Word: cake
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...ROTC's advantages (be they civic or selfishly pecuniary) outweigh its faults then, having exposed the faults, participate fully in the program. The spectacle of this community trying to have its cake and eat it too reveals a sophistry wholly at odds with our central purpose, the pursuit of truth. "Trimming" is as demeaning to an institution as it is to an individual. --E. L. Pattullo
...grew up, for example, in a culture that recognized only four major foodstuffs: potatoes (mashed or fried), beef (roast or stewed), desserts (cake or pie) and vegetables (canned). There were "salads" too, involving miniature marshmallows encased in lime Jell-O. And there were, at the far fringes of human gastronomic experience, "foreign" foods, meaning mainly spaghetti. In those days, the only way to have fun with food was to put the peas to work as projectiles or make moats out of mashed potatoes...
...Some Harvard students] have spit on me, some have thrown their snot rags on me," Juan says. "There were some female Harvard students who told their boyfriends not to give me a dime when they were going to give me a dollar. [The girls] said 'Let him eat cake,' you know, the famous words of Marie Antoinette...
...Cake...
...another. But the fact was that the community I had grown up in was almost wholly gentile and, at my high school, it was Christmas trees and nativity scenes once December rolled around; if anyone had seen a menorah, they probably would have looked for the birthday cake...