8 Baby Shower Foods People Secretly Hate

This dessert goes from adorable to straight-up traumatizing (especially for the mama-to-be) the second someone takes out the cake server. Especially if it's red velvet cake. 

Nothing says, "It's a boy!" quite like the "It's a boy!" bunting and stork signs taped to every nonmoving surface at a baby shower, but Cookie Monster-blue buttercream is a close second. However, when people avoided grabbing a batch of cupcakes at a party recently, we learned an important fact: Fear of Blue Mouth* is real. 

*That's the official term for that moment when you bite into a food coloring-rich frosting and your teeth, gums and tongue are instantly stained, making it look like you went savage on Smurf Village.

It's the dish a helpful great aunt makes for every party that everyone gets guilted into grabbing a scoop of. Don't be that great aunt. 

Mothers-to-Be, please take note: If you ask your BFF, Mom or whoever's hosting your party to make those super-cute cake pops you saw on Pinterest that only take, like, 6 hours and 23 ingredients to make, that person will do it for you—because you're about to experience the miracle of birth (and the pains of shoving a human through your hoo-ha). But make no mistake: He or she may be silently cursing your name when it's 3 a.m. and your pal's struggling to sculpt a baby carriage out of a watermelon. 

Yes, you'll be changing a lot of diapers in your future, but why—for the love of Huggies, WHY?!—must you torture your closest friends and family by forcing them to eat treats that look like sh*t?! Isn't that the sort of thing you'd typically reserve for your worst enemies?!

You know what's even more appealing and loaded with way more flavor? Eating spoonfuls of mayo straight out of the jar. Plus, there's less prep involved.