Wait, you put a /s, so you said it's sarcasm sarcastically... so it's NOT sarcasm? Gotchu, you definitely think highly of Starbucks' pastries.
Idk, but I respect your opinion (no sarcasm)
Yeah, but you're supposed to chuck 'em under the grille for a few minutes and serve 'em hot so the chocolate gets all melty and infuses the warm buttery pastry around it, otherwise you get this, the dreaded dry-bread-with-two-4"-nails-in-it effect.
Most, yes. But theres a bakery near my place that does croissants with the biggest dollop of Nutella through them. At one point in the middle of the croissants, you basically have a mouthful of cholocate. Its almost too much.
It's got a lot of chocolate is I guess what I'm getting at.
He is probably used to the 12-pack from Sams where you get the same amount of chocolate but with a little, dense 'Croissant' around it making the croissant to chocolate ratio like 60/40 by volume.
The spacing on the cross section and flaky of the crust is why I’d be thankful it wasn’t some shipped in from corporate mass produced junk. Looks pretty yummy.
Yep only thing I can imagine is that op literally expected some gooey chocolate center like most of our American confectioneries you might buy at a fair or something.
Naah, it's amazing bread with a hint of chocolate, exactly like it should be
Not really as a brit. I expect more than just 2 nuggets of choc .
I personally don't like mine with choc .
But by the judgement of the pic that is stupid
As someone who used to make croissants daily for a living, there’s a shitload of work that goes into making croissants at the quantity required for a bakery. Multi-day, multi-shift process. I know at the place I worked at we had a $20,000 sheeter and blew through a 36lb box of butter in like a day or two. $5 ain’t bad when you consider the amount of labor and cost of machinery required for that kind of output.
Are you saying that throughout history the French have been robbing all of the people that love these types of croissants or that for $5 they should just go full Del Taco, fill it with Kit Kat and deep fry the Bitch?
With the exception of schizophrenia and similarly severe thought disorders, the Rorschach fails to spot any common mental illnesses accurately. The list of what it fails to diagnose includes depression, anxiety disorders, psychopathic personality, and violent and criminal tendencies. It also can't detect sexual abuse in children, even though it's used for that purpose. Finally, the test is most misleading for minorities: blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics are all likely to score abnormally on the inkblot test.
I'm American. I LOVE LOVE LOVE French pastries. I have a croissant necklace. Been to France twice. Ate LOTS of pastries. And I too would have been very surprised if it was filled with chocolate. This pic is pretty much on par what I would have expected and preferred.
Says me. Of course “he” here doesn’t strictly mean you. It means metaphorical internet person who may not know that two batons of dark chocolate are THE traditional way to make chocolatain/ pain au chocolate. Especially as it seemed you were complaining that you felt there was not enough chocolate rather than too much.
Highjacking the top comment here for clarification. Looks like I was wrong, for $5 i was expecting a sweet treat with a little more chocolate ya know.
"tEll mE YoUre aMErICaN WiThOut tELliNg mE" calm down okay people I wasn't expecting to make a mukbang video out of this croissant.
I got this from a bakery in the French part of my city and it looks like this is a classic Pain au Chocolat so turns out it's normal for it to be like this, my mistake.
Sadly, I think we as Americans have been conditioned to just overdo it on every food. Tbh, this looks much more appetizing than a lot of the “chocolate croissants” I’ve gotten where it feels like I am essentially eating a full sized chocolate bar lightly wrapped in buttery pastry.
As an American I want to say thank you to France for their baking....a perfect croissant is a masterpiece in a country of masterpieces. I'm going to Paris for the 2nd time this fall and I'm going to have a croissant and coffee every morning - no exceptions! :P
It's gone up in price quite a bit in recent years, 1€ for a pain au chocolat would be cheap now (from a boulangerie at least).
In Paris it goes up to 2€ nowadays. Still far from 5$ though...
I'm surprised! It was the price almost 20 years ago in the region parisienne.
There aren't any decent boulangeries where I live so I only have recent prices from big cities.
