Christmas Cake

Just worked today. In Japan around Christmas time you can find every pastry shop and combini selling Christmas cakes. Usually they are pretty expensive but you can find them for 300 yen at a combini. Anyhow it's just cake with strawberries and cream. It's not that great but if someone offers it to me, I'll eat it.
The best thing about Christmas cake is that it's a term which applies to unmarried women older than 25 years old. Christmas cake may well be sweet and delicious, but no one really wants any after the 25th. So, if you're an unmarried Japanese woman, after the age of twenty five, you're in extreme danger of becoming a Christmas Cake. It's just funny... and true.
It's kinda crazy though cause it creates a pressure for women to get married before that age or they feel they will be single for life. This perception is starting to change and many young Japanese don't follow or believe this, but I think it still is in people's thoughts weather they believe this or not. This is considered an old way of thinking and most younger Japanese don't really follow it, but I think there is still some influence on people. This is clear when you see many women over 25 who go for foreign men because Japanese men aren't interested in them.