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Duff Goldman Licks Fingers, Serves Cake On The View
Published on: November 13, 2009 – 12:15 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Duff made an appearance on The View this morning to present a birthday cake to Whoopi Goldberg. He cut a piece of cake for Whoopi, and instead of using a napkin to clean his hands, spent the next several seconds licking and sucking the icing off of his fingers. We watched in disgust and horror as he then cut slices for a few other people… using those same spit-covered fingers to transfer the cake to their plates.
We understand icing is yummy and all, but come on. This is just gross. I’d expect to see this sort of cake handling technique from a 12 year old cutting cake at their birthday party, but from a “professional” baker? Yikes.
I’ll take “HOW SWINE FLU SPREADS”
for $1000 please, Alex.
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OK, that is gross. But what I wanna know is, why is he wearing that do-rag? Is he going out with Hulk Hogan later?
It’s a backwards baseball cap.
A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), I used to bake and decorate cakes professionally. Licking ones fingers is a habit you learn pretty darn fast to break if you want to stay in the biz.
So this shows me he’s not a professional. It also adds another stone on the pile that will eventually bury Doucheman for putting knuckleheads on FN.
Sucking his middle finger makes it even more gross!
OMG. I just noticed the ratty old jeans he’s wearing. With the baseball cap on backwards, makes me wonder if he’s in direct competition with the king of doucheness Ferry-boy?
Quick question for anyone who saw this episode. Someone please explain why the cat was a part of the cake? How does it relate to Whoopi?
PS. That cake looks disgusting. I’ll never understand why people buy cakes from them. It looks so dry and inedible.
Reminds me of an overgrown mall rat.
Am I surprised Goldman licks his fingers like an uncouth cretin ? No. Just look at how unhygienic his bakery is. Nobody wears gloves, they rub the fondant excessively with bare hands (buy a sheeter like Valastro did )and laugh spittle over their cakes caused by guffawing over Manthorne’s dry wit.
Gives real bakeries a bad rap.
What a dirty basterd!
Whoopi has a cat, she’s shown pics of it on the show.
Eww. Crass and classless, just like Pauler. The View crew got themselves exposed to all sorts of FN cooties recently, eh?
I can’t even express how disgusted I am just looking at these pics. He should’ve just licked the knife while he was at it.
Wow. That is disgusting. I don’t get the fascination with these cake shows. They don’t make food–they make sculptures.
Yuck.
Maybe Barbara Walters will catch swine flu and they can blame Goldman because the ignoramus excessively licked his fat stubby fingers.
Oh nice look Duff, with the backwards ball cap. Wannabee loser.
I posted about that in the forum right as I was watching it. It was SO GROSS. He wheeled in that cart with the cake on it and just slobbered all over his hands then put cake on them. I kept wondering if he’d even washed his hands since arriving at the studio.
What did they say about the cat? Someone asked if it was edible and Duff said yes and then they asked what it was made out of but he hemmed and hawed and didn’t answer but pretty much just said he didn’t mean for the cat to be eaten because if you’re a pet owner you don’t want to eat your cat etc.
The thing that shocks me is that the co-hosts were actually eating the licked finger cake … ewww. Where’s Kathy Lee when you need her, based on her reaction to Paula Deen coughing on her hand and then trying to slice a ham I doubt she’d have let Duffy slide on this. I’m surprised none of the very vocal women on The View didn’t speak up.
I am not a fan of Duff and company. I’ve watched in the past (which may make me a hypocrite lol) and very few if any of the cakes impressed me … some of them I felt sorry for the people forking over big bucks for the cakes (all the more so now, can you imagine, if he licks his fingers and serves cake on national tv to the cast of The View, what does he do when the cameras are not rolling … double ewww)
VOM.
Didn’t Pauler Deen lick her ham hands excessively when she was last on The View serving food? What is with these people?!?!
That just makes me sick! I was stunned when Paula said she will use every dish and utensil in the kitchen just to make a PB&J. I will too! Plus I run with the OCD thing washing my hands.
What’s up with the color of that cat? He looks like he was asphyxiated days ago!
Eww, eww, ewwwwwww GROSS. I couldn’t eat it after that. I have this thing about other peoples’ spit on things. Back when I was a kid, nothing grossed me out more than when a teacher handed out tests or worksheets and licked her fingers every couple of sheets to pass them out so your paper had a big, wet glob of teacherspit on it. Frankly, watching other people brush their teeth makes me gag. He obviously didn’t bother to try to hide it. This ain’t KFC – I don’t need to know if you think it’s finger-lickin’ good.
Thanks for explaining the cat thing Sandra. I was genuinely confused about it. And Whoopi’s a cat lady?? Ewwwww. Never would’ve guessed. I like her a little less now. (Cats really gross me out)
that’a so bad! I am so careful myself when I am serving for a crowd not to double dip, use my finger, etc…and I’m not a professional! how can he miss that stuff?
It is disgusting. Someone should call the health board and file complaints against his shop. Just like one of the above posters asked: what is he doing in his shop when cameras aren’t there? Gag. Incredibly tactless, offensive, unproffessional and disturbing. He ought to be ashamed but I doubt he’s smart enough for that.
Blob and Susie won’t see anything wrong with this. Since he was hired for FN under their watches, he can do no wrong. Ugh, please. Bring on the Cooking Channel.
Alex!! My friend!!! Do you really think that the Cooking Channel is going to be better than FN? It’s the same production idiots as FN. Nah. It’s gonna be more of these same caliber meatheads.
@Byrdie: Oh, good Lord no. I meant that I’m sick of the meatheads on FN, and I’m waiting for new ones on the Cooking Channel.
