Ah, birthdays: the best day of the year, when you get to spit all over a cake baked in your honor and force all of your closest friends to eat it with a smile on their faces. Then, a few months back ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Maybe you should make another wish the next time you have birthday cake -- that your guests won't get sick. A new study says blowing out those candles on the birthday cake ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- You may want to rethink accepting a slice of cake after the birthday boy or girl blows out the candles. A recent study, "Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on ...

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As a small child, I remember attending other children’s birthday parties at our local roller rink or McDonald’s and thinking, “Eww, I don’t want to eat that cake that some other kid essentially just ...

Mitt Romney said he blew out each candle one by one because he was sick. Happy birthday, even if it’s not today! Whether you go for traditional candles, sparklers or those tricky ones you can’t blow ...

Those colorful candles burning brightly atop a birthday cake may look lovely, but apparently blowing them out has some pretty disgusting side effects, researchers say. A study in the Journal of Food ...