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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Plum cake

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An example of a contemporary plum cake

  • ... that in Great Britain, the term plum cake typically refers to what Americans refer to as a type of fruitcake (example pictured)?

Created by Northamerica1000 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:23, 15 April 2015 (UTC).

  • ALT1: ... that at times, Thomas Carlyle ate a light style of plum cake while drinking tea, which he would dip into the tea?
  • . Interesting and informative. Article is long enough and posted before due date. Hook references verified. No copy vio detected. Img is freely licensed. I prefer the original hook.--Nvvchar. 07:27, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
  • If you're still looking for a hook presenting the subject in a more dangerous light, how about
ALT2 ... that to prevent "Extravagencies at Commencements", in 1721 Harvard forbade "any Scholar to have Plum-cake &c in his Study"?
The source is at [1] if you want to add it to the article. For more see [2] EEng (talk) 00:45, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
  • N.b. I prefer the initial hook, which has been reviewed as good to go. Also, content in ALT2 is not presently in the article, so ALT2 is not qualified at this time. As such, I have struck ALT2. North America1000 08:30, 29 April 2015 (UTC)