Hard Time Comfort Food and the Enshittification of Chocolate 🍫

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start building furniture with marshmallow while quite a few places in Europe are on fire.Hi there! If revenge is a dish best served cold, what is revolution? A buffet. Everyone shows up hungry, no one agrees on the menu.Piero✹Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quoted in Histoire de la Revolution Française. Centuries later quoted on Wikipedia, and by the Aerosmith. The Marching Pantry, with StyleA protester in Paris wearing an 18th century period costume during a demonstration against the high cost of living. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/AFP/Getty Images (via CNN)Every protest has its manual. Where to stand, what to wear, who to call if things go wrong. Nobody writes the chapter on lunch. Yet hunger is the oldest reason to march. In Rome, a grain shortage left Emperor Claudius cornered in the Forum, pelted with insults and pieces of bread. In France in 1775, soaring grain prices set off the Flour War: about 300 riots in two months. In Japan in 1918,…