"How do you like your croissants?
Well if you shop at Tesco, you will only be able to buy straight ones...... And yes, some French people are upset."
Always upset about something aint they, i guess we'll just have to prepare for operation stack for a few weeks til tesco amend their high fulooting ways.
(Please note that the spelling of "fulooting" may be incorrect, as i don't believe i've ever used it in a written sentence"  |
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"How do you like your croissants?
Well if you shop at Tesco, you will only be able to buy straight ones...... And yes, some French people are upset.
Always upset about something aint they, i guess we'll just have to prepare for operation stack for a few weeks til tesco amend their high fulooting ways.
(Please note that the spelling of "fulooting" may be incorrect, as i don't believe i've ever used it in a written sentence" "
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"How do you like your croissants?
Well if you shop at Tesco, you will only be able to buy straight ones...... And yes, some French people are upset.
Always upset about something aint they, i guess we'll just have to prepare for operation stack for a few weeks til tesco amend their high fulooting ways.
(Please note that the spelling of "fulooting" may be incorrect, as i don't believe i've ever used it in a written sentence" "
I believe it is 'high-falutin' 
As the word means crescent, how can you have a straight one?
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"Surely if they are straight they can't be called croissants as the meaning of the word is crescent, hence their shape x"
Correct;
And croissants originated in Austria;
As did several other similar pastries; many of which are the same pastry, but not crescent shaped; including the ( non-crescent) chocolate ones and the spiral " pain au raisins".
All are called , in French, "Viennoiseries"; introduced, and made popular, by a Viennese baker who came to Paris in the early 1800s.
So if it's not curved , it should be simply a viennoise...
Useless fact of the day:
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"How do you like your croissants?
Well if you shop at Tesco, you will only be able to buy straight ones...... And yes, some French people are upset."
If they piss some French people off, straight ones get my vote
Better for dunking, anyway  |
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