to send my daughter into school with slightly Republican fairy cakes?

[GhostInTheBackOfYourHead]

DD's school is having a Royal Wedding party tomorrow for the last day of term and her year has been asked to bring in fairy cakes.

I've resisted the urge to decorate the aforementioned cakes with 'Off With Their Heads' and have gone instead for the educational 'Let Them Eat Cake'.

What price a daughter's embarrassment compared to standing up for principles, eh?

I suppose it is great if there is a french twist to it. :)

How did you manage to fit that whole phrase onto a fairy cake?! Mine are usually only big enough for a cherry and a few chocolate sprinkles!

squeaky toy...French and History...double whammy

annh- very craply, if truth be told.

What does your DD think?

Am sooooo happy that DC's are in a welsh medium school , they really don't seem to be into the royal family at all so absolutely NO MENTION of the royal wedding. I am

unfitmother-DD is a little uncomfortable but I did check the appropriateness with the school and they thought it was a wonderful idea. She'll get over it, I have embarrassed her in the past and will do so again :)

hobnobs...yay for Welsh schools

'DD is a little uncomfortable'

Poor kid.

she will be fine tomorrow....

she doesn't need your sympathy

she was worried she would 'get into trouble'. I checked with the school, they were fine with it. I communicated this to her. Good Lord, I've hardly shown up at the school gates waving a guillotine.

character building op

From the title of this thread, I thought the fairy cakes would have the head of George W Bush on them

fab!

great!
Though my boys would WANT cakes with a guillotine on.

exactly, character building

I read the thread title and thought the cakes would have the Irish tricolour on them.

I'm sorry to disappoint....

Irish tricolour would have been great, esp as I'm half Irish, oh well, next time.

I too was expecting Martin McGuinness on them.... :)

Ha ha, that's very funny! Am an ardent Royalist but love a bit of rebellious free speech, especially if it's on a cake!

I thought it was a George W. Bush thing too. lol

The real translation of that quote is bread, not cake. Its just distorted now.

I kinda liked the Queen of Hearts 'Off with their heads!' At least its Louis Carrol... it very English.

I never knew that, GotArt, about the original being bread not cake.

it was brioche, I always thought

I love it!

It refers to the poor having bread to eat. Its in one of DH's History of Food books.

Shallishanti, you are right, it was "et bien qu'ils mangent de la brioche" . She did start by saying "Qu'ils mangent du pain" When told the people were hungry but when told the people not have any bread she retorted

"Et bien qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"

I know because I was there!