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 ...

To a mask-wearing populace purposefully engaged in the avoidance of all things breath and spit, the practice of blowing out birthday candles is an act that could turn a happy celebrant into a social ...

Talk about a birthday buzzkill. Blowing out birthday candles causes an astronomical increase in bacteria covering the cake, a new study says. This is the latest discovery from the same food safety ...

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 ...

Picture the scene in its nostalgic innocence, the way it has always been captured in photo albums and home movies: family and friends huddled together; voices raised in song; a smiling face ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- This might have you thinking twice about accepting a slice of birthday cake. A recent study by the Journal of Food Research confirms what you may already know, that blowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Per the product's website, the Top It Cake Shield was initially inspired by research spearheaded by scientists at Clemson ...

Henrico dad Mark Apelt invented the 'Blowzee,' which allows people to blow out the candles on their cake with their friends and loved ones, without spreading their germs. (Photos provided to 7News) ...

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 ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A post-COVID world is hopefully in the near future, but the virus served as a source of inspiration for a Henrico dad. He invented a new device to help stop the spread of ...

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 ...