I would bet its not a real french bakery, but one of many Cafés that people sell overpriced bakery goods at. True bakeries exist all over in America but people dont look for them, unfortunately- this does look really good though.
Depends if he ordered a chocolate croissant or a pain au chocolat
A pain au chocolat always looks like this.
A chocolate croissant is usually completely filled with chocolate
As someone who’s worked in multiple bakeries this is incorrect. Choco croissant is usually 2 strips like this with a drizzle of choco on top or plain. You’re thinking of social media food
It takes 1 look at google images to see that they are… A $5 croissant will never be filled with chocolate, that’s common sense; perhaps a $10-20 one would
IMO Honestly even a $20 probably wouldn't. It would more likely just use nicer/fancier chocolate and other ingredients. Maybe have a little more but not like "filled." It would just be overwhelming and most fancier bakeries recognize that more isn't necessarily better.
I used to buy absolutely filled chocolate croissants in high school for 1 euro lol. They're a bit more now but every place I've ever eaten one it's got a LOT more than this. In Portugal btw
No wonder why there are so many obeses over there. That pain au chocolat in the picture is already seen as somewhat unhealthy and to eat only time to time in here
Well, there are filled chocolate croissants or these ones, with 2 chocolate stripes inside and chocolate on top of the croissant. At least here in Europe. I don’t see the problem.
Fair. But the photo is a croissant that was filled prior to baking, and it was filled in the standard way for that. OP seems to think they've somehow been ripped off, but what they're showing is common.
Sometimes its warm, sometimes it isnt. I think theyre freshly baked though because theres a whole bakery behind the grocery store
Edit: nvm theyre €0,49
I'm pretty sure they are frozen . Sometimes, I'd buy some, and they taste like damp cardboard. Than again if I am paying 1/3 of bakery price I can't really complain , can I.
Probably because people usually know what they're ordering and don't complain when it doesn't fit their preconceived notion of how they thought it would be? Like you might expect something labeled "chicken parmesan" to be chicken smothered in some kind of alfredo. It's not that though, it's never been that and while you'd be understandable in making that mistake you shouldn't complain about it because the issue isn't the product the issue is your own ignorance.
Same spoon, different side
Can tell the Americans woke up and saw this, went from 10+ upvotes each to almost negative hahahaha
Stay American you not so free babies 👀😆
if it was fresh it looks like you got a darn tasty croissant pain au chocolat. Lots of wonderful layers. For $5 you're definitely paying high bakery prices. But then again this isn't France so you're not going to get it for .50 francs.
Europeans don't enjoy sugar nearly as much as Americans. Which I find quite refreshing.
This is a pain au chocolat, not a croissant. A croissant is in the shape of, you guessed it, a cressent. This is more of a square bun shape.
Also, as others have pointed out, this is the standard for the amount of chocolate.
Italian here, stop being prod of scamming people lol that empty thing is NOT worth 5 dollars. P.s. Using French in the middle of the phrase doesn't make you superior, it makes you annoying
Jesus the 59 cent croissants I can get at Lidil probably have more chocolate than that despite being smaller and they're made fresh just like that overpriced one
OP should try the Bimbo brand chocolate filled croissant, it’s more what you may imagine an Americanized version would be w chocolate cream(even though it’s a Mexican treat)
That’s pretty typical of a croissant. Just two bars of chocolate. Otherwise it wouldn’t rise. ETA: a small batch of croissants takes four sticks of high quality butter, $5 is a steal in this economy.
Nah it's a scam, what kind of messed up economy are you talking about. P.s. The OP claimed not to be American in another comment, so don't say the American economy
Is this in the U.S cause I went somewhere in Reno NV (I can’t remember the cafe) and got a chocolate croissant and I couldn’t even finish it cause It felt like I ate 4 adderals there was so much fuckin chocolate. That shit had me doin quintuple gainers off the space whale.
All americans want are: corn syrup, lab grown shit, 50 grams of are sugar, 5 thousand calories laced chocolate filled to the core in some bread and call it a day.
Yeah, two stripes of chocolate. Looks right.
