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 ...

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 ...

A certain viral video may have brought it to your attention that blowing out candles on a birthday cake might be gross, but ...

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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 ...

A great-grandmother celebrates her 102nd birthday -- and that's plenty newsworthy -- but something else happened at her birthday party that has this video going viral. Louise Bonito blew her dentures ...

What began as a sacred ritual has become one of the world’s most widespread party traditions. From moonlit offerings in Greece to protective spells in medieval Europe, birthday candles once carried ...

It’s funny how so many entitled people think the world revolves around their children. So, what would you do if you were celebrating your birthday at a restaurant and a random mom marched over and ...

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 ...