Ace of cakes might be the most uninteresting show on the FN.
Disgusting.
Ok, Alex. I get it. You just want a fresh supply of goobers!! Well, if nothing else, you can’t buy that kind of material for snarking here! It will be like fresh blood!! LOL!!
OMG – so for those of us who have dabbled in the food industry and been subjected to local Health and Safety Regulations, this is disgusting.
I don’t want your saliva or blood anywhere near the stuff I eat ! OK dude?
What a pig!
@Byrdie: That’s right! :) Jillian may need a Scripps Networks Humor.
Licking fingers is bad enough, but Duff and his staff look so dirty you just know there’s a good amount of body/head scratching going on with that fondant rolling. Just sayin’.
I used to be amazed by the cakes that Duff and his crew made. But then after awhile I started realizing a lot of their cakes arent that impressive. They are often very sloppy and dont really look like what they are trying to make. And they leave me wondering if the people who get the cakes really are “wowed” or just hiding how underwhelmed they are.
Duff would be out of business if it weren’t for something called Fondant.
Has anyone here, in the entire history of the show, actually seen someone who got a duff cake say:
“It’s delicious!”
Nope. Its all fondant shaped it silly shapes.
Ive never seen the people actually eat the cake.
They just stare at it.
Would be hard to eat mouthfuls of fondant, styrofoam and dowels.
Youd need a map to navigate where the actual cake is.
This is why I’ve come to seriously hate Ace of Cakes. Ignoring that only like 30% of the cake is ever edible (the rest is wood, metal and styrofoam, though I guess the percentage is a little higher if you consider fondant ‘edible’), who the hell wants to eat a cake that they’ve been touching with their bare hands for hours? You know they’re probably scratching themselves the entire time, it’s hella disgusting.
Plus, like Simpfan said, when you get over “ooo, they made a boat out of cake!” you realize a lot of their details are ridiculous juvenile. Their paintings are pretty good, but when they sculpt people out of the things it looks like a 1st grader’s drawings. I prefer Cake Boss because they at least try to make it look a tiny bit realistic.
Paula Deen did the same thing.
My dad does that. It’s disgusting.
With all the national appearances that Duff has gotten lately, I wonder if FN isn’t trying to position him for “bigger and better” things ala Rachel Ray.. If so – some advice to the Duffster, “Hey shithead! People HATE guys that wear baseball hats backwards. Especially on national TV on shows give them no context. You look like a guy trying desperately to hide his receeding hairline – yes thats right – we all know what you’re up to… For the love of Jesus H, STOP!”
Food Network must be so proud to have not one, but two, “chefs” who have absolutely no qualms about licking their fingers and then touching and passing food around to others. Wonder if these same two “chefs” wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Appalling!!!
My husband is too frustrated to watch his cake show any longer. He screams “Eat that fondant. How does it TASTE. I wanna see someone EAT IT. Cut it. Eat it. What happened to butter cream!!!”
speaking of Cake Boss, I saw a few episodes for the first time on Saturday and I love it! Buddy is a real baker and makes beautiful REAL cakes and baked goods that you actually want to eat (unlike the Duffster and crew). And I bet that Buddy would never lick his fingers and then serve the cake!
Amen to all of these comments. Licking fingers is beyond repulsive. Does he even have a food handler permit? Someone check with the health dept. in Baltimore and get back to us. And please lose the stupid backward hat. Now I know where the term “asshat” came from. How freakin’ old is this doofus, anyway?
And I bet he doesn’t wash after going to the bathroom. YUCK!!!
Ok, finger licking aside, I think this should be said. You usually don’t see people eat the fondant because they don’t. In most cases when the cake is elaborate and structured, you get separate sheet cakes that are made for eating. The fondant covered wood and metal supported pieces are just for show.
“Hey folks, here’s your cake. How about a side of Hepatitis to go along with it?”
Ug.
They play with the fondant like it’s playdoh yes with no gloves, wonder how this gets them more business. However it does look fun to work there…
I AM SOOOO SICK OF ALL THE RE-RUNNIES ALL THE TIME OF ALL THE WORST SHOWS! just had to get that out…
LoL he was probably high as the hindenberg! you just know the guys on that show are out behind the building smoking out most of the time and letting the girls do all the work!
I doubt some spit will stop Sherri and Whoopin from stuffing their faces. The food section of the view is always a real treat when Whoopi and Sherri are mowing down anything and everything on the table. Do those two eat at home? They act like they are starving!
I have noticed over and over on the Food Network a trend of chefs licking their fingers and then handling food – and often not just licking the tips of their fingers, but shoving the whole finger in their mouths up to knuckle. The level of disgusting, unsanitary actions I have witnessed on TFN really creeps me out.
DUD DOLDRUM is the ASS OF CAKES
The concept of the show just seems strange. Duff went to pastry school, borrowed some money from his dad and hired his friends to work for him?
So with no experience anywhere, with nothing except daddy’s pockets, Duff thought he could play with the big boys. And then he lands a tv show out of that? Now he’s playing off his 15 minutes with $1000.00 minimum cakes?
Ironically, the show is becoming more about the events the cakes are being made for, than the cakes themselves.
Maybe he got lessons from my sister in law.
Wow, really unbelieveable that he did that. It’s definitely one of the more gross things out there.
I enjoy Duff’s show, but I wouldn’t have bought a cake from them (too expensive and too underwhelming) and now I definitely never will.
How did I miss this?
Gross. The man not only looks like an ape, but acts like one too. How do I know he’s not scratching his balls and then rolling fondant in his shop if he’s doing this on national television?? Sucking the frosting off his fat, sausage-like fingers like Pauler licks butter off her ham hands… ugh!