France, Britain at swords points over croissants

Yes, that is a cappuccino with the curved croissant. Perhaps it's an indication of a closer alliance growing between French and Italian breakfasts as the UK and Britain negotiate over new treaty terms... 

I think they need an impartial judge, like me, to go test out both shapes of the croissant. I might need to stop in Italy  for the cappuccino. And since I like yogurt for breakfast too, I might have to go to Greece and Bulgaria to settle which ones better.

These matters are too weighty to be settled by a single judge—a panel of judges is needed. My bag is always packed...

Rob...are we flying Norwegian? perhaps we can check their breakfast on the way...

Those straight croissants look suspiciously like the ones I see in American bakeries.  Conspiracy?

Perhaps that's a result of the U.S. and Britain sharing a "special relationship," which as Prime Minister Hugh Grant famously pointed out can be a "baaaad relationship."

Sacrebleu!!  I'm reading an article about famous French baker, Frédéric Pichard, (best croissant in Paris 2011).  I direct readers to the photo of the croissant served to the author in the courtyard of the bakery.

http://www.farine-mc.com/2014/...rederic-pichard.html

Could this mean M. Pichard, too, should be thrown out of the European Union?

Sacre bleu, indeed! PortMoresby has uncovered a dirty little secret which will not go unexposed for Gumbo readers! Here is the offending baked good, which perhaps should be called not croissant but 'bâtonant.' 

While I would not hold its shape against it, I might hold a bit of cherry preserves against it... 

I feel it is my duty to sacrifice an hour while I'm in the city in April to seek out this misshapen example of the French baker's art at 88 rue Cambronne, and witness the outrage for myself.  Five years ago, when judged best in Paris, were they shaped thusly?  I promise to search and destroy...several, no doubt.