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A customer sampling packets of sugar at a supermarket in Kakamega town. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

Informed that the peasants were up in arms because there was no bread in the market, France's last queen, Marie Antoinette is said to have quipped: "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."

More than three centuries later, the jury is still out on whether Marie meant "let them eat cake," in which case she ought to have said: "Qu'ils mangent de la gateau'' or whether she said Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which would have meant: Let them eat buns."