• raoulraoul@lemmy.world
      10·
      5 hours ago

      I was thinking, funny as it is, it might have worked better as a one-panel vignette (I don’t know the cartoonist’s usual format, if they always follow this 4-panel square layout) with just panel #4, word balloon included, and the text from panel #1 as a caption.

      Yeah, yeah, everyone’s a critic. In any case, it’s pretty funny…but not as funny as your face! 🤡

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 hours ago

    I knew that the marshmallow plant was used medicinally and perhaps as a sweet for thousands of years, but I wondered whether there was anything like a fluffy marshmallow during Vlad the Impaler’s time. It appears probably no. The marshmallow plant’s sap does not appear to have been whipped up like a modern marshmallow until the 19th century, whereas Vlad lived in the 15th century.

    They did have marshmallow plants in Europe, though, so it’s possible that he tasted it, just not fluffed up. That being said, I’m also not clear about whether the marshmallow plant actually tastes like a modern marshmallow, which doesn’t contain any part of the marshmallow plant.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
      5·
      8 hours ago

      From the French Wikipédia:

      The existence of marshmallow paste is documented as early as 1779 in a letter from the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes, to his wife, where he says, “Another loaf of marshmallow paste, please.”

      It’s funny to see marshmallow associated with Sade, who was imprisoned multiple times for… sadism.

      Four months after his wedding, Sade was accused of blasphemy and incitement to sacrilege, which were capital offenses.[43] He had rented a property in Paris which he used for sexual encounters. On 18 October 1763, Sade hired a prostitute named Jeanne Testard. Testard stated to the police that Sade had locked her in a bedroom before asking whether she believed in God. When she said that she did, Sade said there was no God and shouted obscenities concerning Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Sade then masturbated with a chalice and crucifix while shouting obscenities and blasphemies. He asked her to beat him with a cane and an iron scourge which had been heated by fire, but she refused. Sade then threatened her with pistols and a sword, telling her he would kill her if she did not trample on a crucifix and exclaim obscene blasphemies. She reluctantly complied. She spent the night with Sade, who read her irreligious poetry. He asked her for sodomy (another capital offense) but she refused. The following morning, Testard reported Sade to the authorities. On 29 October, following a police investigation, Sade was arrested on the personal orders of the king and jailed in Vincennes prison.