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Thinking ahead here, if you are going to defend the croissant in response to my irrational rage thread gripe, please do it here as the positive thread for lovers of this patronising French breakfast snack already exist in general issues, and I don't want to be accused of hijacking the irrational rage thread. Hell why I am even having to explain myself.


Louisa.

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I'm trying to understand how a croissant can be patronising, or indeed pointless. What next - an aggressive pork pie? A bashful kebab? Or perhaps a hopelessly misguided strawberry yoghurt?


Alternatively, someone is drunk and/or talking out of their.......


OK, mystery over.

Had some great croissants in France recently (Castries, near Montpellier). Went to the 'boulangerie' nearly every morning for them. Packed with non-middle-class French people it was. The croissants were delicious - had them with apricot jam and a strong coffee on the side.


I suppose they're pointless, though, as are most things I enjoy.

I do like the occasional Almond Croissant but they are not really permitted on my low GI Carb diet..


Plain butter croissants a bit dull. Most of them just turn to dust when you try to eat them..


Empty carbs. No nutritional value. Poor breakfast choice..


Decent bread toasted with peanut butter (no added sugar)will set you up for the morning.


Foxy

DaveR Wrote:

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> I'm trying to understand how a croissant can be patronizing



I have to say, that was my first thought on the matter too.



I love a pain au chocolat. And if I'm feeling a bit dirty I like a chocolate croissant from Tescos (not even close to being the same thing).

They're unhealthy, they are made up of pretty bland and basic ingredients most of the time. Pointless food article. They're patronising primarily because they're French, you could spray a turd in Chanel no.5 and because it's French it would be superior to any other turd. You get the idea. Muck.


Louisa.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I'm sure DF is right about dubious nutritional

> value of croissants... but "turn to dust"? No no

> no no...


Ahh..I think he's been eating the straight version (made with margarine)


The butter one's are curved and the others made with 'good ol'marge, wos wrong wiv that' aren't


I've never had a proper croissant that 'turns to dust', but then being an non-undercover guardianista, i'm unlikely too


I like the Observer and croissants

Louisa Wrote:

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> They're unhealthy, they are made up of pretty

> bland and basic ingredients most of the time.

> Pointless food article. They're patronising

> primarily because they're French, you could spray

> a turd in Chanel no.5 and because it's French it

> would be superior to any other turd. You get the

> idea. Muck.

>

> Louisa.


Oh yes we get the idea

I have to agree with comments in the other thread. I think the doughnuts served up in Lidl are actually very tasty and full of flavour. Far superior to anything offered in sainsburys/tesco et al in store bakeries. A croissant is fundamentally a pastry, and not being French, I was brought up with the expectation of pastry covering a pie not something you eat as a breakfast item. It seems futile to me. A doughnut on the other hand, is filling and contains lots of sugar so it's tasty (nutritional value 0). Doughnuts are not patronising either. When I say patronising let me give an example. If I go into a supermarket to get a sandwich meal deal, I usually go for the basic sandwich option which adds up to roughly 3 quid. It fills me up, does the job and is cheap. Some people go into a supermarket and don't care if they have the meal deal, they'd rather go for the 'extra special' or 'finest' or whatever patronising phrases are used to get an extra couple of quid out of you by the supermarkets. The sandwich is NO different to the basic one, other than the wrapper and wording for the filling using. It's patronising. The same goes for a croissant, if I saw a bacon sarny for 2 quid in a caf it would fill me up and set my day off without patronising me. If I go into a supermarket or posh cafe and pay the best part of a fiver (including coffee and fruit juice etc) I'm being patronised by what is in effect a bit of pastry.


Louisa.

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