They could have done so much more with the one segment that was actually on the Revolution if they had been willing to go through the differences between the diet of the average sans-culotte and that of that average bourgeois, or even if they had been willing to compare the kind of dinners Danton and co. gave with the menu of the dinner Mme Cavaignac served to Maximilien, Augustin, and Charlotte Robespierre... My real point here is that, no, it wasn't really by necessity that they focused on the royalists, because there's certainly enough material to focus on what the title of the program promises. Why not call it, "The Supersizers go 18th century royalist." Because, really, that would be more accurate.
Other than that, the nonsense they spouted about the Revolution, and Robespierre in particular, was extremely irritating, but not unexpected. I was, however, pleasantly surprised that they bothered to mention the White Terror (though the muscadins' sticks were rather more substantial than that...)
All in all, I think the most disturbing thing about it has to be that Le Thermidor seems to be a real restaurant. And whatever flaws this program has, that certainly isn't their fault. Though pronouncing "douze" like "deux" and then explaining to the waitress that they mean "twelve eggs" is, I'm sad to say.
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They could have done so much more with the one segment that was actually on the Revolution if they had been willing to go through the differences between the diet of the average sans-culotte and that of that average bourgeois, or even if they had been willing to compare the kind of dinners Danton and co. gave with the menu of the dinner Mme Cavaignac served to Maximilien, Augustin, and Charlotte Robespierre... My real point here is that, no, it wasn't really by necessity that they focused on the royalists, because there's certainly enough material to focus on what the title of the program promises. Why not call it, "The Supersizers go 18th century royalist." Because, really, that would be more accurate.
Other than that, the nonsense they spouted about the Revolution, and Robespierre in particular, was extremely irritating, but not unexpected. I was, however, pleasantly surprised that they bothered to mention the White Terror (though the muscadins' sticks were rather more substantial than that...)
All in all, I think the most disturbing thing about it has to be that Le Thermidor seems to be a real restaurant. And whatever flaws this program has, that certainly isn't their fault. Though pronouncing "douze" like "deux" and then explaining to the waitress that they mean "twelve eggs" is, I'm sad to say.