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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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Everything you know is wrong!
(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.