France is facing the greatest crisis it's ever seen: fresh-baked, hand-rolled croissants are being r - Polidicks

[quote]Croissants 'dying out' in France The true French croissant – a Gallic gastronomic icon - is dying out, baking purists have warned, amid claims by one federation that half of the buttery, crescent-shaped pastries found in so-called “home-made” bakeries are industrially made and heated up on site. [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/63663010/croissant_2089853b.jpg[/img] For the past ten years, the number of “industrial” – frozen or pre-prepared - croissants sold in France’s 30,000 boulangeries has rocketed, baking experts say. “Around one viennoiserie(croissants and other cakes) in two in our ‘traditional’ bakeries is now industrial,” Philippe Godard, spokesman for the French bakery and patisserie business federation said on Wednesday. Since 1998, French bread sellers can only call themselves boulangers if they make their own bread in situ. “But the rule doesn’t extend to viennoiseries,” said Jean-Pierre Crouzet, president of the national confederation of bakers and patissiers. “One can be a baker and not make ones’ viennoiseries oneself,” he said. The industrial croissants are made by big groups like Coup de Pâtes, which offers 700 pre-prepared bakery products, from lemon tarts to chocolate éclairs and pizzas, and almost a dozen varieties of croissant. They insist they use top-quality butter and respect strict food hygiene norms. But makers of true home-made croissants are hitting back. Pierre Couderc, a baker in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, has placed a large sign in his window that reads: “All our products are prepared on site. They have not been chosen from a catalogue and delivered frozen by the industry.” Discerning customers can taste the difference, the bakery’s croissant-maker-in-chief Eddy Le Tourrier insisted. “Our croissants are not rubbery, nor are they full of air. They are consistent and at the same time light, unctuous and crispy when they come out of the oven,” he told France Info radio. Other makers of true French croissants complain they cannot compete with the lower prices of industrially made fare, which are sold at around 20 centimes apiece in bakery catalogues. “I make my patisseries myself but I’m losing money,” warned Sophie, a baker in a chic quarter of the 1st arrondissement. “It’s not on. While they haven’t resolved the problem of the cost of home-made croissants, lots of bakers will call on the industry,” she said. The national federation said it was looking into ways of making it clearer which bakeries sold truly home-made products. In the mean time, the bakers’ federation of the Loir-et-Cher department has decided to take unilateral action. Starting next Monday it will launch a new “home-made viennoiseries” label local bakers can stick on their shop windows. Though considered quintessentially French, croissants were first made by the bakers of Vienna to celebrate a victory against the Turkish armies that had been besieging the city. They are said to have been brought to France by Marie-Antoinette as a 14-year old bride hankering for comfort food from her native Austria, hence the French term viennoiserie.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9359750/Croissants-dying-out-in-France.html[/url]

Oh christ, the humanity!

This is exponentially worse than the crisis in Greece.

SACRE BLEU! Yeah, i just skimmed it, but still. This sucks. Nothing premade and frozen can beat a freshly baked original. Besides, something as delicate as croissants are something you will always be able to notice the quality difference between fresh and frozen. You just can't get that flakiness.

RIP France, you will be missed.

this is on par with WW1 and 2 for them

Oh god, this is just tragic. I send my condolences to the French.

Good maybe france will stop being a thing.

[QUOTE=SPARLOCK;36586899]Oh god, this is just tragic. I send my condolences to the French.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://facepunch.com/image.php?u=500626&dateline=1339705931[/IMG]

This is the kind of horrible shit you have to deal with instead when you have good healthcare. Thank god I live in the US.

God fucking damnit next time I go there I'll be paranoid as hell as to which ones are real and which ones aren't

Oh fuck we're going to be poor

Do they still taste as good?

And now we Americans can begin our plan for invasion while the French are distracted by the American engineered rise in cheap industrial frozen croissants... It's the perfect plan!

It's time for mass suicides gentlemen. Who's first?

I've eaten hand made croissants in France before, and y'know what? They were fucking delicious. Don't get me wrong, 'industrial made' croissants that you buy from a super market are still good - better than most shit you'll buy there... but they're still nowhere near on par with a proper, fresh made one.

Quick, notify the U.S. to send troops into France to stabilize the region. Make sure they go through with these new croissants. It's the U.S. way if it's pre-made.

[QUOTE=areolop;36587378]Oh fuck we're going to be poor[/QUOTE] oh god im crying the french president must have sent the un all their money by accident and now they were going to be poor :'(

[QUOTE=SpasticPinoy;36587429]Quick, notify the U.S. to send troops into France to stabilize the region. Make sure they go through with these new croissants. It's the U.S. way if it's pre-made.[/QUOTE] And here we have someone who understands the plan!

well at least french women exist with stereolab gone that's all about france has going for it anymore

NO nnoooo

MON DIEU!

Shit this is up there with the french revolution

I am now sad... and hungry. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kacpo.gif[/IMG]

Send in the troops, now.

[QUOTE=theshagged;36588830]I am now sad... and hungry. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kacpo.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] That's a weird case of morning wood :v:

Surprised no French people posted yet.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;36588947]Surprised no French people posted yet.[/QUOTE] That's because we have no idea what this is all about. Plus I'm not so fond of croissants anyway. Although that's still sad that everything's slowly getting industrialized here.

But hand made croissants are damn good.

[highlight]NOOO[/highlight]