To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?

[SalemSaberhagen]

Loads of them popping up on Facebook at the moment, and I just don't get them. What's the point? When did it become a popular thing to do on a child's first birthday?

Okay. The zombie babies are definitely niche.
I have a cowboy hat the same as those balloons.
Sigh. Must stop prevaricating and go and fill the dishwasher
and eat the brie in the fridge

So where do all those crying 'Oh the food waste is obscene!', stand on, Messy play (and taking pictures), Homemade Playdough and Macaroni/Pasta pictures?

I can remember making gingerbread houses and never eating them and also blowing the inside out of eggs, but not using it, to paint, in the 70's.

I miss the totally angst free 70's.

""I have a cowboy hat the same as those balloons.""

As does anyone whose ever been to Blackpool .

Googled this - the photos made me cringe - contrived, distasteful, awfulness.

rmspecialstamps.com/##collection257

Are those what you collect limited? Henry, golden jubilee and plane architects are all on e-bay. this is why I no longer collect dated Xmas market mugs, I would get obsessed whenever I broke one

The 1990s ones kimmy but now I look at them I realise I didn't collect them all - just the ones I liked.

It got a bit mad because the Royal Mail started pumping them out and it got expensive and I didn't like them.

I used to collect stamps as a child - not seriously; just the pretty ones - but I learned that one of the signs of a banana republic was the issue of high value glossy stamps.

I'll dig out my stash of first editions. DH always used to write a special message on the cards within and seal it. I wonder what they said?

Probably: 'When can I stop doing this pointless thing that involves me buying stupid bits of paper and queueing for ages in the fucking Post Office, you mad cow?'

In my obvious vulgarity, I had a cake smash photo shoot done for my LO's first birthday. Got a giant cupcake made (gluten free too, what a cunt I am) it was beautiful.

The photos are fantastic. She didn't smash it much though. We took the cake home and ate every last bit. It tasted great.

And I'd do it again. So thrssssssssssppppppppppppp.

You're all chomping at the bit it's a trend. They've always happened, always will. It's just when you come old you start rattling on about how stupid they are and how they didn't do it in your day.

Get old, not come old

Ha ha Adele! I may be old but at least I know what "chomping at the bit" means.

I haven't heard 'chomping at the bit' for years.

If cake smashes have always happened then they have passed me by completely.

It's champing, people, not chomping

I did wonder molly I am sure my Dad used to say champing.

Grammarist says both are ok champ/chomp

You can say either. Means the same thing used in context

I never say it.