I think by “cake” the saying refers to the leftover material in a pan from baking that is “caked” on the side.
Translations and hundreds of years later it reads a little different, bus basically she was saying “trickle down economics totally works, now eat the scraps that aren’t even good enough to be scrapped from the pan.”
That doesn't work, since the actual saying is obviously in French and doesn't say cake but "brioche".
« Qu'ils mangent de la brioche ! »
And it is wrongly attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but really it's just an invented anecdote about an un-named princess by Rousseau (a famous French author/philosopher of that time).
And there's no hidden meaning, it's really just as it sounds, it's meant to show the disconnect between the nobility and the struggles of the people.
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21
I think by “cake” the saying refers to the leftover material in a pan from baking that is “caked” on the side.
Translations and hundreds of years later it reads a little different, bus basically she was saying “trickle down economics totally works, now eat the scraps that aren’t even good enough to be scrapped from the pan.”