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A real "let them eat cake" moment.
I've heard that phrase my whole life and only looked it up now because of your comment. For anyone else that's curious:
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~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
I had a history teacher who claimed that French bakers at the time called the layers of dough that were left on the bottom of the ovens and had to be scraped off periodically “cake” and that is what Marie Antoinette was referring to when she said “let them eat cake.” So it was just as heartless, but maybe less comically out of touch.
The one sentence the poster you responded left out:
And brioche is more like a rich egg bread than what I would recognize as cake.
The eggs and butter make it much more expensive though, so the sentiment is similar.