Today, my boss brought us some small cakes from a recent trip to China. I opened mine and noticed a little foil packet wrapped with the cake, so I thought it was a powdered topping. I had a couple of bites before my coworker told me it was actually a desiccant to keep the cakes fresh. FML
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Today, my boss ate a small piece of paper off her desk, thinking it was frosting. I have to work for this woman. FML
Today, my workplace often leaves out "expired" food from the café that our department coincides with, as it is wasteful to throw away perfectly fine cuisine. I soon discovered that the inside of a seemingly normal looking cupcake was actually filled with mold when I took a large mouthful of it. FML
Today, a coworker left a chocolate cake on the "free food" table in the office. I had a slice. She's just called to ask if she left her grandmother's birthday cake at work. She made it from scratch. Now I'm baking a new cake in the office kitchen. FML
Today, I ate what was supposed to be a delicious mini powdered donut. The first one tasted funny, so I pulled out another one and realized that the powdered sugar was now in fact powdered hairy mold. Then I looked at the package and realized it was over a year and a half old. FML
Today, my coworkers surprised me with a birthday cake. It was really sweet, until I realized it was for another “Chris” who works in accounting. They only noticed after I blew out the candles. FML
Today, my sisters and I were throwing my mom a birthday party. Since I'm not good at baking, I ordered her a really nice and expensive cake. As my daughter and I were headed out the door, she told me she had added some sprinkles to make it pretty. It was the silica beads from a package. FML
Today, I learned what live maggots in chocolate cake taste like. FML
Today, I confidently told a coworker that the “surprise meeting” was obviously a birthday celebration for our boss. I even brought cupcakes. Turns out, it was a serious budget discussion. My boss stared at the cupcakes like I was making fun of him. FML
Today, there was a big cake at the office. I thought it was funny to pretend to push the cute girl in the office into it. She laughed, but then lost her balance and fell forward. Everyone saw. Turns out she’s allergic to coconut, even just the shavings on a cake, and had to go to the hospital. FML
Today, at work, a customer cried because the cake I made her was not "exactly" the same as the display. I'm the one who made the display and it was the same but the display cake had faded a bit, since it had been there for a month. I'd mentioned this to the customer when she placed the order. FML
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james_logan 19
Another one bites the dust
PhoenixChick 26
I'm actually kind of surprised that people don't know what those packets are. Lots of food comes with those little preservative packets in them, and lots of bottled medicines do as well. Heck, I've had shoes that had those tucked inside. I'm not blaming the OP, I'm just genuinely shocked that someone could go through life without running into those. For future reference: if something is sealed, and you don't know what it is- don't open and eat it.
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iiSpitMarbles 16
10/10 lol. Hope nothing too serious comes of it.
SanguineAether 8
I feel like if your coworker knew about this beforehand, they could've given ya a warning. Ya know, a good ole "Don't eat that, it's designed to make your food drier than this joke."
28actress 22
I don't see why this is getting downvoted so much
aGMAELSTR0M 10
Well now your mouth is gonna be fresh forever! Just think of all the money you'll save on toothpaste and mouthwash!
SanguineAether 8
Nah, desiccants are designed to keep food dry. More like eternal chapped lips. Would be a definite FYL.
tranced_ 45
that is why here in India we tend to use thin layer of silver on top of our sweets to keep them preserved which is apparently eatable..
SanguineAether 8
If it's actually silver, it's not good for you to ingest a lot of it. (I really don't think it's actually silver.)
PhoenixChick 26
It is real silver leaf, and it's fine. Silver is non reactive in your digestive system. It just goes right through. The only time you'd be in trouble is if you were eating big balls of the stuff and it blocked you up. Silver leaf is thin as tissue paper though.
ThrottleJockey 35
Being that silver is about $17.50 per ounce right now I'm surprised that is an economical choice of preservative. Granted, that is why silver was the metal (and then plating) of choice well up into the 1950's due to its antimicrobial properties. Silver if still used in making acupuncture needles.
PhoenixChick 26
It's usually just used now for decoration, but it was used as a preservative for special items too.
Bunnyluver 20
I believe there is more than one type of "silver". People should research stuff first, before they are so quick to put others down and be sarcastic.
Calingaladha 21
Eating copper is bad, though.
KawaiiLettuce 13
But in the slums you have to bathe and clean your clothes in the river that holds your turds :c
Tripartita 44
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
It's probably best to avoid the cake altogether. The white powder is actually a preservative, as you said, but the flour is just ground up caryopsis, or grain, which was a seed to preserve the species from which it was harvested. The milk that was taken from a cow was intended to preserve its calfs, and the eggs were chicken menstruation—failed attempts to copulate and preserve the chicken lineage. If you think about it, /all/ is preservation… Well, have a nice day!
SanguineAether 8
The same logic can be extended to all foods and to human life itself.
Tripartita 44
I covered food and human life when I said "all is preservation" in my humorous ramble.
macy1998 2
Found the vegan!
zach205 24
22 he may of mentioned both what milk was meant for and what eggs are, but he also went into flour made from wheat
epicgamer 18
I read caryopsis as carcinogen and thought op was dead.
IDontKnowaName73 17
You're on a roll with all these top comments dude
james_logan 19
Another one bites the dust
ahabsfan 15
This is why Kinder eggs are banned in the US. It all makes sense now.
armattiuzzo 16
It's actually not. The only real reason that America doesn't have them is choking hazard because of the toys inside.
ohSNAPyall 26
Those are dangerous to eat. Drink lots of water and consult your doctor.
PhoenixChick 26
I'm actually kind of surprised that people don't know what those packets are. Lots of food comes with those little preservative packets in them, and lots of bottled medicines do as well. Heck, I've had shoes that had those tucked inside. I'm not blaming the OP, I'm just genuinely shocked that someone could go through life without running into those. For future reference: if something is sealed, and you don't know what it is- don't open and eat it.
Knittedbirch 8
Don't most of them even say NOT FOOD DO NOT EAT all over the packaging? Of course, the warning would probably not be in English this time, but still, it's kind of a no-brainer.
Airbell12 11
Usually, it comes in a paper or plastic package, but this was wrapped in foil. I see how this could have happened.
CheesusTheGreat 2
Dumbass