Pastry War

[gentle music] My name is Mark Fennell, and this is the fourth and final installment in our miniseries This Stupid War.

We've been rifling through history's drawers to find just bizarre conflicts and asking whether they deserve the name they've been given, and in this case, the Pastry War

A war over pastries.

But I mean, it was a lot more than that

What a phrase.

He is quite the character, he really is.

[whimsical music] Antonio López de Santa Anna was a former president and military general who, two years before the Pastry War, had returned home to Mexico in disgrace.

He was a, he was a fallen hero, one who was waiting for a chance to redeem himself.

Okay.

So for those of you playing at home, when Angie had a visceral reaction to me mentioning Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, it's because when I mentioned this human, he is the source of a ton of chaos and was involved in something called the Pastry War against France.

And in that episode, I discussed kind of some of this chaos that I just touched on again.

He's a chaos goblin.