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So why do we eat pineapple tarts only during Chinese New Year?
There’s no logic to many of our food conventions. Perhaps it is time to break free.
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The unwritten rule for pineapple tarts and associated goodies is that they can only be eaten around the festive period.
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“Let them eat cake,” said 18th-century French royal Marie Antoinette when her starving subjects complained about the lack of bread, or so the famous story goes. This suggestion was apparently not well received. In fact, it was so poorly received that she would subsequently be beheaded.
This story has since been debunked – there is no evidence Marie Antoinette said any such thing – but it is oft repeated because it does carry some lessons relevant today.
