Cake Tasted of Diesel ... Why?

PasturesNew

I bought a slice of cake today. It was carrot cake and looked gorgeous. Within the sponge bit there were a couple of tiny dark spots, which it was suggested by my companion might be dates. Then I bit into it. It was weird. But I had another bit, it tasted of diesel, or petrol. So I gave a bit to my companion and they screwed up their face.

I didn't eat any more.

What cooking ingredient could possibly taste of diesel/petrol?

tattoed_bum

I dont know any that taste like that yuk ,where did you get the cake from ,just wondering if it had been contaminated with machinery oil or something if it was a shop bought cake

Gingernutmeg

Sounds odd. It could have been stored in a plastic tub maybe? Sometimes when they're new they can smell really strongly and taint the food inside. Or possibly if it had nuts in, the nuts were rancid? This can taste vile. Or maybe it had been made with rancid oil, or really cheap margarine? Again, the rancid oil can taste horrible and sometimes the cheap cooking spreads can taste seriously like petrol.

PasturesNew

tattoed_bum wrote: »

I dont know any that taste like that yuk ,where did you get the cake from ,just wondering if it had been contaminated with machinery oil or something if it was a shop bought cake

A village table top sale. In the country. I wondered if they were using their own well water and it'd become contaminated.

PasturesNew

Gingernutmeg wrote: »

Sounds odd. It could have been stored in a plastic tub maybe? Sometimes when they're new they can smell really strongly and taint the food inside. Or possibly if it had nuts in, the nuts were rancid? This can taste vile. Or maybe it had been made with rancid oil, or really cheap margarine? Again, the rancid oil can taste horrible and sometimes the cheap cooking spreads can taste seriously like petrol.

It was in big plastic boxes, which did look brand new. However, I also had a slice of something else and my companion had a different cake and those were both OK. Containers all looked the same sort, so one would assume they might have been bought together, but I guess you can't tell (and I wasn't taking notes on plastic box quality/age at the time)

PasturesNew

Anyway, I didn't die .... so binned it today (kept it as evidence in case toxicology needed to know)

LJM

you should have taken it back and told them, i did this with a lemonade ice lolly a few years ago bit into it thinking it was going to taste lovely and it tasted of pure salt. we took it back to the shop where we all got free icecreams and the lollys were all removed from the freezer, dont know what ever came of it though as we moved a few days later