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posted by martyb on Monday September 02 2019, @05:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the let-them-eat-cake...mix dept.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/london-gatwick-drug-bust-cake-scli-intl/index.html

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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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @08:13AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @08:13AM (#888765)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Monday September 02 2019, @09:20PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 02 2019, @09:20PM (#888980) Journal

    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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