I have a problem: I generaly have to write + vote because I can never remember how to spell coissaunt(sp?)...

The idea is to make sure that the c word is somewhere on the left between the tagline and "idea"...
-- RobertKidney, Aug 30 2001

Why? The c word doesn't need displaying at all.
-- Lemon, Aug 30 2001


There are more letters in croissant than you think, for a start.
-- UnaBubba, Aug 30 2001


...and lots of butter.
-- beauxeault, Aug 30 2001


Incidentally, I wonder if the croissant is one of those "pretend everything was invented by the French" things. The crescent-shaped pastry was invented by a Viennese baker who, up early to do the days' baking, heard sounds of tunnelling under his bakery and alerted the defending army, who used the information to defeat the intrusion attempt of the Turkish forces laying siege to Vienna. For his role in the victory, the emperor awarded the baker an exclusive franchise on a new pastry creation. The crescent shape was used to recall the crescent in the Turks' flags.

But how did it get a French name (was French the language of the Austrian court?), and why do people think it's a French creation?
-- beauxeault, Aug 30 2001


Maybe it's the French letters in its name, as in yours?
-- UnaBubba, Aug 30 2001


'French croissant was used to translate German Hörnchen, the name given by the Viennese to this pastry, which was first baked in 1689 to commemorate the raising of the siege of Vienna by the Turks, whose symbol was the crescent.' (From Dictionary.com.)
-- angel, Aug 30 2001


Oui! Un Croissant d' Guerre!
-- Dog Ed, Aug 30 2001


has anyone heard of the trojan croissant?
-- po, Sep 02 2001


I haven't. Anyone else?
-- angel, Sep 03 2001


Ribbed for your personal pleasure?
-- UnaBubba, Sep 03 2001


You could just write pastry. Or copy the spelling of croissant from one of these annotations on to a piece of paper and blu-tack it to the side of your computer screen. Or just not bother.
-- CoolerKing, Sep 03 2001


Given the above, a croissanwich with a little sausage in it would have more integrity.
-- ensalata, Jan 24 2003



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