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To be sick to death of cake smashes?

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Noteventhebirdsareupyet · 29/01/2019 08:45

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!

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myhamsteratefreddiestarr · 30/01/2019 18:13

I don't like them either OP. Last thing I would have wanted when DC was little , would be to have them covered in sticky cake and cream. and I am not a fussy person either, lol. It just seems pointless to me.

BirthdayKake · 30/01/2019 18:17

We're having a gender reveal party. After a miscarriage, and now shitty ongoing morning sickness, I wanted something to plan and distract me.

Also, this baby will be the fourth in a row of the same sex. I want people to know how special he/she is and how happy we are to be having another of the same sex will probably still get the crap comments anyway

sunshine11 · 30/01/2019 18:20

Surely gender reveals are to be outlawed for fear of being transphobic?!

orangecushion · 30/01/2019 18:23

small children dressing up and destroying food, its absolutely vile.

ReanimatedSGB · 30/01/2019 18:25

I don't like this either. I'm not often a funsponge, but I find deliberatly wasting and ruining food distressing.

LadyRochfordsIcedGusset · 30/01/2019 18:27

It's not even the small children, most don't know what's going on and are being instructed by their parents.

The few I've seen the children look utterly bewildered to begin with.

BlueJava · 30/01/2019 18:29

I had to google "adult cake smash" - weird! Never heard of it. If I have a cake I just eat it, usually with coffee. I can't say I've ever thought of taking my photo eating it. :)

lily2403 · 30/01/2019 18:29

Scroll past them then.

Sick to death of people moaning over petty things that have nowt to do with them Hmm

Gingerkittykat · 30/01/2019 18:32

I've never seen a kid dressed up for a cake smash, they have always just been in a nappy. Ruining good clothes would annoy me more than wasting cake.

LadyRochfordsIcedGusset · 30/01/2019 18:41

Scroll past then lily Wink.

beela · 30/01/2019 18:43

I think purposefully wasting food in a country where people still go hungry and a world where many are undernorished and plenty starve is a bit fucking sick, tbh.

This ^^

It's true that people in general throw away too much food food, but they don't buy it just to throw it away, it's down to poor planning. A cake smash is deliberate.

Very naff.

MarvellousMonsters · 30/01/2019 18:44

I don’t like the mess & waste of cake! Seems like pointless to me.

Passenger42 · 30/01/2019 18:48

It’s immoral considering there are collections for food kitchens as people can’t afford basics so go to a party to destroy food, is just wrong: I would rather give a cake to a school or playgroup and imagine the happy faces at break time:

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 30/01/2019 18:54

Absolutely pointless and tacky.

Rosehip10 · 30/01/2019 19:01

Cake smashes are simply vulgar.

LittleMissPonsible · 30/01/2019 19:10

I just searched on Pinterest for adult cake smashes. Dear Lord. It’s all 30 year old woman dressed as toddlers with tutus and little t shirts with their age on, waving cake smeared hands and swigging from bottles of Prosecco. Mad.

Streamside · 30/01/2019 19:12

Just think how it is for a photographer who's asked to do these. Often the baby doesn't even understand it, doesn't want their hands dirty etc

planespotting · 30/01/2019 19:20

@fancynancyclancy 😱😱😱😱

PooleySpooley · 30/01/2019 19:24

I hate this, I hate baby showers, I hate over the top hen dos, I hate professional photo shoots after a baby is born.

I am a grumpy bitch and I don’t care.

I hate this celebrity age of intramural where everything is done to show off.

PooleySpooley · 30/01/2019 19:24

*Insta

FuzzyShadowChatter · 30/01/2019 19:35

I know Brits who were doing this 11 years ago when my second was turning 1. It was very popular among a lot of mums in the baby group then.

It's social media in origin and has just gotten bigger and more ridiculous and about the right image of parenting over time. It's pretty much nothing like the 'put a small cake in front of a baby and take photos of the results on their first birthday' that has likely been done on some regions on both sides of the Atlantic for quite some time.

KissingInTheRain · 30/01/2019 19:44

PooleySpooley

You are not alone.

Pinkerbells · 30/01/2019 19:44

Try being a cake maker lol! You are creating something beautiful to be smashed up by a very small child!!!!! LovelyHmm

Pigflewpast · 30/01/2019 19:50

We were given a photography session when our eldest was a baby. I’ve never seen a 9 month old do a “wtf?” expression like the one she had when they sat her in a big flowerpot, it was brilliant, the photo still makes us laugh 20 yrs later!
I’m on a fb photography page which has mostly Americans on it and I cringe daily at the posed pregnancy, newborn, cake smash, senior shoot, family shoot, and the absolute gem of boudoir shoots.

orangecushion · 30/01/2019 20:02

scroll past seems to be the answer to everything.

What can possibly be right about encouraging small children to destroy something nice and waste food?

Really I am curious to know.

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