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> Croissants are great for holding all kinds of tasty and nutritious fillings like eggs, liverwurst and headcheese. Yuck! A joke, I assume? They are meant for
by zabzonk 5y ago
> Croissants are great for holding all kinds of tasty and nutritious fillings like eggs, liverwurst and headcheese.
Yuck! A joke, I assume? They are meant for dipping in your coffee, or perhaps having with a little extra butter and marmalade or jam.
I've actually made croissants from scratch a few times - it's not hard as it might seem, but is a bit of an effort.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y agoThere are both sweet croissants and salty croissant. More or less they are like bread
- Zababa 5y agoFrom experience, both are very good. They're also great just alone if you get them fresh.
- 1MachineElf 5y agoSavory croissants are a thing. Ham and cheese, smoked salmon and capers, chicken salad and lettuce, egg omelet with prsto and caramelized onions, headcheese/liverwurst if you're lucky, etc.
- zabzonk 5y agoNay, this all wrong, though you can get them in some disreputable sandwich shops - but liverwurst???? You want to be sitting on a patio, in the south of France, just after the nice baker lady in a van has been and delivered your fresh croissants, and maybe a baguette or two, and with a cup of freshly brewed coffee at your elbow, and a big slab of Normandy butter, some jam, some marmalade. There will be bees humming in the lavender and/or jasmine. There will be no liverwurst!!!
- Zababa 5y ago> just after the nice baker lady in a van has been and delivered your fresh croissants Are we talking about the same France here? You go to the bakery, you don't get things delivred to you.
- zabzonk 5y agoEvery time I have been to France (in the countryside) I have bakery stuff (and other stuff) delivered. If you read any modern novels on French life you will see this happening. Do you expect people all drive into town to get their croissant?
- Zababa 5y agoI actually live in France, and yes, we usually drive into town to get our croissants when we're in the countryside.
- zabzonk 5y agoMust be a long queue outside the boulangerie at breakfast time then? And I have lived in France, and French Switzerland, myself, so I am somewhat aware of what I am talking about.
- Zababa 5y agoNot really, but we never go to places where a lot of people go. Having a few (3 to 5) people in the queue can happen but not much more.
- slumdev 5y agoMost of them already live in a town. Not every French person owns a 100-acre vineyard.
- 1MachineElf 5y ago>no liverwurst!!! Substitute pâté or foie gras.
- throw0101a 5y ago> There will be no liverwurst!!! Poppycock. Next you'll be saying that pineapple doesn't belong on pizza…
- graeme 5y agoWhat region are you based in? From my limited experience in Europe I’ve seen plenty of croissant sandwiches.
- hourislate 5y agoInteresting that you find filling them with nutritious food is yuck but dipping them in coffee or adding sugar in the form of marmalade or jam to a starch/fat is good.