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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish249•17 hours agoYeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS. Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country’s spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.
minus-squaregrumpslinkfedilinkEnglish98•16 hours agoI believe the traditional response to “the peasants have no eggs” would be, “let them eat cake!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink33•16 hours agoHave they tried substituting smaller cakes for the eggs?
minus-square@ReallyActuallyFrankensteinlinkEnglish22•edit-216 hours agoYes, but it turns out those smaller cakes need smaller eggs.
minus-squareFaceDeerlinkfedilink8•16 hours agoGo through the cycle a few times and maybe they can use insect eggs? Peasants have plenty of insects, right?
minus-squaremasterofn001linkfedilink2•11 hours agoGilead decrees all women of breeding age surrender their ova immediately.
minus-squaregrumpslinkfedilinkEnglish25•edit-215 hours agoThat was the “joke” from the first time around. The French version uses brioche which is just even more fancy bread. Maybe a parallel would be “the peasants have no eggs!” -> “let them eat omelettes!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink46•16 hours agoWhy aren’t you wearing a suit to go grocery shopping? Show some respect!
minus-squaregrumpslinkfedilinkEnglish26•16 hours agoHave you instructed your servant to search more thoroughly?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•16 hours ago It can’t be that bad. What does one egg cost? Ten dollars? That’s nothing.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-214 hours agoSomeone needs to update this for eggs…
Yeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS.
Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country’s spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.
I believe the traditional response to “the peasants have no eggs” would be, “let them eat cake!”
You need eggs to make cake
Have they tried substituting smaller cakes for the eggs?
Yes, but it turns out those smaller cakes need smaller eggs.
Pheasant eggs aren’t any cheaper.
Go through the cycle a few times and maybe they can use insect eggs? Peasants have plenty of insects, right?
Gilead decrees all women of breeding age surrender their ova immediately.
It’s eggs all the way down.
That was the “joke” from the first time around. The French version uses brioche which is just even more fancy bread.
Maybe a parallel would be “the peasants have no eggs!” -> “let them eat omelettes!”
Let them eat quiche
Ew, gluten free cake
Have you said thank you once?
Why aren’t you wearing a suit to go grocery shopping? Show some respect!
Have you instructed your servant to search more thoroughly?
Someone needs to update this for eggs…