Why Uganda’s rich remind the poor to enjoy eggs and milk

During the French Revolution of 1789 Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI and privileged Queen of France was controversially made very famous by four words. It was claimed that on hearing peasants were finding it hard to put bread; a cheap staple food, on the table the Queen advised them to go for a more expensive alternative, thus ‘let them eat cake.’ Research shows the words were falsely ascribed to her. But they became part of journalistic cliché for those oblivious and insensitive to the circumstance of the charges for whom they proffer idealistic advice and solutions.