Posted on 07/28/2017 3:44:37 PM PDT by SMGFan
When celebrating birthdays, blowing out a cake full of candles and singing a public domain song is a time-honored tradition. Yet has it ever occurred to you that this ritual means that the birthday celebrant is just blasting spit over the candles and the top layer of the cake? Well, now it has.
The Journal of Food Research in Canada recently published a study, which we learned about from The Atlantic, that will make every celebration that you’re part of seem just a little more gross. Logically, some saliva must end up on cakes when you blow out candles, but the daughter of Paul Dawson, a professor at Clemson University, wondered how much more.
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I wouldn’t touch a piece of spit blown birthday cake if you put a gun to my head.
My BIL’s girlfriend showed us a better way.....WAVE A PAPER PLATE OVER THE CANDLES......No spitting involved!!!
Oh, yea, you’re right. He is gonna miss a piece of crappy cake with some kids spit all over it. One of the best things in life. /s
My 1st thought.Got to build up those anti bodies, so start young
“We were so poor, in our Christmas tree, we had no tinsel. We used to wait for Grandpa to sneeze.” - Rodney Dangerfield
Thought that was just gas. Thanks for sharing.
Uh, no. Its more like having someone else’s kid blow his nose on your steak.
There are a number of things I was thinking about besides cake.
I don’t think you have to worry about them.
Well...good lookin’ girl germs are okay.
Iffin that’s whatcha mean... :>)
But when you clap your hands over a cake, you get your filthy, diseased skin cells and perspiration all over the candles and top layer of frosting. I hope you washed your hands first.
What if you blow out the cake candles with a fart, does the flame neutralize the fart???
I suppose if you blow out the candles with a fart, the hot wicks will kill off the E. Coli, C. Diff and other germs that make it through your clothes, should you be wearing any at the time.
DANG!
Yes, I was thinking along those curves. I mean lines.
No, the smell is from VOCs which are molecules, not particles.
When I’m 90, I’m gonna insist 90 candles be placed on the cake so I can spend half an hour trying to blow them out. It’ll be all mine by then.
Is why you put a number candle on a cup cake and not the cake
I’ve been the in same room as Bob Goldthwait AND Gilbert Gottfried.
You can’t scare me.
Good one!
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