{"id":28,"date":"2017-09-21T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-06-07T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:11:59","slug":"quils-mangent-de-la-brioche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/2017\/09\/21\/quils-mangent-de-la-brioche\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Qu&#8217;ils mangent de la brioche&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1178\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/files\/2017\/09\/01-Cake-by-the-Ocean.m4a'>01 Cake by the Ocean<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/web.colby.edu\\\/ofmiceandmules\\\/files\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/01-Cake-by-the-Ocean.m4a\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"01 Cake by the Ocean\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"01 Cake by the Ocean\\\".\",\"meta\":{\"length_formatted\":\"3:38\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/web.colby.edu\\\/ofmiceandmules\\\/files\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/01-Cake-by-the-Ocean-m4a-image.jpg\",\"width\":1400,\"height\":1400},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/web.colby.edu\\\/ofmiceandmules\\\/files\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/01-Cake-by-the-Ocean-m4a-image-150x150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>&#8220;Let them eat cake&#8221; is supposedly an ignorant, seemingly innocuous comment that is attributed to Marie Antoinette when she learned that the peasants in France were suffering from a famine due to the shortage of bread.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This notorious quote instigated people to condemn how the upper class in France were oblivious to the desperate situation the country was in. Although this story is accepted as a disingenuous truth, it still doesn&#8217;t withdraw the correlation of cake with the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/files\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/files\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/files\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/files\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ofmiceandmules\/files\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brioche is a French pastry which is known as the highly enriched form of baked bread. Brioche contains a much higher content of egg and butter in its recipe allowing its tender texture to be created. Its slightly puffy and delicate shape makes it a fine, elegant pastry with a fancy, delightful taste.<\/p>\n<p>But not all people were able to purchase such elegant pastries off their budgets. Most often than not, brioche was served with either a supplement of chocolate chip or several assortment of fruit. Therefore, brioche is usually served as a dessert, which was a typical part of a meal for the upper class. This extravagant dish wasn&#8217;t a common sight for a typical meal in the lower class of France, especially during the bread shortage while King Louis XIV (The husband of Marie Antoinette) was in reign.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, a cake is a symbol of a lavish embellishment that serves no purpose other than to fulfill unnecessary personal satisfaction. Although this statement might be far-fetched, a cake could be served as an epitome of decadence. I am not suggesting that those of us who blew candles on our birthday cakes or ordered a multi-layered cake for a wedding should resent ourselves with an inundating feeling of guilt. All I am suggesting is that a tiered serving tray full of untouched cake for decoration, or even an excessive amount for anyone to finish, is nothing but an utter waste and a sign of greed. It is just an uncomfortable fact to me that a brioche or simply a cake is basically a same step towards making a simple loaf of bread, but instead required a greater amount of the same ingredients to satisfy our palette. Why not use those ingredients to bake more loafs of bread and feed the hungry? Cakes aren&#8217;t even healthy anyway. 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