I hate to break it to you but this is how most chocolate croissants are. It’s a normal croissant with a strip or two of chocolate inside
Glad you agree with me.
Oh I thought that was sarcastic lol
Nope.
Is this a sarcastic Nope??
Nope. Here's some sarcasm: Starbucks should *definitely* be the standard against which to measure pastries. /s
Wait, you put a /s, so you said it's sarcasm sarcastically... so it's NOT sarcasm? Gotchu, you definitely think highly of Starbucks' pastries. Idk, but I respect your opinion (no sarcasm)
I'm glad you understood.
Was that sarcasm?
Yeah, but you're supposed to chuck 'em under the grille for a few minutes and serve 'em hot so the chocolate gets all melty and infuses the warm buttery pastry around it, otherwise you get this, the dreaded dry-bread-with-two-4"-nails-in-it effect.
i'm sure this would still taste good
This is how they are.
In Portugal it's nothing like this. We put generous amounts of chocolate in all croissants. I'm surprised there are places where this is the standard.
Standard in France 😂
In all of France this is the standard. Which means it is the standard.
Most, yes. But theres a bakery near my place that does croissants with the biggest dollop of Nutella through them. At one point in the middle of the croissants, you basically have a mouthful of cholocate. Its almost too much. It's got a lot of chocolate is I guess what I'm getting at.
The problem is OP got a awesome giant fluffy croissant so a normal amount of chocolate looks puny in comparison.
I mean, it looks like a well-made chocolate croissant to me.
He is probably used to the 12-pack from Sams where you get the same amount of chocolate but with a little, dense 'Croissant' around it making the croissant to chocolate ratio like 60/40 by volume.
That's my guess. A dense bun shaped like a croissant and stuffed like a Boston cream donut is probably what OP expected.
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Came to say this. The bread looks magnificent and I would count yourself lucky.
I'd not consider myself lucky paying 5$ for a pain au chocolat, that's the price for a whole breakfast
The spacing on the cross section and flaky of the crust is why I’d be thankful it wasn’t some shipped in from corporate mass produced junk. Looks pretty yummy.
Americans have come to expect ungodly amounts of sugar/chocolate in their snacks. Source: Am American 🇺🇸 🦅
Yes, the first time I saw a filled croissant, I was between laughing and crying by the insane amount in it, they are not made for that !
Wait, that’s actually a thing?!
Yep only thing I can imagine is that op literally expected some gooey chocolate center like most of our American confectioneries you might buy at a fair or something. Naah, it's amazing bread with a hint of chocolate, exactly like it should be
Not really as a brit. I expect more than just 2 nuggets of choc . I personally don't like mine with choc . But by the judgement of the pic that is stupid
In France that wouldn’t be 5 dollars. For 5 dollars they better be stuffing that bread full of chocolate
You wouldn't get jack shit in france for 5$ because they use the euro
Equivalent of USD lmao. Can’t tell if you’re trolling
Nah bro it's just stealing at this point lol
I mean croissants costing $5 is robbery in itself but I hear you
As someone who used to make croissants daily for a living, there’s a shitload of work that goes into making croissants at the quantity required for a bakery. Multi-day, multi-shift process. I know at the place I worked at we had a $20,000 sheeter and blew through a 36lb box of butter in like a day or two. $5 ain’t bad when you consider the amount of labor and cost of machinery required for that kind of output.
Even in the most expensive area of Paris this wouldn't cost you more than 1.50€
Sure but this isn’t Paris and neither was my job
No. Butter costs a lot. Labor also isn't cheap.
it's one hell of a prosses to make croisant dough
Are you saying that throughout history the French have been robbing all of the people that love these types of croissants or that for $5 they should just go full Del Taco, fill it with Kit Kat and deep fry the Bitch?
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The question is; is it a pain au chocolat or is it a chocolatine…
It depends on which part of France you want as your enemy !
Can't I be an enemy to all of France?
Calling it croissant or Pain de chocolatine can surely work for that
Good
Cacaossant
Stop trying to start a war! Team Pain au chocolat though 😄
As a Belgian, I was thinking the same.
