Occasionally they contain what villagers say is yellow cake - though why so precious and potent a substance should be thrown out has not been explained.

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Mr Mayer is championing the idea that Danisco should be a partner capable of developing new solutions for, say, baking the perfect cake or using pectin to replace gelatine in chewy sweets.

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Let's deal with the system, the changes that are necessary for that structure first, then let's say this is how you finance it, then you can say what proportion of the cake is divided up via tax or through various other systems.

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"It's fine if in Wales we say let's divide the cake in ways that seems fair across all parties, but if the result is the slices are too small to be effective in competition with other parts of the UK or Europe, then we're not going to get very far with it, " he said.

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They put on T-shirts that say "Drivers, " and they share a cake with a car on it.

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The usual suspects are mostly present: Feist, Emily Haines and Amy Millan, as well as members of Do Make Say Think, Tortoise and even The Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop.

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Or let's say a driver is heading to a party when he receives a request from the host asking to pick up some cake.

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