To hate this smashcake craze?

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A close member of our family has just spent £100 on a smashcake for her 1st baby's birthday.
I find it quite disgusting to waste food like this. It surprises me that I have quite a gutteral reaction to this. I also find it disgusting to see people in baths of beans etc.

Anyone else feel like this or am I just a killjoy?

lynne you sound perfectly reasonable and I'm glad you enjoy life rather than analyzing and overthinking every single thing.

At parties, I find the sandwiches are usually wasted as kids are not remotely interested in them. Cake? Not so much.

LaurieMarlow Great mini lecture. I think you're doing a bit of your own virtue signalling here speaking foe the few on this thread that you've accused of hypocrisy when you know nothing about their approach to waste.
Furthermore, the discussion on wastefulness really only came about as the OP herself was extolling the virtues of self sufficiency and in a roundabout way offsetting her own green mini print against the profligacy of the said cake smash.
She in fact made that sideways discussion possible.

Ginliness, I hardly think so. Waste has been a constant topic since the start of the thread.

If you don't indulge in any of the behaviours I listed, then consider yourself exempt and feel free to judge away. I'd hazard that only a very tiny minority genuinely don't do any of those things.

I wonder how many here having a go at Lynney think the same about the decorative 'salad' served up with meals in restaurants or sandwich bars that never gets eaten? Or the decorative ice sculptures at weddings or corporate parties?

A few cakes seems not to be a huge thing really.

Not chavtastic. Usually the baby has a bow tied round it's head!

Laurie, my comments about waste re the cake were a sarcastic aside to a specific commentator as they were for many on here I suspect. lynney set herself up for it really didn't she with the whole milking my own gas and recycling my toothpaste malarkey.

It doesn't really warrant a lecture on the waste crisis.

Milking my own goats not gas. Significantly different one more lethally so than t'other

Why's it middle class criticise this trend?

It doesn't really warrant a lecture on the waste crisis

My comments don't have anything particularly to do with Lynney and I'm not sure why you think they do.

'Waste' has been a running theme of this entire thread. My post was about general double standards.

Chardonnay yes I know it is but they aren't my dogs so therefore I don't have a say in anything that goes on in their lives. I don't agree with it just saying there was no waste.

For goodness sake smearing a cake over their face is a completely different experience to smearing poo over their face and even that is a learning experience yet we all learn from our mistakes.

The Asda cake has instructions for how to serve that make it seem more civilized. I saw one in Marks today that looked too nice to be smeared anywhere.

Feeding poison to dogs makes you feel better about not 'wasting' your daughter's birthday cake?

You truly are the gift that keeps on giving lynney.

FFS, trying to justify this hideous smash thing as a "learning experience" just takes the biscuit.

The more I think of it the contrived aspect bothers me as much as the wanton waste. "Let's dress child up as a mermaid!" #makingmemories "Let's get a special outfit, and a cake, and a bow, and a photographer!!" #makingmemories It's like those bloody awful baby photo shoots where the baby is in a plant pot or something. It's not cute, it's not #makingmemories, it's #tacky and #unneccessary.

What ever happened to mum snapping away in the corner with no studio, no props, no backdrop. Just kids being kids.

The Asda cake has instructions for how to serve that make it seem more civilised.
Because it's a smash cake not a cake smash. The two are different things.

The pictures upthread look like every other cake smash pictures. All cake and background. It's probably a beautiful baby but the focus isn't on her, it's on pink and cake, seems a shame to me. Same as those uncomfortable looking newborn set ups it looks like every picture is the same baby.

Sorry but that kid looks like it's covered in shit.

Honeybee they weren't my dogs. If it were my dogs they wouldn't have gotten it. 😂😂

Spiteful If your child's shit is that shade I suggest you take IT to the doctor.

Anyone else at the M&S cake cutting instructions?

Remove packaging.
Place on flat surface.
Cut into slices using a sawing motion.

Who needs these instructions?

Clean blade between slices. - this is the thread that keeps on shocking.

I didn't know she was going to feed them you tottie!

How do you know she fed them?

And I don't stand idly by and allow harm to any living creature I am on of the very few that have called RSPCA and social services when things have been horrendous for animals and children alike.

You don't know me and you are an extremely judgemental person. My children are clean, fed, well looked after and achievers . I work hard to provide for my children even through a very debilitating illness.

I am a strong independent woman and would never put someone down over their choice of photo shoot.

If you don't like something simple say so. Do t go around calling people's children IT or say they look gross or even say your child is beautiful but...

Talk about my being uncivilised for ONE PHOTOSHOOT? Maybe have a look in the mirror and judge yourself on your overanalytical, anal retentive lifestyle!

Because I asked her what she did with the cake (thinking compost) and she said she did (we were friends at the time).

What does it matter now and what's with the 5000 questions. I've told you what happened, I LOVE the pictures and I'll always remember it. And that's what matters!