[Hencredible Casanova]

Cronut = hybrid of croissant/donut

The cronut was create by Dominique Ansel, a SoHo baker.

Throngs of people in NYC wait hours in line outside Ansel's bakery well before it opens to get their cronuts. There is now a limit of 2 cronuts per person as there was one point where people were ordering many at once and reselling them to people in line for huge profits (up to $40/cronut). Morning batches would sell out in 20 minutes.

Aerial shot of people waiting in line (today):



Dominique Ansel talking about how he makes a cronut:

This is precisely what's wrong with the US.

[MrXY]

That's crazy. People who aren't starving to say the least waiting in line for hours for sugar and white flour

[j r]

dupe

[j r]

In general, information technology is a wonderful thing, but it is steroids to the hive mind.

It's also weird how much people discount their time.

[JimNortonFan]

Boredom, a first world problem.

Instead of making the article a negative showing the stupidity of your fellow Americans, make it a positive. Think about all the loser Betas who are standing in that line with some cronut crazed woman. They're getting their breakfast after having taken in a chick flick the night before (and that's all that happened the night before). The woman didn't bring money so BetaBoy pays.

You are not there. You are out being a real man.

Go to a donut store, perhaps one run by a family. Order one or two or three or a dozen. Leave a tip in the tip cup, enjoy real life.

[Nolecbo]

New Yorkers are such lemmings sometimes. Ansel Bakery used to be a great place to grab lunch in that neighborhood, hopefully this dies down soon.

[MidniteSpecial]

I got an open bar party in the city today if y'all down Casanova.

[JimNortonFan]

Look at some of the pics of the guys in these lines. Rename it the incel bakery.

[Vicious]

Haha I admit to lining up for that when I was in NYC last month. Even mentioned it in my trip log. 45 min wait, it was crazy. To my defense I was there on vacation, lived 3 blocks away and gamed while in line.

What was the cronut like?
Too damn sweet. How anyone can eat that for breakfast is beyond me.

[soup]

(07-03-2013 12:58 PM)MidniteSpecial Wrote:  

I got an open bar party in the city today if y'all down Casanova.

where?

[polymath]

who has time for this shit?

[Vaun]

(07-03-2013 01:36 PM)soup Wrote:  

(07-03-2013 12:58 PM)MidniteSpecial Wrote:  

I got an open bar party in the city today if y'all down Casanova.

where?

+1 .. where?

[Timoteo]

I imagine part of the appeal is being able to brag that you actually got one of these famous treats. And to pay more than what most people make per hour to taste one? FUCK THAT.

[Parlay44]

Cronuts are the new cupcakes. Fatties always need a new obsession.

I saw this on the news the other morning. These things are selling for $5 each.

I'm sure they're good and all. I'll wait til the hype dies down and the price drops.

The big question is: How do we use this new fad to get laid?

[void]

american = consumer
u could probably make a cheaper and better tasting one at home.
flour and sugar are the cheapest non food

[Brodiaga]

Must be the same fucking idiots who waited in line for new iPhones.

[Veloce]

I gotta jump in on the other side here, I'm sure that's not a big surprise.

You guys are going overboard. Remember, there was a time in history when neither the croissant OR modern-day doughnut even existed. When Austrian pastry chefs brought the croissant to Paris, it was an immediate hit and blew up all over France. I can easily imagine this line happening in Paris at one of the better patisseries. In fact, people wait in line all over the world for "frivolous" things like pastries or junk food. There's a cake shop in Tokyo that sells out of everything within 2 hours and people line up around the block for it to open. It's not a distinctly American phenomenon.

I give major props to Ansel. He was a very well-known and respected pastry chef years before he came up with the Cronut and the guy has paid some serious dues to hone his craft. He was the pastry chef at Daniel in NYC for 6 years, anyone familiar with the high end dining scene knows that's some serious shit. If anything, he's what's RIGHT about America, you can work your ass off here, innovate something, and make a fortune from it. I don't see what the problem is.

[MikeCF]

I'll bet that no one is talking or making friends in line.

Everyone is on his or her smart phone.

And lots of people are sighing and complaining about the long line.

Even in public we Americans manage to alienate ourselves.

[Veloce]

As an addendum to my post...

