Cultural References
In Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time one of the narrator's childhood memories sets in while tasting a madeleine dunked in tea. The soft, spongy consistency of the madeleine could seem like an odd choice as dunking is more common with crisp baked products, such as biscuits. In fact, draft versions of Proust's manuscript reveal that the author initially had the narrator dunk a piece of toasted bread.
In the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Evelyn Greenslade, one of the main characters, explains to her new employer during an interview whilst drinking Builder's tea. Evelyn, quite poetically describes it as "lowering the biscuit into the tea and letting it soak in there and trying to calculate the exact moment before the biscuit dissolves, when you whip it up into your mouth and enjoy the blissful union of biscuits and tea combined."
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