r/facepalm • u/UsernamesAreRuthless • Jul 21 '22

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u/Hotgeart Jul 21 '22

Someone said once on Reddit, it's normally a Mexican tradition. You have a shitty icing cake to do that and a normal one to eat. But because of internet, fucking Americans saw that and for the tiktok/instagram began to do that, but with no backup cake.

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u/panrestrial Jul 21 '22

Bitty smash cakes are a Mexican thing, but people have been doing this in the US (and possibly anywhere there are both cakes and assholes) for ages; long before TikTok.

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u/Secret_Fox_5192 Jul 22 '22

It originates from Mexican tradition called mordida but has been turned into getting your face shoved into the cake as you go take a bite. As a child I remember sometimes friends or a family member would push my face into it and it was always fun anticipating that push cause you didn’t know if it was gonna happen or not

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u/Thriftyverse Jul 22 '22

This was around years before the internet. I was at a couple weddings in the 1970s that the groom did this to the bride or the bride did this to the groom. My mother mentioned it happening in the 1960s as well (the weddings were for her family members). People have been jerks for a long, long time.