Croissants: C or D?

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classique, of course.

I had the hunger, the cupboard was empty, the fridge was almost bare, except for salad and left over potato,cheese and brocoli bake. Food supply in the house was at_a_low. In the corner of the kitchen, lay two croissants and a milky bar...

I opened up one of the pastries and added the bake, the other, I inserted the milky bar, veterinarian style. After adding a tad of oil, both Croissants were placed in the oven. This ended up being one helluva meal and dessert.Mmmmmmmmm. Be kind to the Croissant, they are your friends.

― kinski (kinski), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

c!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmmmm, croissants or pain au chocolat and a cup of milky hot chocolate.

― Saskia, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i ate the worst croissant of my life thus far on saturday, it must have been a 2 day old reheat, at best. but hilarity ensued when my friend (in this case, a nearly 7 foot, tattooed, bald twentysomething dude of russian origin) took the croissant and used it to beat my other friend (a goodlooking, if less physically remarkable dude of italian origin), the bits of hardened croissant flaking off into the night sky. and before that i pretended to bite down on the table and said 'oh i couldn't tell the difference' and the russian dude laughed so hard he started crying. that was after the italian dude tried to throw the russian dude's orange into the pool, but hit the pole (nb pole not Pole) instead. we were all operating on less than 4 hours sleep).

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

MITCHELL S da art of storytellin!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

also there was also a racist (himself black, but told us that he wouldn't let black people into his home), capitalist jesus-freak congolese dude there that night but he didn't join us for dinner.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

man south africa must be like fuckin casablanca or something

― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

adrian! ADRIAN!

oh no wait that wasnt casablanca.

i think this is the beginning of a long and beautiful thread.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

soggy, or day old croissants are definately duds, but crispy fresh ones are classic all the way!

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

they are my favorite breakfast treat. classic
it is soooo hard to find good ones, though.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

A nice fresh croissant is both classic and dud -- dud only because of its fat content, even though the butter is required to make it so classic.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. Yeah. Croissants. I was at a meeting retreat thing for work recently and they had baskets of muffins and croissants for breakfast so I had a couple croissants (obviously) Then at lunch there were these icky sandwiches, so I just went back to the breakfast table and grabbed more croissants. Fat be damned! It felt quite decadent.

― Poppy (poppy), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The best thing to do is slather them with butter as yr friends sputter "b-b-but they're already MADE OF BUTTER". If possible, segue into an ANGLE joke.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

also - mitch that is the best story ever.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Croissants are amazingly good. Oh yes.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm with ham and cheese and freshly warmed..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

False croissants (crescent-shaped bread things with no flakiness or butter aroma) are worse than false metal.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

false bagels -- oo we can bake bread, let's make something that LOOKS like that. cockfarmers.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

baking bread that looks like cockfarmers = CLASSIC

― rener, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

haha I imagine some tourist programme interviewing the baker "well I've been baking cockfarmer bread for years, and my father before me. Will I tell you the secret recipe? No way!"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Best croissants in London are at: Patisserie Valerie (the Old Compton Street branch) and Maison Bertaux.

Best bagels come from this place in Leather Lane. Best beigels (there seems to be a difference in outcome when it's spelt the British-Jewish way) are still the fresh ones from Brick Lane.

Alan, someone's been feedng you goyim bagels again. Smite them.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BROWN SODA COCKFARMER BREAD (serves 2)

Sift together 10 ounces of flour, 5 ounces of wholemeal, half a teaspoon of baking soda, and some cockfarmer. Pour into a tin and bake at 180 centigrade until the bread resembles a cockfarmer. Serve and enjoy.

― rener, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

A big old blob of nutella makes a dud Croissant classic

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

mix marmite in with the nutella = the geeta barf-nozzle special

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

'my wife, she's french- a CROISSANT!'

― _, Monday, 17 October 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

croissants are perfect! heaven

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

what are you watching?

― minna (minna), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

(ps classic duh)

― minna (minna), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

classic

(even tha australian croissant with a dab of vegemite)

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 17 October 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

I love those cheapoh choco-croissants. Yum.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Unbelievable classic!

