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Bags of white powder seized as part of a "huge drugs bust" at London's Gatwick Airport actually contained vegan cake ingredients, the British Transport Police said.
A member of staff at Purezza, a vegan restaurant with stores in London and Brighton, was transporting a suitcase filled with bags of cake mix when it was seized by police Wednesday afternoon.
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'Huge Drugs Bust' Seized at London's Gatwick Airport found to be Vegan Cake Mix
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(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Monday September 02 2019, @07:06AM (14 children)
Whenever I read about cake, I think of Marie Antoinette, who never actually said "Let them eat cake." But they still chopped her head off. At least it's not a bad misquote to be remembered for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:24AM (4 children)
She did say it, but "cake" in french is mistranslated to "cake" in english. The substance she was talking about is the bits of dough that fall over the sides of the pans as it rises and cooks. They end up burnt and dirty and were scraped up and sold to the poor for less than bread.
It wasn't a misunderstanding of what being poor was like, she was literally saying the poor can eat shit.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @08:13AM (1 child)
Actually, seems your imagination is on the loose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake [wikipedia.org]
So it seems it was most likely a populist phrase made up and used during revolution.
(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Monday September 02 2019, @09:20PM
I don't think I trust Wikipedia as a source. I've heard several variations on the story, so and my guess is that she said something analogous to "let them eat burnt toast", but just how analogous to it I couldn't guess. Whether the original was brioche in the current sense of the term is dubious. More likely it was a reference to the dough that was caked onto the sides of the ovens that bread was baked in. But that's just my guess. (I don't even speak modern French, and I doubt that modern French has anything that really corresponds to what she meant...ignoring the fact that there was a lot of propaganda disguised as rumor, and the facts are not really clear.)
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 02 2019, @08:02PM (1 child)
I thought she said they should eat brioche, which is a sort of pastry. It would make sense to translate it to "cake" if most English didn't know what brioche was.
It seemed like a crystallization of a common phenomenon where those who have only known privilege cannot understand what it is to be poor and desperate.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:50AM
Read AC's wiki link. Those words were put in her mouth by her enemies. I was taught the same thing in school, but common knowledge doesn't always hold up to scrutiny.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Monday September 02 2019, @10:01AM (8 children)
> I think of Marie Antoinette, who never actually said "Let them eat cake."
Perhaps today she would say "Let them eat fast food"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAvM0MHnGgc [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 02 2019, @04:14PM (7 children)
Knock on McDonalds all you want, but the next time you've been eating foreign food in a foreign country for a week. You'll be quite happy to see those Golden Arches. I'm vegetarian and even I was quite happy to see them. Best thing about fast food, is it's mostly the same wherever you go. I was quite happy to have some french fries and ice cream.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday September 02 2019, @06:49PM (1 child)
foreign food in a foreign country for a week
I constantly do this, I eat foreign food at home too. I even very occasionally eat mcdonalds, although would never go for their icecream, and their fries are terrible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @02:59PM
McDonald's icecream isn't bad - at least it won't give you digestive issues for the rest of the day like their other food.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 02 2019, @08:04PM (1 child)
KFC is a better option. McDonald's hamburgers could very well be ground cat, but a chicken is a chicken is a chicken.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @08:51AM
The rumor is that KFC was forced to change its name to "KFC" because they started using genetically engineered meat that tasted just like but was not actually chicken, so they could not legally call it "Fried Chicken" any more.
"Why did the four legged chicken cross the road?"
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday September 02 2019, @08:12PM (1 child)
Wow, you're weird. I absolutely *never* eat at McD's, either in the US or when I'm abroad. And I never get tired of foreign food, especially Asian food. Maybe the problem is that you're vegetarian: many foreign cuisines don't cater to vegetarians.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 02 2019, @09:15PM
I essentially never eat at McDonald's, either. The experience I was referring to happened when I was much younger, so McDonald's Ice Cream and French Fries were a taste of home. To top it all off we had the privilege of drinking carbonated water while we were there as it was the only water that was known to be safe to drink. I.E. Not re-bottled local tap water. As the local tap water would have done bad things to our insides.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @12:00AM
Yes, I was happy to see the Golden Arches when I needed a place to piss or shit for free.
Otherwise: I travelled halfway around the world, why the fuck would I want to eat American factory food?