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Christmas Cake: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OldMaidthe what now stereotype
An associated Japanese concept is the Christmas Cake (formerly a separate trope): the idea that just as a Christmas cake stops being desirable after December 25, a woman stops being desirable for marriage after age 25. This has since given way to the less popular "New Year's Noodles", where the age limit is increased to 31 (after December 31).
it's an outdated concept from the 90's, sometime before the Japanese equivalent of women entering the workforce in droves.