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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can only imagine the social anxiety experienced by people who think about whether it is trashy or tacky to give a kid cake to smash on their birthday.[/quote]

Uhhh... What?[/quote]

Judgments about trashiness/tackiness are really judgments about social position. To me, thinking about the social implications of your child's reaction to cake is like thinking about plucking your baby's eyebrows.[/quote]

You are missing to point, PP - I'm sure no one is thinking about the baby's reaction or damage to his social standing!  [b]I wouldn't give my baby a roasted turkey to drool on and throw on the floor for his first Thanksgiving either - no matter how cute the photographs of a baby and a 14 pound roasted turkey were.  It is a waste of food. [/b]

And as a PP pointed out, not the intent of a birthday cake anyway.    [/quote]

No dear, you are missing my point. We have a word for this: "wasteful."  But OP didn't talk about how wasteful she finds the tradition. She talked about how tacky/trashy/tasteless she finds it.  We get that YOU find it wasteful, but that was not what OP said.[/quote]

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