Today, I turned 18. My parents remembered that I loved German chocolate cake, so I awoke to a hot, fudge-filled chocolate cake with a slice cut out just for me. I've been lactose-intolerant for 8 years. As I cried, my mom handed me tissues, while eating the "Happy" part of my cake. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my parents brought me an ice cream birthday cake. I would think after 23 years they would remember my lactose intolerance. FML
Today, it was my birthday. My only birthday present was a cake that my dad bought from Walmart. Well, it sure looked tasty. The only problem: it had nuts on it. Guess what I'm highly allergic too? At least my dad told me he'd "tell me how it tastes." FML
Today, my mother turned up drunk at my house with a chocolate cake for my 14th birthday. I'm 27, I haven’t seen her in 6 years, I'm allergic to chocolate, and when she saw that I had 2 kids, she wanted to know why I'd bothered, since kids are always "such a disappointment". FML
Today, my mom told me she is serving lasagna and Italian cream cake at my bridal shower. I'm severely lactose intolerant, which I have been telling her for years. She responded by telling me, and I quote, "The food is for the guests." FML
Today, my mother in-law made dessert. It was a beautiful chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, and every other thing had chocolate in it. I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and she knows this. FML
Today, it was my 17th birthday. I didn't want my family to spend money on a cake, so my dad made this delicious apple ring. At least, it was great until my mouth began to itch and my throat closed. I have been allergic to nuts since birth, and my dad put walnuts in my birthday cake. FML
Today, it's my 18th birthday. Last month was my best friend's 18th birthday. She spent the night with me, and the next morning, my mom and brother gathered in my room and sang "Happy Birthday" as they handed her pancakes with a candle on top. Today, I was woken up by screams to take the trash out. FML
Today, I turned eighteen. Thinking I was going to get a big present from my parents on this special day, I eagerly unwrapped my present. They got me a bag of M and M's. Last year I got flannel bed sheets. FML
Today, I woke up early and spent hours baking and icing a three-tier cake for my friend's eighteenth birthday, which is this evening. I just found out my mother threw it in the compost bin because she's on a diet and it was "tempting" her. FML
Today, my family surprised me for my birthday by showing up with a chocolate cake and my ex-boyfriend from back home. They all forgot I'm allergic to chocolate, that I broke up with him about a year ago, and that he’s been trying to win me back ever since. FML
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chippa 24
OP discovered a cake that they fell madly in love with 8 or more years ago. 8 years ago, they could no longer have this cake or anything else containing dairy products. Today is their 18th birthday. Their family made OP the previously mentioned cake that OP has not been able to eat for 8 years and still cannot eat. OP cried because they can't eat this delicious birthday cake and evidently, their family doesn't know her very well. OP's mom ate a piece of the cake which had a smiley face or something on it. Do you get it now? It's not that hard to understand...
chippa 24
Dude, who cares about the aftermath, eat it anyway.
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Comments (206)
zyll 0
Eat it anyway? I mean, that's what I would do. Eh, yeah, there'll be consequences later, but it's not like you're going to be eating it daily.
chippa 24
Even so, it wouldn't be a very positive thought, so it wouldn't count for much, hmm?
Seana_fml 6
wow FYL your parents should have made you a dessert you could have somehow enjoyed. So Selfish. Sorry.
Flutist 3
Oh, wow, you overreacted. Your parents tried to do something nice for you, and you, being childish, decided that instead of looking for cures for your problem like normal adult, you would just cry because you can't have your cake and eat it too. So what? They thought of you. Some people don't even have parents, or parents who love them enough to make them a cake. Grow up. Take the lactaid and then eat all the cake you want.
popodio 0
Who cries over a cake at 18 years old?!?!?! Holy crap
popodio 0
And just because "Have your cake and eat it too" has the word cake in it, that doesn't mean it applies to the situation. LOL
Flutist 3
Actually, it does apply. She has a birthday cake but she cannot eat it. So thus, it works.
stevenmx86 8
Op is lame...cried because she couldn't eat the cake? Eat a small piece it's lactose intolerance not like it will kill you..
jmk323 0
can`t have ur cake and eat it too.. hehehe
poisoniv 4
there are pills for that dumbass.
wearinsexypants 0
1. Chocolate does not naturally contain milk. "Milk Chocolate" is not pure chocolate, milk is added. Anyone lactose intolerant can have as much chocolate as they want, if they pay attention to the additives. 2. German Chocolate Cake is a chocolate cake with a caramel coconut pecan filling, not a fudge filling. 3. Real fudge does not have dairy in it. It is made of chocolate cooked with sugar. Any fudgy substance made with dairy can easily be made with any number of substitutes, including soy milk, rice milk, or coconut milk. 4. Same goes for caramel, it is technically just cooked sugar but many caramel sauces which call for cream can be made with the aforementioned substitutes. 5. Most cake recipes do not call for milk, some call for butter, but any dairy can easily be substituted. So basically what I imagine happening here, is that OP has eaten cake with too much dairy in it, loved it, but got sick, in the past. Her parents, knowing how much she loved it, made her a cake she could eat, quite easily, so she could have the cake she loved on her birthday. OP, being a self centered, bratty baby, burst into tears at seeing the cake because she assumes that it will make her sick, not even bothering to ask. So I would say OP's life is ****** because she's so lame, not because her parents are lame.
chokeabitch 0
milk chocolate is made with powdered milk, not actual milk.