I was hanging around Trinoma’s expansive supermarket, and after getting a free sample of Nescafe intense blend coffee mix, I headed towards French Baker for a whole wheat croissant. I was initially nervous about the taste as compared to refined flour-butter croissant, but the high-fiber version turned out to be just as tasty.
They say that croissants came about after the French won a victory against the Moors in the decisive Battle of Tours. The bakers of France decided to honor this event by baking a pastry in the shape of the crescent, a symbol of Islam (hence, the term, “croissant”). By eating this symbolic crescent, the people of France can relive their victory again and again.
I’m thinking, if the French tried pulling that stunt in this modern age, the Danish pastry will soon have company among the baked goods that are firebombed in Europe.
There’s another story that traces Croissants to Austrian bakers in 1683 who in the wee hours of the morning heard Ottoman Turks tunneling to get to the city.
They alerted the troops of the impending attack to celebrate this victory, they commissioned a pastry in the shape of the Islamic crescent.
Whichever origin story you believe, croissants are made of puff pastry, which was ironically developed in the Islamic world
Lies. The French NEVER won a battle.
i still think it looks like a puffed up golden brown stealth bomber… but that’s just me malay mo Jimmy might agree with me hehe