I wouldn't be caught dead in that line. I agree with all the assertions and generalizations about the people waiting in that line. Even though they've been nothing but good for business, I'm fucking sick of self-proclaimed "foodies". The one key difference between foreign food cultures and American food culture is hype. In other countries you can go out to a nice meal, grab a pastry, a bottle of wine, a bowl of noodles, whatever it is you're eating, and understand that it's either "good", or "not good". I've never seen or heard of people deliberating for hours talking about food, where to get the next meal, where they've eaten as if it's a badge of honor or a rite of passage, hyping things up and saying things like "that meal was life-changing" or "these cupcakes are amaze-balls" or "I need more Nueske's bacon in my life". I talked to quite a few people in Paris about this and they agreed and found it odd that anyone would act that way about food. Maybe Prosal can weigh in.

American food culture is young, so that might have something to do with it, but the fact that social media is so intertwined with the food culture is what pisses me off. Going to a new restaurant is now on the same level as seeing an awesome band play when they're still unheard of.

I just hashtag searched #cronut on instagram and there are over 5,000 posts. 5,000 morons that found it necessary to post a picture of a pastry to their instagram.

[Timoteo]

(07-03-2013 06:01 PM)thedude3737 Wrote:  

As an addendum to my post...

I wouldn't be caught dead in that line. I agree with all the assertions and generalizations about the people waiting in that line. Even though they've been nothing but good for business, I'm fucking sick of self-proclaimed "foodies". The one key difference between foreign food cultures and American food culture is hype. In other countries you can go out to a nice meal, grab a pastry, a bottle of wine, a bowl of noodles, whatever it is you're eating, and understand that it's either "good", or "not good". I've never seen or heard of people deliberating for hours talking about food, where to get the next meal, where they've eaten as if it's a badge of honor or a rite of passage, hyping things up and saying things like "that meal was life-changing" or "these cupcakes are amaze-balls" or "I need more Nueske's bacon in my life". I talked to quite a few people in Paris about this and they agreed and found it odd that anyone would act that way about food. Maybe Prosal can weigh in.

American food culture is young, so that might have something to do with it, but the fact that social media is so intertwined with the food culture is what pisses me off. Going to a new restaurant is now on the same level as seeing an awesome band play when they're still unheard of.

I just hashtag searched #cronut on instagram and there are over 5,000 posts. 5,000 morons that found it necessary to post a picture of a pastry to their instagram.

You touched on another annoying social media trend...taking pictures of everything you're about to eat when you're eating out, like it's art or something.

[Kingsley Davis]

(07-03-2013 06:11 PM)Timoteo Wrote:  

(07-03-2013 06:01 PM)thedude3737 Wrote:  

As an addendum to my post...

I wouldn't be caught dead in that line. I agree with all the assertions and generalizations about the people waiting in that line. Even though they've been nothing but good for business, I'm fucking sick of self-proclaimed "foodies". The one key difference between foreign food cultures and American food culture is hype. In other countries you can go out to a nice meal, grab a pastry, a bottle of wine, a bowl of noodles, whatever it is you're eating, and understand that it's either "good", or "not good". I've never seen or heard of people deliberating for hours talking about food, where to get the next meal, where they've eaten as if it's a badge of honor or a rite of passage, hyping things up and saying things like "that meal was life-changing" or "these cupcakes are amaze-balls" or "I need more Nueske's bacon in my life". I talked to quite a few people in Paris about this and they agreed and found it odd that anyone would act that way about food. Maybe Prosal can weigh in.

American food culture is young, so that might have something to do with it, but the fact that social media is so intertwined with the food culture is what pisses me off. Going to a new restaurant is now on the same level as seeing an awesome band play when they're still unheard of.

I just hashtag searched #cronut on instagram and there are over 5,000 posts. 5,000 morons that found it necessary to post a picture of a pastry to their instagram.

You touched on another annoying social media trend...taking pictures of everything you're about to eat when you're eating out, like it's art or something.

Remind me of a quote in the Fellini flick Roma. "The more you eat, the more you shit," or "No matter what you eat, it turns to shit."

[Exactaking]

[JimNortonFan]

[Sebastian]

Sometimes I don't agree with things that bash americans. I am not american. lol
it would be the same for people in other countries. they do have things called smart phone.....

anyways, maybe I should sell this at my store....I need to find a baker who can make it...

(07-03-2013 05:50 PM)MikeCF Wrote:  

I'll bet that no one is talking or making friends in line.

Everyone is on his or her smart phone.

And lots of people are sighing and complaining about the long line.

Even in public we Americans manage to alienate ourselves.

[Hammer]

(07-03-2013 12:03 PM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:  

This is precisely what's wrong with the US.

I wish it was just in the US. Waiting in a line that long for a little fried dough? These are real life zombies.