Episode 364 - The Pastry War

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Come see us live in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ A conflict breaks out between a newly independent Mexico and a newly back-to-having-kings France. It culminates in a small series of armed incursions and blockades in 1838-39. Did it start because of an aggrieved French baker? Did Napoleon’s armies advance the science of military optics because their commander wanted to look at feet? In this episode (the first one where Nate has researched, written, and hosted), we get to the bottom of the semi-apocryphal Pastry War. Sources: Atwater, James D.; Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo. "Out from Under: Benito Juárez and the Struggle for Mexican Independence." Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1969. Muñoz, Rafael Felipe. "Santa Anna, el dictador resplandeciente." Fondo de Cultura Económica: Mexico, 1982. Penot, Jacques. "L'expansion commerciale française au Mexique et les causes du conflit franco-mexicain de 1838-1839." Bulletin Hispanique 75-1-2, 1973. pp. 169-201 Toussaint, Éric. "Le système dette : Histoire des dettes souveraines et de leur répudiation." Les Liens qui libèrent: Paris, 2017.

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0:00.0	If you've ever wanted to see us live while we're heading back to London. That's right. Again,
0:05.7	we will be performing June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival at the Big Belly Comedy Club in London.
0:12.2	So get your tickets now. They'll be in the show notes. You can come see us like 20 other acts,
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0:45.7	when they're available, and also gets you access to our Discord, which has turned into a lovely
0:50.2	little community. So go to patreon.com slash lions led by donkeys and join the Legion of by Donkeys podcast. It's the year 1832, and we, the cast of the show,
1:23.9	are officers in the Mexican Army, serving under General Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana.
1:30.1	Our unit has bivouacked for the evening in a small town called Takubaya, not far from the
1:35.2	Federal District of Mexico. We've decided to enjoy a candlelit dinner together, just the three of us,
1:40.5	as a means of burying the hatchet for an incident, in which El Capitán Tomaso El Irlandes
1:45.0	convinced us that the best way to chase a shot of Polké involved licking the fleshy part
1:49.6	of a specific desert cactus. Needless to say, we gave some orders that night, but we can't
1:54.4	recall them. I didn't make you lick it, Tomaso says. I just made a recommendation.
1:59.6	A coronel Jose Casabian, nicknamed El Armagno,
2:03.3	cannot stand the idea that he's going to sit through another argument about popular French
2:08.5	sheet music from at least 40 years ago. All those guys sucked anyway, and half of them got guillotined,
2:13.8	and the ones that didn't got drafted into the Grand Arme and died in Russia. And you know what?
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