Am I misremembering croissants?

[Hoohaahoo]

They used to be rounder didn’t they? I’m sure their little feet used to come round to meet in the middle if you get me, but now they’re all so straight.

Did I dream it or have they changed?

I miss the ones that have had a jam or whatever filling baked into the centre already.

If you say cross-ont not kwason, because you think kwason sounds pretentious, how do you say pain au chocolat? As one who says them both the French way, but with a twinge of self consciousness, I am interested. Also pain au raisin.

Sorry, hold the phone.

That video posted above from 'School of Etiquette' showed the man eating a croissant with butter, jam and grated cheese.

Grated cheese. With the butter and jam. Is this a French thing?? Surely not.

@importantwater

I go for cwasson and pan-o-shocola. I think I probably avoid saying pain-au-raisin (I don't like them anyway) as the French pronunciation just seems a step too far!

Actually, I quite often say kroy-sant and payn-o-chock-o-latt-ay in my exaggerated Yorkshire accent if I'm with people I know. I also quite often say skizz-ors and Wed-nez-day.

Well now I want croissants! Haven’t had one in ages. Definitely with bits broken off and buttered/jammed as you go, never sliced or made into a sandwich

I like mine with a slice of ham and cheese warmed in the oven.

This recent obsession with saying that using the correct pronunciation of croissant totally baffles me. I've never heard anyone mispronounce it and I don't exactly live in the middle of London - or Paris.

Surely back when everyone learnt French at school and not Spanish or Mandarin, we all knew how to pronounce it and therefore just did?

My French DH splits his croissant lengthways and spread jam on it then eats it like a sandwich BUT he is tres uncouth so ignore him.

As for pronunciation I give it 100% franglais Kwassan, pan oh chocolar, pan oh rayzun

Argh... I meant "saying that using the correct pronunciation is pretentious"

I will no longer be able to eat 'kwasonts' without looking for their little feet!

Pan oh shockolate I think but pan oh raisin how is raisin meant to be said.

@feesh
There are a few legends about how the croissant came to be created. My favourite is that a baker in Vienna working at night, heard rumbling noises, that proved to be the Turkish Ottoman troops attempting to tunnel under the walls of the besieged city. The city was alerted, and victorious, and as a reward the bakers guild made pastries in the crescent shape on the Ottoman flag.
Later, Viennese pastry shops became popular in Paris, and so the croissant emigrated to France.

I like my 🥐 🥐 🥐 🥐 dunked in hot chocolate!

I have French family who dunk their kwassons into their cafe au lait. I prefer to open mine, add extra butter & microwave for 15 seconds. Not the bakery ones (too flaky) but the drier ones you get in packets. I'm a disgrace!

Mmm had these yesterday warmed in the oven. I had one that had chocolate sprinkles on the top and through the middle that I filled with slices of strawberries and cheese and one that was plain that I filled with ham, lettuce and cheese - delicieux 🥐 🥐

Just come back from France. Was only served 'straight' ones

Im about to eat a croque madam 😋

I took a couple of Sainsbury's round ones to work the other day, stuffed with smoked cheese. Made a lovely change from a boring sarnie.

They are called wasn'ts in our house because that's what the dc used to call them.

Cheese is the only acceptable addition to a croissant, that salty cream cheese from Brittany is the best. Never jam.

I live in France. At my local boulangerie the croissants are curved but they are definitely 100% butter.
Supermarket-bought croissants are either straight or curved.

Hoohaahoo I feel that there is a slight melancholy to your tale and perhaps your are searching for a remembrance of things passed by, or of lost time.......possibly a recherché du temps perdu?
Maybe if you ate a madeleine it would all come flooding back to you.

I like that salty cream cheese from Brittany with sharp black cherry jam on toasted brioche.

I've just recently discovered that the bakery near my work has freshly baked croissants every morning, at the exact time I pass it.

This is very bad news for my waist line!

@dellacucina Morrison's sell them!! I have them in my oven now! They also do pain au chocolat too!

In 2016 Tesco said their shoppers were unable to deal with curved ones, so the started only making straight ones. How did this manifest? Breakdown in the bread section?

Marks and Spencer frozen croissants are really very good. I'm a tear-off-a piece-and-dip-in-coffee croissant eater. As PP wrote, they really don't need more butter. Also those canned jus-rol things are rank... More like American crescent dinner rolls than beautiful flaky, shardy croissants. And way too salty. I'd rather just have toast.

I can also recommend warm croissant filled with Maltesers spread. Tis yum.