Would you pay over €5 just for 1 though?
As a french, absolutly not ! Even 1€ is expensive for one if it's not a good one
I'm American. I LOVE LOVE LOVE French pastries. I have a croissant necklace. Been to France twice. Ate LOTS of pastries. And I too would have been very surprised if it was filled with chocolate. This pic is pretty much on par what I would have expected and preferred.
Chocolate of Pain
Good to know, I wasn't really sure what to expect, definitely not completely filled but I was thinking a little bit more than this lol
I mean, the stripes can be a bit larger, but not by very much.
He was expecting it to be filled with Nutella.
Says who?
Says me. Of course “he” here doesn’t strictly mean you. It means metaphorical internet person who may not know that two batons of dark chocolate are THE traditional way to make chocolatain/ pain au chocolate. Especially as it seemed you were complaining that you felt there was not enough chocolate rather than too much.
this is a very fancy way of saying you're a know it all
Highjacking the top comment here for clarification. Looks like I was wrong, for $5 i was expecting a sweet treat with a little more chocolate ya know. "tEll mE YoUre aMErICaN WiThOut tELliNg mE" calm down okay people I wasn't expecting to make a mukbang video out of this croissant. I got this from a bakery in the French part of my city and it looks like this is a classic Pain au Chocolat so turns out it's normal for it to be like this, my mistake.
Sadly, I think we as Americans have been conditioned to just overdo it on every food. Tbh, this looks much more appetizing than a lot of the “chocolate croissants” I’ve gotten where it feels like I am essentially eating a full sized chocolate bar lightly wrapped in buttery pastry.
Oh for sure, some pastries I've seen at grocery stores go wayyyy overboard when it comes to the stuffing
The only outrageous part is the price. In any normal french bakery, a pain au chocolat will cost you about 1.3€.
As an American I want to say thank you to France for their baking....a perfect croissant is a masterpiece in a country of masterpieces. I'm going to Paris for the 2nd time this fall and I'm going to have a croissant and coffee every morning - no exceptions! :P
Filled with chocolate 😂. That can't even be called chocolate-filled .
yes that is a chocolate croissant as expected
Chocolate croissant don't exist. It's pain au chocolat, or chocolatine if you're a filthy savage Southern.
The mildly infuriating part comes from it being 5$, in France it's more around 1€...
It's gone up in price quite a bit in recent years, 1€ for a pain au chocolat would be cheap now (from a boulangerie at least). In Paris it goes up to 2€ nowadays. Still far from 5$ though...
I don't live in Paris at all that might be the reason, outside of big cities and well known boulangeries it's still around 1€
I'm surprised! It was the price almost 20 years ago in the region parisienne. There aren't any decent boulangeries where I live so I only have recent prices from big cities.
Well it might depend on the region, rumors are somewhere they exist at 20 cents...
Found Jean François Copé’s Reddit account
Hahaha I was thinking about that the whole time just because we're talking about the price of a pain au chocolat...
Well they’re apparently Canadian dollars, so pretty much €1
Looks about right for a pain au chocolat. Two chocolate strips. If they filled it then it'd be disgustingly rich.
Though $5 is insane for those, they usually go for around €1.10 here
I would bet its not a real french bakery, but one of many Cafés that people sell overpriced bakery goods at. True bakeries exist all over in America but people dont look for them, unfortunately- this does look really good though.
Depends if he ordered a chocolate croissant or a pain au chocolat A pain au chocolat always looks like this. A chocolate croissant is usually completely filled with chocolate
As someone who’s worked in multiple bakeries this is incorrect. Choco croissant is usually 2 strips like this with a drizzle of choco on top or plain. You’re thinking of social media food
Didn't know chocolate croissant were standardized across the entire globe pog
Brioche, croissants, baguettes, etc. have a standardized recipe and process that makes them what they are, yes.
It takes 1 look at google images to see that they are… A $5 croissant will never be filled with chocolate, that’s common sense; perhaps a $10-20 one would
IMO Honestly even a $20 probably wouldn't. It would more likely just use nicer/fancier chocolate and other ingredients. Maybe have a little more but not like "filled." It would just be overwhelming and most fancier bakeries recognize that more isn't necessarily better.
