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Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I deleted a reference to http://food.iwm.org.uk/?p=663 from the intro, where it tagged a sentence about rationing during wartime. The article doesn’t really talk about rationing in general all that much and not at all in relation to rock cakes. A quick Web search didn’t turn up a good replacement. MacMog (talk) 02:39, 15 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

In popular culture: subtext?

Latest comment: 27 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

A contributor has (Jan_2024) tagged the section as possibly "contain[ing] irrelevant references to popular culture".

The suggested remedies include "adding citations to reliable and independent sources", so it's possible I'm misunderstanding the intention. (But the function of references is to establish points which might be doubted / challenged - which doesn't seem to apply to this section's content.)

The other suggested remedy is deletions. But the section seems rather good as it stands

It has a delightful theme identifying post-war rock cakes - that is, in the era following Lord Woolton's notorious 'Victory Dishes' - as hazardous: even as weapons, in the unfortunate Ernie's case. The section describes Hagrid's as wrecking assembled victims' teeth, and others ('Allo 'Allo!) as suitable for those suffering extreme and sordid hardship or as gifts with the implied threat of calling on the donees to attempt eating them; elsewhere as munitions for use in strafing an office across the hallway, etc.

Of course if any published critic has made the same point, a comment + citation would improve Wikipedia.

The section's other mentions of rock cakes relate mainly to the inter-war period, and seem to me to highlight fictional characters' excellence as cooks. Pre-Woolton, the supreme accolade is to be known as reliably capable of making GRAS rock cakes. In East Enders I see a later note of discreet demotic (non-Michelin) excellence. 2A04:B2C2:1000:D000:6D8C:D781:F9CD:AD6B (talk) 22:42, 2 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@2A04:B2C2:1000:D000:6D8C:D781:F9CD:AD6B So we could reinstate the popular culture section with following reference supporting Hagrid's rock cakes as a start.

{{cite book

| last1 = Bucholz

| first1 = Dinah

| title = The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory—More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike

| publisher = Simon & Schuster

| year = 2010

}} Duncnbiscuit (talk) 23:09, 4 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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