"Let Them Eat TastyKake!"

Happy Bastille Day everyone!!!
Today I went to the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia for the 14th annual Bastille Day celebration. There was a little street fair during the day with french food and jazz standards, but the real fun was later on. At 5:30 everyone gathered in front of the Penitentiary for a renactment of the storming of the Bastille and capture and beheading of Marie Antoinette. People were dressed in period costumes and read from scripts (which were actually pretty funny). The whole thing was very farcical. Marie Antoinette was atop the battlements with a bottle of champagne (sham-pon-yah) when she delivered her famous line. But, in Philadelphia the translation is a bit off. She said "If the people have no bread to eat, then let them eat TastyKake!". This utterance was followed by over 2,000 TastyKake products being hurled over the wall into the croud below. Everywhere you looked someone was being hit in the face with a butterscotch krimpette. The Revolutionaries replied with cannons and gunfire and Antoinette was eventually brought down into the crowd and beheaded, Technically, the only thing that was beheaded was a watermelon, but it was still fun.

Here's a video. I think most of the footage was from last year, butyou get the point: