Why Use This Word When Describing Desserts?

I keep coming across the word "decadent" when someone is describing a dessert.  "Dark Decadent Donuts", "This is a very decadent dessert".  Why "decadent"?  That word means "decay".  There is book called From Dawn to Decadence: A History of Western Civilization.  That means it's a history of corruption in Western Civilization.  Why is this word used to describe a dessert?  It doesn't fit at all.  

The same thing applies to chocolate desserts with names like "Devil's Delight" or "Sinful Sensation".  Christian comedian Ken Davis' wife doesn't like  that because she loves chocolate.  And I agree with her.  Why should chocolate desserts have those kinds of names?  Why not, as Mrs. Ken Davis suggested, have chocolate dessert with names like "A Taste of Heaven" or "God's Gift to Mankind"?  Sure that last one sounds a little over-the-top, but it sounds a lot better than "Devil's Delight". 

Wreck Of The CARL D. BRADLEY

This is one of the most famous Great Lakes shipwrecks of recent history.  The Carl D. Bradley was an ore carrier, which means she transported iron ore from one place to another.  She had already been in service on the lakes for thirty-one years at the time of her final voyage in 1958.

The Great Lakes are prone to massive violent storms in late autumn.  These produce waves that can be up forty feet high.  On the night November 18, the Bradley ran into one such storm on Lake Michigan.  She broke in two on the surface and went down with thirty-three of her crewman.  Only two men survived to tell the tale; First Mate Elmer Fleming (aged froty-three at the time), and Deck Watchman Frank Mayes (aged 26 at the time).  They had escaped with two other crewmen in a life raft, but the latter two died of exposure to the elements.  Fleming and Mayes held on and later rescued by the Christian Sartori, a German cargo vessel that witnessed the Bradley's sinking.  

What makes the story of this wreck a very gut-wrenching one is the fact most of the crewmen on board (a total of 23) were from Rogers City, a small town in Northern Michigan.  The entire town was devastated by the loss of their men on the lake.  As a tribute to the families of the victims, divers down to wreck and retrieved the bell in 2008.  A memorial service was held in City hall and the bell tolled to commemorate the crew.  

Frank Mayes is the only one of the two survivors left.  Elmer Fleming died about twelve years after the sinking. 

Hyung Yun

I was eighteen and a senior in high school when I first heard this baritone.  The Overture Center in Madison does school performances of the final dress rehearsals of the operas.  My choir class went to the matinee of Faust for a field trip.  This baritone sang the role of Valentine, Marguerite's ill-fated soldier brother.  

It has been four years since I first heard Hyung Yun sing.  He has sung the role of Escamillo in Carmen, and the title role in Eugene Onegin.  Then last weekend, I saw him live again in the role of Renato Anckarstrom in Un Ballo in Maschera.  I was completely stunned by his performance.  

While I have not seen as much of this barihunk as I'd like (he's not as well-known as most of my other favorites), I loved his performance so much that I actually yelled "I love you, Renato," from my seat up in the balcony.  I have also seen his website.  If you haven't heard this guy, you need to seriously fix that.  Now.  He is so talented and so handsome that I swear he can kill an opponent without even making a move.