Wrong Shape Croissants

[Bazile]

This is outrageous - i'll be writing to the times and my my MP .

I call for a ban on Tescos supermarkets .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35610747

//Apparently it's all down to 'the spreadability factor'. According to Tesco, most shoppers find it easier to spread jam, or their preferred filling, on a straighter shape with a single sweeping motion//

I didn't realise that spreading jam was technical so difficult

Are you all behind me ?

[chokkie]

How ridiculous, and what a lot of nonsense! Won't be buying any croissants from Tesco any time soon. There is nothing like breaking off the crispy "knob" of flaky pastry from each end of the pastry and dipping it in coffee or hot chocolate! Won't be able to do that with a "straight" croissant. I hadn't noticed that it was particularly hard to spread butter or something on a crescent shaped one. The world's (or rather Tesco-world) is going bonnkers!. Chox.

[Baldric]

Don't forget that other well known Baking Problem,
Doughnuts no longer looking like Fanny's.

[marval]

I shan't go to Tescos then. I love croissants, but they are not meant to be straight.

[Baldric]

Oops, forgot the link!

http://mrlifseystshirtemporium.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/fanny_cradock_doughnuts_t-shirt-288x293.jpg

[Mamyalynne]

They are meant to be straight if made with all butter in parts of France at least - the shape differentiates.

[Bazile]

Is there going to be an EU directive on the shape and size of croissants ?

This will be of enormous importance to us , given that we are going to vote to stay in Europe

[Mamyalynne]

No.

[Khandro]

It's also a matter of aesthetics, the curve of the crescent blends nicely with the roundness of the plate, it should be augmented with a bowl of coffee and then a Gauloise on Boulevard Montparnasse in Spring. Ahh!

[jomifl]

Baldric, have you been sneaking looks at Fanny's doughnuts?

[Baldric]

I surely have, they're luvverly

[Zacs-Master]

I was listening to Radio 1 today ( I know, I know) and the Dj just thought croissant was a random word.....didn't know it meant Crescent. Jeez.

[Mamyalynne]

Goodness knows what he thinks Éclair means.

[Metaphysicalus]

Since croissant in French means crescent in English - will they still be allowed to call them that? Or will they need to label them tout droits?