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Kinda depends though. Some are made with too much sugar glazing (?), I hate those. Otherwise definitely classique!

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

The best croissants in the world: it's 8.30am on a French campsite. You were woken around 6 by birdsong & rain & redwine hangover & the need to pee. Your headachey doze is suddenly interrupted by the insistent horn & farting exhaust of a knackered Citroen van driving at top speed around the campsite. Wtf is that bastard doing? He stops, French people gather round. He's selling baguettes & croissants, that's what he's doing. They are overpriced, but taste delicious. By the time you get back to the tent the sun is coming out, the coffee is coming to the boil & the entire holiday is saved.

The worst croissants in the world: any from British caffs, that taste of cardboard & stale margarine.

― bham, Monday, 17 October 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

mmmmm croissants.

sometimes I am too hungry to even bother buttering them or anything, just gobble them straight out of the packet, yum yum yum. but if I take the time to warm them and melt some butter it's EVEN BETTER.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Ever tried those croissants out of a can which you need to microwave? BLERGH

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

croissants are made with a shedload of butter. THEY DO NOT NEED EXTRA. just have them with jam (my top tip is the turkish cherry jam from my local shop - in fact it's barely even jam, more like a really nice syrup with whole squishy cherries in it) and really good coffee. i prefer good pastries to croissants, though, especially ones with cinnamon and raisins.

― sfxxx, Monday, 17 October 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

croissants are made with a shedload of butter WHICH IS WHY EXTRA BUTTER IS SO GOOD!

I totally did this this morning with extra-rich danish butter, it was so great.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

so fuckin buttery wtf

― you have to forgive me (surm), Friday, 29 January 2010 14:51 (sixteen years ago)

So fuckin good. Best when walking back home from a party at 6am, you knock on the windows of the as-yet unopened bakery and get a fresh out of the oven croissant straight from the baker.

― Jibe, Friday, 29 January 2010 15:02 (sixteen years ago)

yeah adding butter to a croissant... bleeurgh. fire up the barf-nozzle

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 January 2010 15:05 (sixteen years ago)

hungry

― Trip Maker, Friday, 29 January 2010 15:06 (sixteen years ago)

Dunking a croissant into coffee, however gauche some may find it, is one of life's great pleasures.

― Mit der Kattzheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Michael White), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:12 (sixteen years ago)

croissant, butter, (FTH) honey

― genial anarchy (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

you're sick

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 January 2010 16:18 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah and milky coffee too. get in there.

― genial anarchy (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:18 (sixteen years ago)

i like my croissants plain and fluffy

― you have to forgive me (surm), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

oh man, coffee dunked croissants. in absence of coffee, would apply jam, butter optional. (never butter with coffee though.)

― take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

tbrr i'll just spoon butter straight in to my coffee if i don't have a croissant ready as an excuse.

― genial anarchy (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

now THIS is the worst food of all time. how the fuck did anyone think it was a good idea

― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

*400-post clusterfuck*

― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

okay, I was wrong, fresh croissants can be pleasuresome. we are, however, all entitled to our opinion. adieu!

― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

a fresh croissant is amazing

problem is that I think in my lifetime I have encountered maybe 3 fresh croissants

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

lol that was an xpost

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

[THIS THREAD HAS BEEN LOCKED BY A MODERATOR]

oh no, dan p inside the buzzer! overtime!

― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

a sad thing about average or disappointing croissants is that you eat one & nothing has changed. you could have just not.

they are generally a useful street food though. I live in a city with a good croissant scene, it's very useful.

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:39 (thirteen years ago)

everything has changed

― j., Friday, 24 May 2013 21:42 (thirteen years ago)

i was so sure this thread revive was gonna be about cronuts.

― leno dunham (get bent), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

croissants are one of life's most delicious pleasures

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:55 (thirteen years ago)

http://eater.com/archives/2013/05/10/cronuts-croissants-x-doughnuts.php

What happens when you crossbreed a croissant and a doughnut? You get something called a "cronut." Grub Street explains that starting today they'll be available at Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City. They're "made from pastry dough that's been sheeted, laminated, proofed, then fried like a doughnut and rolled in flavored sugar," and then "filled with a not-so-sweet Tahitian vanilla cream, given a fresh coat of rose glaze, and bedazzled with rose sugar."

how do you… 'proof' pastry dough?

