and trust.  I'm not about to find my cats hair in anything and I certainly don't want to find anyone's cats!

Ewwww. I didn't know it was possible to train a cat not to go on counters, I thought that was just sort of the default in cat homes that you just have to accept that they'll be anywhere and everywhere. I love animals but that's one reason I'm not a cat person. My dogs are messy too but at least they're basically confined to the floor.

[stretch1967]

As long as its not fruit cake

[catchow]

I only eat from people I know or trust.

[debidoo]

Wow interesting question - the only person who does this is my sister-in-law and I would definitely eat anything she made - now the new neighborhood I live in is wanting to do a cookie exchange and I don't know any of my neighbors really so I don't know how I feel about it.  But I think its a lovely idea you have.

[judylucas]

I think any baked goods I would receive would be given to me from someone I am very close to and I'm certain I would eat it

[countrygirl12]

First off I have to tell you I love animals and they have free run of my home, but my cats are not allowed on my kitchen counters.   A few years ago one of my co workers brought rice crispy treats that she made.  Another co-worker took one, bit into it and pulled out a cat hair.  The girl who made them just laughed and said something like my cats love to sit on the counter and watch me.  After that I only eat things from people i know and trust.  I'm not about to find my cats hair in anything and I certainly don't want to find anyone's cats!

Ewwww. I didn't know it was possible to train a cat not to go on counters, I thought that was just sort of the default in cat homes that you just have to accept that they'll be anywhere and everywhere. I love animals but that's one reason I'm not a cat person. My dogs are messy too but at least they're basically confined to the floor.

I agree but that is not as bad as most people lick the spoon when they are doing stuff like stirring batter and put the spoon back in the batter or other disgusting stuff.  I was at a Christmas party once and the daughter was making some kind of cider and she was stirring it and she would taste it with the spoon she was stirring with and sip and slobber and the cider dripping back off the spoon into the pot.  Her momma thought it was funny.  I was beyond disgusting.

Another time I saw a girl (and again her mother thought this was fine and dandy) was tasting some dip and double dipping and bits of chip falling out of her mouth in to the dip and she just stirred it up like it was nothing.  I have to admit for the most part I do eat at work when they have finger foods.  I guess I don't think a lot about it.

I guess it would depend on WHO made it.

[dwiley11]

i do as long as it isn't fruit cake

[rghvac69]

If I trusted the person I would eat it.

[camellia0]

It depends on who makes it. Some people cannot cook and some people are not clean. So yeah, if I got home baked goods at work, I would nicely say that I want to share with others and leave it in the kitchen area.

[dwggs]

Yup I eat the stuff that my friends and customers bake for me.  I never actually thought about the germ aspect of it. 

[MichelleHW101]

It depends on who bakes them.  My younger brother's mother-in-law bakes awesome cookies each year and my 'second' mom is an avid baker so yes.  When they give me baked goods I eat them--sometimes by myself is they are way too good to share. 

[adriarobi]

I don't receive food gifts any more.

Depends on the source, and I always did from a trusted friend or family member.

I am going to be the one making something to give this year....fudge