Shocked!

Mum is so speachless that she has to try and put it in words! The reason is that she just found out that one cannot bring a home-made cake to the kindergarten!!!
Today is Iceland's national day, and since we didn't celebrate my birthday in kindergarten, and since I've been asking when it's my turn to have a tanti auguri day there, mum asked the kindergarten-teachers if she could bring cakes for Iceland's national day so that I could have my party! Not a problem, they said. Bring a cake! So mum prepared a cake for me. Actually she prepared two, for there are many babies at the kindergarten. She made a nutritious carrot cake, with no white sugar and no butter and then she decorated it with a car and train-theme! By pure coincidence she mentioned it to a friend yesterday that she had been preparing the cakes
Oh, are you allowed to bring home-made cakes to the kindergarten? said her friend
Why not, said mum and was honestly a bit puzzled.
A call to the kindergarten this morning confirmed the fact. I'm sorry, didn't we tell you, no you cannot bring home made cakes to the kindergarten, did you already make them? said the teacher. Of course she already made them, why else would she call to ask 10 minutes before I was to leave for kindergarten? And just as good that mum found out BEFORE she actually brought them to the kindergarten!!! As mum had already mentioned to me that I would have a cake at kindergarten she couldn't just skip the whole thing as she was tempted to do, and was forced to go to the bakery to buy a cake. Maybe if mum had known before, she could have chosen a bakery or ordered a cake that was suitable for kindergarten, but instead we had to buy a cake selecting from those on display. So, rather than a nutritious carrot cake I brought two uninspiring pasta frolla and crostata with jam on top.... loads and loads of butter and white sugar and nothing at all to indulge the babies' fantasy. But the cakes are GUARANTEED, they are of KNOWN ORIGIN and so the director of the kindergarten can safely feed the kids with it.

My mum was a bit shocked, a bit sad and very very sorry, and she can't help but asking herself WHY it is not allowed to bring home-made cakes to the kindergarten!

Have there been many cases where babies have got food-poison from eating home-made cakes?
I can't remember hearing about it -and that kind of thing is bound to make the headlines!

Is it so that the parents cannot deliberately add poison to the food (as if the couldn't add it to a bought cake if they wanted!). I can't remember hearing about that kind of thing either, but we have become so terrified of just about anything that it wouldn't surprise mum if there was a mention of cakes and kindergarten in the anti-terrorist laws!

Searching for the answer on internet, mum found two contrasting information, both from ASL (the local sanitary agency), one that says that cakes brought to kindergarten have to be preconfectioned or made by bakeries that follow the hygenie-standards and the receipt has to be shown to proof their origin (my ass!). The other encourages parents to give babies home-made cakes rather than commercial ones. So parents are encouraged to risk to poison only their own kids but contibute to fattening and making the life of other kids if not slightly poorer -at least from the fantasy point of view! No wonder that many italian kids seem to grow up with commercial merendina and snacks, that birthday-parties are thrown in pizzerias or at MacDonalds (would parents have forbidden their kids to come to my birthday-party if mum made a cake for it -I wonder). Mum always thought she could blame all this on too little time, too busy parents...but now she has to rethink it all!
As you might guess, mum is eating the cake right now (the one that she didn't freeze for later use) -can I please ask you to check on her soon to see if she is still OK!