Celtic Thunder, you made me laugh and then you made me think!
In most cases, I'm not sure that blowing out the candles results in saliva on the cake. If you take a deep breath and put your hand a few inches from your face and blow very hard as though you are blowing out candles, all you feel is air.
But let's take a scenario where someone -- a child, maybe -- does a sloppier job of blowing out the candles, lol, and it does result in some saliva on a piece of cake. The answer would be yes, you could get whatever you would ordinarily get if you kiss that person -- a cold, a flu, etc -- but only those things that would commonly be transmitted by sneezing, coughing or saliva.
Interestingly, there is a product now that shields the cake -- from this or from candle droppings or anything else. It's called Cake Guard, and it's clear plastic with holes in it. You set it on top of the cake, place candles in the holes and you're set. After the candles are lit and blown out, you lift the cake guard off the cake to cut it:
http://www.cakeguardindustries.com/index.htm
Another company is attempting to submit its version of this -- which they call the Cake Condom -- to companies for review. In addition to candles, it has snap-in holes that allow you to add decorations:
Is all this much ado about nothing? Maybe. It's much more likely that you're going to catch a cold from a grocery cart handle, in an airport or when your kid brings a bug home from school. But perhaps if you know your child has a cold when it's his or her birthday, you could take precautions to keep the germs away from your guests as much as possible.
Oh, for the days when we just cared about how much frosting was on our piece of cake!
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Celtic Thunder, you made me laugh and then you made me think!
In most cases, I'm not sure that blowing out the candles results in saliva on the cake. If you take a deep breath and put your hand a few inches from your face and blow very hard as though you are blowing out candles, all you feel is air.
But let's take a scenario where someone -- a child, maybe -- does a sloppier job of blowing out the candles, lol, and it does result in some saliva on a piece of cake. The answer would be yes, you could get whatever you would ordinarily get if you kiss that person -- a cold, a flu, etc -- but only those things that would commonly be transmitted by sneezing, coughing or saliva.
Interestingly, there is a product now that shields the cake -- from this or from candle droppings or anything else. It's called Cake Guard, and it's clear plastic with holes in it. You set it on top of the cake, place candles in the holes and you're set. After the candles are lit and blown out, you lift the cake guard off the cake to cut it:
http://www.cakeguardindustries.com/index.htm
Another company is attempting to submit its version of this -- which they call the Cake Condom -- to companies for review. In addition to candles, it has snap-in holes that allow you to add decorations:
http://emediawire.com/releases/2008/5/prweb962794.htm
Is all this much ado about nothing? Maybe. It's much more likely that you're going to catch a cold from a grocery cart handle, in an airport or when your kid brings a bug home from school. But perhaps if you know your child has a cold when it's his or her birthday, you could take precautions to keep the germs away from your guests as much as possible.
Oh, for the days when we just cared about how much frosting was on our piece of cake!
December 9, 2008 - 9:21amThis Comment
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