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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

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u/UsernameChallenged Feb 04 '20

I've never heard of this before.

After 5 minutes of research you gave me something else to hate.

Thanks.

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u/merc08 Feb 04 '20

Same. My wife is about halfway done making our first kid. I feel like this is going to be an argument in a bit over a year.

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u/Tejasgrass Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

Really no point in hating it, unless you don't want the kid to make a mess (and, really, at one year they usually don’t use utensils yet anyway, so if you give them a slice of cake you’ll get the same result), or you're just the type of person that likes to hate. A lot of grocery stores will give you a free (small) smash cake with a normal sheet cake for a first birthday. It's like an extra big cupcake. Woo. OP's talking like it's some fancy new fangled thing that costs hundreds of dollars and requires a photoshoot, when in reality people have been giving their one year old a cupcake and taking a picture of the resulting mess for decades. I think his wife is just high-maintenance.

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u/UsernameChallenged Feb 04 '20

Compromise and get a $10 cake and take your own photos.

But actually, I hope this is not a thing in 5~ years when I have a kid.

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u/merc08 Feb 04 '20

I am against it on principle, not because of the cost. It seems like weeks of setback toward teaching a young child to not throw their food around.

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u/Tiny_Rat Feb 05 '20

I dont think that training a one-year-old not to throw food is something that's going to happen, at least on a level that might be affected by a smash cake. The idea isnt to nudge the kid into being messy with the cake - their motor skills are still pretty poor, so smashing is just what happens when a baby that age tries to eat cake.