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Britons have become so mean that many of us think poor people don’t deserve leisure time
(www.theguardian.com)
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As I said elsewhere, it reminded me of Lula's speech about how the poor deserve to live a nice life, too.
'They think that the poor don’t have rights. … The right to barbecue with family on the weekend, to buy a little picanha, to that piece of picanha with the fat dipped in flour, and to a glass of cold beer.'
EDIT: Re-added the quote. Markup ate it before.
Picanha = rump steak, one of the finer meats for a barbecue. I do think the flour in case was farofa, which isn't quite flour, but a mix that's ready to eat.
Oddly, I've never been able to find the original Portuguese quotation, but I assume he did say farofa!