Of course it is , well, who said that you cannot celebrate a marital breakdown? However, unlike wedding cakes, which are dominated by the figurines of newlyweds looking at each other tenderly, in divorce cakes, man and woman are presented separately, turning their backs, crying or even fighting violently, and usually incorporate hearts broken among the ornamental motifs.
They became fashionable a few years ago in the United States to celebrate the marital separation and incidentally do business in a nation where couple breakups are very frequent. And that the North American country is not the first in the world in divorce percentage, according to data from the Divorce Demography study. Belgium leads this ranking, with a rate of 71% (with respect to the number of marriages celebrated).
It is followed by Portugal (68%), Hungary (67%), Czech Republic (66%), Spain (61%), Luxembourg (60%), Cuba (56%), France (55%), United States (53% ), Russia (51%), Germany (49%), Austria (49%) and the United Kingdom (47%), all of them above 44%, which is the global average for the European Union. As we can see, in Europe there is a higher percentage of marital failure than in the rest of the world.
That is why it is not surprising that the rite of divorce cakes has reached some countries on our continent, such as Italy and the United Kingdom , which have specialized agencies to organize break-up parties. The services they offer include cakes, which bear titles such as “At last free”, “Cemetery”, “Kick”, “Headless”, “To the garbage”, “Beggar”, “Fall” or “Cabin”. In the latter, the ex-husband, who is harmed in almost all forms, has to go live in a hut.
