Comes de revolution, we’ll eat strawberries and cream!

The line is a comic, mock-revolutionary promise: after “the revolution” (said in a faux-French/creole cadence, “Comes de revolution”), the speaker imagines not grim austerity but a decadent treat—strawberries and cream. The humor comes from the mismatch between revolutionary rhetoric (usually associated with hardship, sacrifice, or ideological purity) and a bourgeois dessert, suggesting either naïve optimism about political upheaval or a satirical take on people who romanticize revolution as a shortcut to personal comfort. It can also be read as a critique of armchair radicalism: the revolution is invoked less as a serious program than as a punchline that masks desire for simple pleasures.