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To hate this smashcake craze?

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skerrywind · 09/04/2017 10:35

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?

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HoneyBeeMum1 · 13/04/2017 21:35

What do you think I am saying Lynney?

limitedperiodonly · 13/04/2017 22:14

Oh, HoneyBeeMum1, I think I see. Do you think I'm Lynney88's sock puppet?

I'm not. She thinks that what you're saying sounds like offensive, judgmental shit and I agree with her.

But do check it out with MNHQ if you want to be sure there isn't just one person who thinks that.

MrsPughSingsSleafordMods · 13/04/2017 22:37

Well this cake smash is all new to me. I'm so glad I did my child rearing before baby photoshoots like this and dressing the poor little sods up as bees etc became a thing.

p1nkflam1ngos · 13/04/2017 23:38

*Your child ordinarily has good manners. In other words, this humiliation and degradation of your child was to satisfy your weird desire to see her covered in (poo) food.

It is definitely you that needs professional help.*

Wow. Not a cake smash fan here, but you are really horrible.

I actually fancy buying a pink jammie doughnut from greggs during my lunch break tomorrow and jumping up and down on it, while imagining sweet sweet mumsnet tears.

Banananana · 14/04/2017 08:19

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gammaraystar · 14/04/2017 08:36

Wasteful and just chavvy.

Ginlinessisnexttogodliness · 14/04/2017 13:40

Ghanagirl that picture is regressive and disturbing on so many levels. You've brought a new "twist" to the great cake smash debate 😂
Eyes glazed over with sugar, stupid tutu, naff t shirt.
If we're arty ant babies doing it then the knives are really going to come out when it's one of our own

Ginlinessisnexttogodliness · 14/04/2017 13:41

Sorry meant to type if "we're nasty about babies doing this" not the gibberish that appeared

HoneyBeeMum1 · 14/04/2017 14:07

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wonderingsoul · 14/04/2017 14:23

Its not something i would do i dont think but i do think people are missing the point that it is benificial to the child.

Theyll have fun, theyll feels different textures. Tastes. Use their fine motor skills, eye and hand co rention.
Its no different to a child playing with real food at nursery in the home corner so its not a complete waste.

The expence is what i find absurd. Make one your self or get a cheap one from the shop.

Alwayshungryforcrisps · 14/04/2017 15:11

Honeybee, get over it! We understand you don't like it, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with it and your narrow mindedness is making you appear to be a horrible, moaning, ignorant person Angry

PoorYorick · 14/04/2017 16:26

Gotta say I agree. The more someone bangs on and on about something they don't like being 'common' and 'chavvy', the more they sound like a mud level social climber.

kathkim · 14/04/2017 16:28

I don't totally understand it, but I haven't been lucky enough to have a child yet. Maybe I'll do it myself one day. Maybe there'll be a new craze by then. Hard to get worked up about this tbh.

kathkim · 14/04/2017 16:31

LOL

To hate this smashcake craze?
mundoespanol · 18/04/2017 18:39

Haha, i had to google what a Smash cake is! I thought you smash the chocolate, eat the chocolate and then eat the hidden sweets and cake - i think i am wrong though if people are talking about messy, waste of food?? Confused. Some people have more money than sense!

ThreeLeggedHaggis · 18/04/2017 19:35

The "it's an educational experience" arguments have to be the stupidest ones on the thread.

And it's funny that the most passionate advocate of cake smashes on the thread, Lynney, lied about the cake being eaten. If she's so sure it's all fine and not wasteful, why did she need to lie about her cake being wasted?

If you're going to do this, at least admit you did it because you think the photos are cute and don't care about the waste. Don't claim it was to give your baby a "learning experience" and wasn't actually wasteful at all.

originalbiglymavis · 18/04/2017 19:42

What's there to learn? Chocolate stains are a bugger to get out. That's about it really.

wonderingsoul · 18/04/2017 20:15

Babies actually learn alot through it...

Just like they learn through playing with sand. Or anything tbh.

Chocolate is a bummer to get out... shaving foam how ever.. wipes right off.

Lweji · 18/04/2017 21:45

Babies actually learn alot through it...

Such as?

originalbiglymavis · 18/04/2017 22:45

That grown ups are weird. One day it's don't make a mess and play with your food, next it's here's a lively cake - shove it up your nose. Then tomorrow you get yelled at for doing the very same thing at grandma's with the cheesecake.

GattoColorCioccolatto · 18/04/2017 23:06

Cat cake smash.

To hate this smashcake craze?
wonderingsoul · 18/04/2017 23:10

They get to practise their fine motor skills.. like picking/pinching things.

They explore texture.. and taste if they eat it.

Even simple stuff as they learn if they smash some thing soft itll go splat.

Using their hand codennation to actually smash the cake..

My point is they learn that everybday with out even realising it.. so the activity isnt a bad one in itself.

PoorYorick · 18/04/2017 23:12

Chocolate is highly toxic to cats, don't let them anywhere near it.

Apocalyptichorsewoman · 18/04/2017 23:18

And doggies....

Sorry Gatto - I did lol at that picture though and sent it to oldest boy Smile

GattoColorCioccolatto · 19/04/2017 00:03

Alas PoorYorick, where is your infinite jest and excellent fancy? Where be your gibes..your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment...

It's a random photo off Pinterest to try to introduce some levity. Rather than an advert for poisoning cats and dogs.

I don't think it's even a real cake, just a tin of cat food covered in cream and gravy browning.

It's such a great face Apocalyptic, glad you liked it.

But I give up, I really do. Ah well, perhaps today something is rotten in the state of Mumsnet.