Blowing out birthday candles is an age-old tradition, but it's something that's more likely to make people cringe than cheer in the age of COVID-19. Thanks to the pandemic, we've all become a lot more ...

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 ...

Just about everything has changed during the novel coronavirus pandemic, including the way that we celebrate birthdays; some are lucky to host intimate celebrations outside in a backyard or an empty ...

Blowing out birthday candles is fun, but your spit is the icing on the cake — quite literally. Scientists say that puckering up and making a wish sends varying amounts of bacteria flying onto your ...

Reporting from San DiegoReporting from San Diego — Old traditions die hard so it remains to be seen if a new study that showed that blowing out birthday cake candles makes for germy frosting will ...

BE A BAD IDEA. >> YOU MAY THINK TWICE BEFORE EATING A SLICE OF BIRTHDAY CAKE IF SOMEONE DID THIS. >> MAKE-A-WISH. >> WOULD YOU WANT SOMEONE YOU’RE SITTING DOWN TO EAT LEAN OVER AND BLOW ON YOUR PLATE ...

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 ...

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I can identify the exact moment when my relationship with birthday cake changed forever, and it was last week, when I read a study titled “Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a ...

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 ...