It makes you appreciate how good a new food has to be to break into the culinary ouvre. Think about how long croissants and doughnuts have been around (since at

It makes you appreciate how good a new food has to be to break into the culinary ouvre. Think about how long croissants and doughnuts have been around (since at least the 13th and 15th centuries), and boom, cronuts pop up out of nowhere in 2013 and seem to have taken the pastry world by storm. 10 years later, doughnuts and croissants are still a staple at every bakery, from fancy shops to fast food places like dunkin' donuts, and while cronuts are still around, they are more of a niche thing, somewhat forgotten. It certainly did not have the staying power of, say, pizza margherita...