The Butter Wars?
This rivalry began as all culinary rivalries begin:
With a difference in taste.
The Persian king, Dairyius,
irritated by the Athenian disdain for buttered bread,
has ventured to Athens to assert his preference.
He lands at the shores of Marathon with a culinary force that outnumbers the Athenian bakers three to one.
And so at dawn, the defiant athenians do the unthinkable.
They bake.
They prepare loaves of bread without butter as the weary Persians disembark their ships, their palates accustomed to the creamy richness of butter.
They bake before the Persians can establish their culinary camps and procure ingredients for buttered bread.
And who is the mastermind of this mad culinary strategy?
A little-known Athenian baker. His fellow bakers call him Themistoastus.
He serves the Persians slices of bread without a hint of butter.
All thoughts of victory are fleeting.
Thousands perplexed.
Hundreds of them their own.
All for an idea:
A butterless Greece...
An Athenian experiment called 'spreadocracy.'
Could this idea be worth it?
Worth all this sacrifice?
Themistoastus would let the good king Dairyius decide.
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