Posted on 05/21/2022 6:05:26 AM PDT by blam
From any FR historians, for our education, what exactly was the ‘cake’ that Marie Antoinette was referring to ?
Brioche.
No, she never said that. But this urban legend has stubbornly persisted for more than two centuries.
It is not certain that Marie Antoinette said any such thing.
It is more likely that she suggested brioche rather than cake.
All bakery product prices were regulated so bakers would not evade bread price controls by just selling cakes.
If you go back 50 years or so, the big topic was the population explosion. Billions and Billions of people would overwhelm the earth and cause massive famines.
But that didn’t happen. For two reasons: 1) Food production keeps improving with high technology and 2) The planet’s population seems to have pretty much topped out and is in decline in many areas.
Everything is supply and demand. We have increased Supply and we have lowered Demand.
And they want us to eat bugs.
There can be no good reason for this.
“meat”
Dairy cows and bulls allow land that is not suitable for food crops to be used to provide meat and milk to feed people.
Imagine if there was no animal milk for babies.
“pods”
The images of Jacob Riis made of immigrants to NYC living in shared rooms come to mind.
I should add that meat and dairy production is not dependent on pesticide usage.
Many mortgagees want inflation.
IIRC, she never actually said that. Someone at the time wrote that her attitude was such that she would say something like that.
Defeat the whole "nobility" (and their lackeys and pets), not just politicians.
She didn’t understand that there was a shortage of all grains and thus the bread shortage. She thought it was just one kind of bread that was in short supply. So she suggested that people could eat a different kind of bread made from different grains. English propagandists translated that as “cake” or portrayed it as her being carelessly indifferent to the peasants’ suffering when she was not.
I believe that there is sort of a reason, to them. The wealthy are largely cheapskates. They won’t tip and they don’t like paying for things. Time was when a landed noble in England could provide no-cost housing and non-existent pay to maids to live at their estate, for instance. All if a sudden, paid wages at the textile mill are a threat to their way of life. Who will be their maids, anymore?
It is the same with beef, ivory or anything else. The elites see availability to the common man as a threat to what they enjoy for “free”.
They got awY with stealing an election right in fron t of the whole world, i. Broad day.ight, and now possibly gonna get away with giving away our sovereignty to foreign countries, so look for them to push the envelope as far as possible like,forcing folks to give up meat, and take up eating bugs to replace it. Who’s gonna stop them from mandating constitution violating laws? Certainly not the gop in office. Heck the gop aren’t even riled up over the
POssibility of losing sovereignty, nor were they riled up about the faux administration’s asszult,on the 1st amendment
Russia, right now, is their BIGGEST OBSTACLE to this future for the West. If they are able to dispose of the Russian Government and replace it with a Western puppet, they’ll then move on to China and India.
She may have said somehting that was similar- heck pur
Oliticisns are a.ways saying similar stuff, ie “let the peasants suffer, we elites are above their suffering” essentially is what they think and say in so many words and deeds.
Hillary Clinton said “at this point what difference does it make?” When talking about thr ambassadors who were murdered by terrorists, which essentially is the same sentiment. “Hooray for us, to heck with the poor” type mentality. I dunno much about Antoinette, but it kinda sounded like she was an elitist
[[If you go back 50 years or so, the big topic was the population explosion. Billions and Billions of people would overwhelm the earth and cause massive famines.
But that didn’t happen. For two reasons:...]]
Also Even at 9 billion people, Suppxoedly only around 2% of the earth’s inhabitable land is inhabited. (I’ve read as much as 10% is though, but still, it’s not a lot) vast swaths of inhabitable lands are untouched
I've drank two large glasses of milk every day my whole life. I'm 78.
I was raised on a dairy until about the age 11-12.
On October 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
Like he said, history doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
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