I was also thinking wax droplets or something…but you can see if a cake’s had candles usually.
That wouldn’t make sense though, because that’s the norm in most families.
You’ve never heard of co-sleeping?
Since your stomach acids have been working on it, it’s probably safer to eat. I mean, re-eat.
I can has cheezy poops?
Thanks. That was kinda my point, but I haven’t seen the show so I didn’t know what it said about plain old non-exhaled-on cake. I’m with **scumpup **- let the OCD/germaphobes do what they want; it leaves more cake for me! Who wants sterilized cake anyway?
Okay, I would eat sterilized cake, too.
Reminds me of the time my son took a mouthful of soup, then put it back in the bowl because it was too hot. No one said anything until after his grandma had finished it for him. 
Yep. Boyo Jim was asking because he wondered how they could even have children or sleep together if they are that worried about germs. kittenblue answered that yes, they do both, not that the kids sleep with them.
See, I’d eat cake that a friend had blown on (unless I knew he had hepatitis or something, as previously mentioned), but a kid? Oh no. Kids are filthy.
I just think of it as encouragement to stay on my healthier eating plan. 
There is no fucking way to avoid all germs. Even if you live in a plastic bubble, you got all sorts of germs inside you.
Stressing out over germs will kill you faster than 99% of any germ will.
Think surface area, people. If the birthday boy or girl has been a bit exuberant in their candle blowing, simply take a knife and slice the top layer of frosting off.
Geesh.
NNNNOOOOOOO!
Better to slice the child’s head off so it doesn’t ruin the cake!
What if I’m stressing out over finding only 1% remaining in my punctured knapsack of C. Botulinum? Eh? Figure that one out, math whiz!
Actually, Number One Nephew thinks outside is icky and is much more interested in his electronic games and doodads. I figure, in about 10 years, he’ll be posting quips on the 'Dope.
However, even he’ll eat cake his brother has gotten to. 'Cause, hey, cake!
Now that was a good answer!
Well, I wouldn’t want people going around gratuitously blowing over *everything *I ate, but that doesn’t translate to freaking out over a piece of birthday cake. I agree that’s crossing over into OCD territory.
THis reminds me of a wonderful bit in Ralph Leighton’s book Tuva or Bust about traveling via train through the old Soviet Union to get to Tuva. The train chambermaid brought them glasses of sweetened tea, and later he looked to see how she washed the glasses. She just swished them in warm water - pretty much the ideal medium for bacterial growth. The end result? Everyone had a mild sore throat then was perfectly fine the rest of the trip. Not being germophobic provided them with an inoculation against anything they were likely to encounter on the rest of their trip.
To speak in my defense - I did say that I’ll eat the cake; I’m just uncomfortably aware of a kind of icky thing.
I’m certainly aware that germs are everywhere, and I’m equally aware, as I imagine most people with similar hangups are on some level, that it’s completely irrational. It makes less sense than my irrational phobia of open water. No matter how picky I am about food I consume and how frequently I wash my hands, I’m still deluged by viruses and bacteria and other people’s skin cells and various other foreign bodies. I know that nothing can change that, and that the chances of anything remotely unpleasant happening because of it is minimal, but there’s the human brain for you: illogical and rather ridiculous. I know it’s stupid, but I still can’t shake the “eewwww” feeling.
I would not eat birthday cake that was blown on by:
-people with communicable diseases
-animals
-Hitler
Any other cake is welcome in my belly.
Ask your SIL if she eats peanut butter.
:dubious: I worked in pediatrics for years and had colds all the damned time. I’ve been pretty healthy (WRT bacteria/viruses) ever since getting out of that department. I’m not crazily anti-germ but since I’ve worked with a lot of patients with compromised immune systems, I’ve tried to be careful with hand-washing and following other workplace precautions. It’s all well and good to claim that you need to challenge your immune system, but at some point you might well screw over someone who can’t afford that.