To be sick to death of cake smashes?

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I am so sick of this strange new phenomenon. It might even be worse than baby showers, at least you don't normally get people sending a million photos of those! What a ridiculous American (no doubt) thing to do - waste of cake, fake set-up pictures, expensive clothes bought specifically to be ruined...... ok rant over!

Definitely American. Had an American friend do this for her DS’s first birthday nine years ago so it’s not a new phenomenon over there but didn’t realise people were now doing it here too. Agreed it’s a waste of good cake and also hate obviously forced photo ops with children. You know that straight after the Mum probably frantically scrubs the baby at arms length.

@Sparklingbrook I know! A lot of friends from school have done it and the kids wouldn't co-operate.

I'm not fucking surprised. Neither would I if someone was smearing cake all over me expecting me to smile

good sensory experience

I think it's good that the babies and children are making a stand against doing it by not cooperating.
If you have to smear the cake all over them yourself it's probably a sign that they aren't fussed.

We plan on doing a cake smash for DS but ONLY because we still have one tier of our wedding cake in the freezer and it's probably inedible by now.
By doing the smash it's not a total waste.

It’s been done to death. Each to their own, I’m not a huge fan of posed studio photos so I don’t get them done

What a ridiculous American (no doubt) thing to do
Yeah. They're kind of tacky, but not as tacky as that snobbery.

@Pondering1 exactly , I bet half these people saying about the waste of food have taken their babies to sensory classes where they have weekly piles of food to destroy 🙄

@lovespaniels I had a pregnancy shoot. It was very professional and definitely couldn't have been done on an iPhone! But I know what you mean and cringe when I see how much people spend on some pretty amateurish photos.

Cake smashes are weird imo. Waste of food!

@LazyLemur don’t be silly, everything American is ridiculous and tacky.

I have no doubt that it started in the US but I don’t actually know any Americans that have done this (or the hater gender reveal). It’s not my cup of tea, but I don’t really care if it makes other people happy. I see people regularly waste far more food than a one-off like this.

I'm not a huge fan of them, but the outrage they evoke around waste is wildly disproportionate in a world where ...

We regularly throw away a third of the food we buy
People merrily chuck perfectly good food on account of best before dates
Plenty of posters on this site don't bother to use up leftovers as evidenced by a recent thread
Many people won't ask for doggy bags in restaurants
BLW involves a huge amount of avoidable waste
We frequently use perfectly good food for craft activities with kids (thankfully the pasta calendar phase has abated)

In that context, I can't get too worked up about cake smashes. I presume the parents/babies enjoy the experience (if the baby is hating it then yes, that's not great).

If people focused on minimising the untouched, unopened food that that they bin weekly, that would be a better use of their energy than ranting online about this.

Actually the British version of cake smashes is awful. The ORIGINAL American version is far more simple. We just give our kids their own little cake on their 1st birthday. If they smash it, cool, if not, also ok.

I have no idea why British people have taken a lovely American tradition and ruined it. That should be the topic of this thread.

Wonder if Meghan will have one?

Also Americans don't do professional pictures and all that nonsense. A cake smash isn't an event. It's a 1st birthday and watching them eat their own little cake, which they tend to get all over themselves.

All the pomp and overkill is purely British.

How is feeding the ducks a waste of food? They eat it....

Why does everyone catalogue every event of their life with video and photos anyway.? Life is for living not a photo opportunity

Naff as hell along with babymoons, 4 day hen events and baby showers.

How is feeding the ducks a waste of food? They eat it

Depends what you feed them. Apparently bread isn't good for their health. So not a 'waste' per se, but not good.

No one mentioned bread

Anyway, it's appalling to destroy food when there are children in this country that are hungry. I couldn't be friends with someone who thought a cake smash was OK.

I couldn't be friends with someone who thought a cake smash was OK.

Yet the people you know throw away (on average) 30% of all the food they buy (just checked that stat).

And you're friends with them.

Cake smashes seem a waste to me much like gender reveal lasagnas and other gender reveal methods.

Baby photo shoots I don’t mind but why are the babies always placed in baskets, buckets or lying naked on a rug in their tummy with their hands clasped? It looks so unnatural.

Pregnancy photo shoots are kind of similar. The shots always look unnatural and I’ve yet to see one where the couple are wearing just regular clothes. The guy is always topless, the woman always wearing a bra or topless. It’s not the kind of thing you would want to hang up in your living room. Well I wouldn’t!

It doesn't affect you what other people do with their lives and their children. Get over it.

@stinkytoe my daughter's cake smash photos are hanging on my stairs...

@midnightaura we brought the cake home from our cake smash it was delicious, we also ate all of our gender reveal pizza.

gender reveal lasagnas

This one's a joke? Please tell me it's a joke.