― j., Friday, 24 May 2013 21:57 (thirteen years ago)

http://newyork.seriouseats.com/images/2013/05/20130512-251869-Dominique-Ansel-Bakery-cronut-1-edit.jpg

http://newyork.seriouseats.com/images/2013/05/20130512-251869-Dominique-Ansel-Bakery-cronut-edit.jpg

oh man

― j., Friday, 24 May 2013 22:01 (thirteen years ago)

They mean "risen" or whatever. For some reason professional kitchens refer to rising as proofing.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

Would eat 5 of those abominations without the sugar glaze.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

if you're eating a croissant outside of france you're prob doing it wrong

― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 May 2013 22:10 (thirteen years ago)

how wrong can you do it, you just put it in your mouth and chew

― j., Friday, 24 May 2013 22:13 (thirteen years ago)

have been considering making Nigella's caramel croissant pudding for some time but I fear what would happen to me

― kinder, Friday, 24 May 2013 22:15 (thirteen years ago)

bakery/coffeeshop near my work has plain, apple, chocolate, almond, ham/swiss, spinach/feta, and turkey/cheddar croissants. they are the shit. I usually go for the ham or the spinach.

― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:29 (thirteen years ago)

Ham and Swiss croissants are great, but very American. I've been gorging on plain ones recently, because a friend at a farmer's market stall gives me a few of the ones she doesn't manage to sell. So good.

Croissants and brioche are excellent substitutes for the bread component of bread pudding. Pain au raisin/cinnamon swirl Danish would probably work, too.

― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:36 (thirteen years ago)

It's usually plain or nothing for me, unless I want spinach and there's one w/spinach. The elaborate sweet ones don't really interest me even though they sound like they would be delicious.

But a plain croissant + café = yes pls, all the time. I want to taste the flaky buttery mouth-melting flavor.

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 May 2013 00:21 (thirteen years ago)

the consumption of croissants is haraam

it is a sacrilege invented by the crusaders who defeated the forces of the sultan at vienna and mocked the crescent of the prophet (peace be upon him) by creating parodic pastry in that image

http://www.vienna-concerts.com/en/vienna_croissant

inshallah

― Category:Comedy rappers by nationality (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 25 May 2013 00:25 (thirteen years ago)

will be eating with extra gusto from now on

― the late great, Saturday, 25 May 2013 00:35 (thirteen years ago)

yoink!

― parodic pastry (Aimless), Saturday, 25 May 2013 00:36 (thirteen years ago)

used to love croissants but honestly i usually feel pretty sick after eating them these days. that doesn't always stop me, of course.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 25 May 2013 00:38 (thirteen years ago)

98% of the time when I buy a croissant, I forget that bad ones taste like chewing the buttered insole of a shoe

the other 2% of the time, they are delicious. Which is why 98% happens.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2013 01:15 (thirteen years ago)

i live by a bakery that makes delicious fresh croissants every morning, so classic for me. non-fresh croissants are pretty dud.

― the late great, Saturday, 25 May 2013 03:14 (thirteen years ago)

bakery in town has kouign amanns on weekends, think i prefer them to croissants now.

― JoeStork, Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:34 (thirteen years ago)

i have wanted to eat a croissant more than anything else on earth ever since this thread reappeared

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 May 2013 18:03 (thirteen years ago)

ts: "cruh-sont" vs "kwah-sawn"

― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 May 2013 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

one time I got a choc filled croissant from a patisserie in Paris at 7am, that was a p good croissant.

― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 May 2013 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

that is the stuff of my dreams

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2013 23:05 (thirteen years ago)

classic, of course. you should never eat anything else

― markers, Sunday, 26 May 2013 05:40 (thirteen years ago)

except for all of the other things i like to eat

― markers, Sunday, 26 May 2013 05:40 (thirteen years ago)

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