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WCDT strips 3861-3865 (29th October to 2nd November 2018)
Tova:
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that there's any confusion in the difference between bread and cake. That's pretty clear, as you say.
What I'm talking about is the situation where various people call essentially the same product either "banana bread" or "banana cake." According to your distinction, it ought to be called "banana cake," but some insist on classifying it as a "quick bread."
dutchrvl:
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--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 30 Oct 2018, 03:56 ---Doesn't sound to me like Brun has a learning disability so much as a communication disability, from the way she describes it.
Also:
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--- Quote from: chris73 on 29 Oct 2018, 16:16 ---This strip is not making Claire come across well, like if I hadn't read any of her backstory she'd come across (to me anyway) as quite entitled and a bit selfish
I mean you can study in a bakery or coffee shop but to expect those places of business to be quiet just so you can study in peace is a little much, if its that big a deal she could go to a public library or something?
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That's the classic Western World double standard at work.
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Not sure I see the double-standard, did you maybe mean "first world problems"?
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I was specifically referring to the deeply ingrained behavioral double standard for men and women. Claire was being more harshly judged for her behavior than a guy might be. Even though most QC forumites are aware of and opposed to this double standard, it's still difficult to fight against.
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How is she being more harshly judged than a guy would be though? I mean, if a guy would expect a bakery/coffee shop to be quiet just so he can study in peace, he would also be thought of as entitled and selfish. Perhaps you have different experiences?
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 Oct 2018, 03:52 ---Typically, though the distinction is pretty clear - bread does not contain significant amounts of eggs and sugar, whereas cake does. Of course, there are exceptions that fall between, but the fact that there is a fundamental difference towards the ends of the spectrum is plain.
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Yet here I sit thinking anything that is a bread, not to be confused by marketing hype [aka lies], has a not insignificant amount of gluten as a product of kneading somewhere in the process.
My thoughts are that products like banana bread ended up mislabelled due to marketing types not being all hat smart to begin with.
My deductive reasoning is as follows;
* these cakes are typically baked in loaf pans
* loaf pans are normally used for baking loaves of bread
* these cakes are typically sliced and served similarly to bread - butter optional
* A brain fart by some marketing types thinking anything baked in a loaf pan means its bread
* Marketing types are specialized in producing and shovelling wind
Remember: Common sense =/= good sense
traroth:
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Oct 2018, 03:34 ---It's like "banana bread," isn't it? Try googling the phrase "difference between banana bread and banana cake" and read with amusement the various strained attempts to differentiate between the two. The Wikipedia entry for banana bread notes that it is "cake-like." Well, yes, it is awfully like cake, isn't it? How uncanny.
It's a triumph of marketing. By calling it thus, we can eat cake for breakfast and fool ourselves that we've made a healthful selection.
Edit: After posting, I just thought to myself, "I'm surprised they don't also call it carrot bread." *googles* "Oh, look at that, they do." :psyduck:
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I have brioche for my breakfast almost every morning and I don't feel guilty at all. Does it count as cake? Oh wait, my baker calls it "pain brioché", now that you mention it. So it's fine, isn't it? :D
Tova:
Which reminds me that the expression "let them eat cake" is the usual translation of "qu'ils mangent de la brioche."
It is definitely fine. Brioche is awesome. 8-)
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