Croissant Sandwich

20220506 #breakfastdiary 428, 15°C/light fog, 11min/exercise Thaw the raw croissant dough and bake at 180°C for about 10 minutes. Split it in half (careful, it's hot) and layer in mayonnaise, the prettiest lettuce in the world, ham, and cheese, neatly arranged. #croissantsandwich It's a consumer's world: pay at the register and you can have as much of whatever you like. But what Andreas Gursky's photograph 99 Cent is really showing us about consumer society isn't only that. There's a quiet undertow of helplessness lurking in it. Hundreds of varieties of candy make for fun eye candy, sure, but whatever you grab, the result is always the same: 99 cents. The dazzling, technicolor products seem to be saying, ‘No need to think too hard here — pick anything you like. Don't worry. You, your wallet, and your life will stay exactly the same.’ Lee Ju-eun, The Difference Between What's Given and What's Chosen It's common for the outcome of a choice to affect (or to be expected to affect) your life — but is the world really ever that simple? Sometimes the effect lands right away; other times it circles the globe three and a half times, quietly, and only lands long after you've completely forgotten it was ever a choice you made,