A Brief Word on Croissants

Have you ever had a croissants? I don't mean "have you ever had one of those rolls that are stereotypically french and can be bought from the supermarket by the bakery section", no, I mean have you ever been to France and actually had a croissant? I am saying this as there is ludicrously strange difference in quality between the French croissants and the ones I've had everywhere else. I'm not sure if it has something to do with everyone not knowing the true recipe, or with the fact that eating a croissant in Paris kind of feels simultaneously badass and cliche, but croissants (pronounced kwassan) are just so much better in the land of the French. Sure, croissants bought from other places can be bloody good to but there literally is something about the French ones that makes them better.

The cover photo of this post is a photo of a really good croissant that I made once in London, but I must say that the taste relied heavily on the filling I stuffed in it. Here in Paris, you can be completely content eating your croissant plain and then following it with a pain au chocolat and then sitting there wondering which of the two you liked more because they were both good even though one had chocolate in it. In fact, the stereotype that french people heading to the bakery first thing in the morning to buy fresh baguettes and croissants is actually true, and they'd be mad not to because if you buy a baguette or a croissant first thing in the morning, when they're still warm from the oven they just came from, it makes them so much better. Just yesterday my girlfriend surprised me by coming home with a bag of fresh croissants and a pain au chocolat and it was like Christmas! In conclusion, if you're going to buy a croissant, for the love of God buy it from France (if you can), don't buy them from your supermarket, and don't get someone to post one to you as it'll be stale by the time it arrives, actually come here and buy one*. Cheers for reading.

*Most likely an elaborate ploy to lure you over here so I can invite you to a bar or cafe for catch-up drinks