Today we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Honoré, the patron saint of bakers.
Aujourd'hui c'est la Saint Honoré, le saint patron des boulangers.
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Is that a baguette in your basket or are you just happy to see me?
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As it says
here, "If anyone needed a patron saint in the Middle Ages, it was the bakers. As Phyllis Magida points out in
Eating, Drinking, and Thinking, bakers suffered "
bakers' asthma" from inhaling flour dust, "
bakers' knee" from nearly eighteen hours-a-day bending and lifting, and "
bakers' eczema" - an infectious skin disease caused by the clogging of their skin pores by the flour. Bakers who were convicted of short-changing customers or using bad grain were subject to the "
bakers' gallows, a terrible contraption by which the baker was hoisted in a basket and dropped 40 feet into a pool of mud usually resulting in multiple fractures."
And you Bitches thought
the Oubliette was torture.
In France, St. Honoré's feast day is celebrated with a week-long festival of bread, "la Fête du Pain."
We here at Infomaniac wish to honor this occasion with... wait for it...
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