Why no funeral cakes?
 

You have BDM (births, deaths and marriages) suits and ties. Life is celebrated at all. Gifts are given at all (to the baby and fools, from the deceased), but we only have cake at births and marriages. Why not at funerals?

Cake or Death?



why not cake and death?

Cakes are associated with birthday celebrations and the dead won't be having anymore; so, maybe it's symbolic.

The birthday celebrant gets the cake and shares with everyone. The dead are selfish, so nobody gives them cake knowing there will be nothing coming back. :greenface

If there was a cake with the deceased's picture on it, slicing into it would be like reenacting the autopsy.

If the cake was burnt, it would taste like the post cremation dear departed.

Griff!

babies don't get to eat their cakes either. Except second hand if they're breast-fed

Maybe they should make funeral cakes like christmas puddings, gallette des rois or king cakes with a little charm (a scythe or skull maybe) and whoever gets it inherits the lot?

oh, They did have funeral cakes, apparently

I suppose you could bring some angel food cake made with manna, you know, just in case.

Death by Chocolate or Devil's Cake...

Around here the Jews sit Shiva and part of it is you bring food to the home of the family of the deceased. Around here it is often baked goods.

I had an order for a candle cake for a wake a while back.

Too hard to cry and eat cake at the same time?

I once went to a funeral with a whole sit-down meal afterwards. It was pot luck style food from the ladies of the church she used to attend before going into the nursing home for the last few years, and definitely included some desserts.

I went to one where they had a buffet after but up home it was usually coffee, soda, cookies, cake, brownies, kind of thing, put on by the church ladies.

There was a sit down meal at the funeral I took Thor to a few years ago (his best friend's dad). I think the food was provided kind of pot-luck style by the church congregation

Probably half the funerals I have been to had either a potluck or reception afterwards and desserts were offered. Don't remember if there was cake at any of them. can't picture it.

But the point of Monster's thread is that there is no themed, central, spectacular cake central to things like there is at birthdays, weddings and christenings. And there isn't. Is there?


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People are happy that those things are happening. I suppose you could have a cake at a funeral if people were glad the person is dead.

but they are usually glad the person lived.

The cake could represent their achievements and interests. Many funerals now seem to be a celebration of the life that was rather than pure misery that it is over, wailing and tearing of hair and clothes....

That would be pizza.