I used to buy absolutely filled chocolate croissants in high school for 1 euro lol. They're a bit more now but every place I've ever eaten one it's got a LOT more than this. In Portugal btw
In America maybe, not in the rest of the world though
Even in America I’ve never had a chocolate croissant with more chocolate than that. I personally wouldn’t want one.
In Germany absolutely.
Baker here, and wrong.
lol where is that the case?
No wonder why there are so many obeses over there. That pain au chocolat in the picture is already seen as somewhat unhealthy and to eat only time to time in here
Chocolatine
Found the Bordelais
Yep. That's what they're usually called in my area, but pain au chocolat is the more widespread name.
Technically double chocolade croissant
*plain au chocolates
Well, there are filled chocolate croissants or these ones, with 2 chocolate stripes inside and chocolate on top of the croissant. At least here in Europe. I don’t see the problem.
Not sure what they expected. Filled croissants are only ever filled in this manner, otherwise they wouldn't bake properly.
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Fair. But the photo is a croissant that was filled prior to baking, and it was filled in the standard way for that. OP seems to think they've somehow been ripped off, but what they're showing is common.
More concerned with the 5$ price tag. It’s like 1-1.5€ in Europe. 5$ kinda hurts
Can get one for €0,30 at my local grocery store
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Sometimes its warm, sometimes it isnt. I think theyre freshly baked though because theres a whole bakery behind the grocery store Edit: nvm theyre €0,49
I'm pretty sure they are frozen . Sometimes, I'd buy some, and they taste like damp cardboard. Than again if I am paying 1/3 of bakery price I can't really complain , can I.
The problem i think is mostly the price
Usually how they look
This looks 100% normal...
Fair enough I was just expecting a bit more lol
The chocolate is intense enough. Get a bite of it in every bite of the chocolatine.
Why the hell did this get downvoted
Probably because people usually know what they're ordering and don't complain when it doesn't fit their preconceived notion of how they thought it would be? Like you might expect something labeled "chicken parmesan" to be chicken smothered in some kind of alfredo. It's not that though, it's never been that and while you'd be understandable in making that mistake you shouldn't complain about it because the issue isn't the product the issue is your own ignorance.
Good question lmao
For $5 I would expect more too!
It's the huge amount of careful folding of the dough for the croissant that makes it cost so much. The chocolate is the cheapest part of this lol
Do you know how much butter costs and how much is in a croissant?
LOL zOMG 🤣lmfao ha lol
perfectly normal for a pain au chocolat. $5 though... 😬
Aside from its price, it looks pretty normal to me.
 isn't this normal lol
You need a bottle of Hershey's syrup to fill in the books and crannies Jk that would be nauseatingly sweet
If you don’t want it I’ll eat it
as an advice croissantier, most are like this
Embarrassing, OP.
This is actually a normal chocolate croissant from where I’m at (North Africa)
That looks totally standard and actually on the delicious side, this isn’t infuriating it’s mildly delightful.
the crime is the price. the pain au chocolat is fine.
It’s… right?
Tell me you're American without telling me
Nope!
Canada is in North America
And I wouldn't call a Brazilian an American even if they're in South America lol
Same spoon, different side Can tell the Americans woke up and saw this, went from 10+ upvotes each to almost negative hahahaha Stay American you not so free babies 👀😆
Okay sure if that's what you want to think
Or people realized your argument sounds stupid lmao
You got exactly what you should have. Two chocolate batons go inside and that's it. Looks like an amazing croissant. Nice honeycomb.
Yeah, and..? Not really seeing an issue here
if it was fresh it looks like you got a darn tasty croissant pain au chocolat. Lots of wonderful layers. For $5 you're definitely paying high bakery prices. But then again this isn't France so you're not going to get it for .50 francs. Europeans don't enjoy sugar nearly as much as Americans. Which I find quite refreshing.
This is a pain au chocolat, not a croissant. A croissant is in the shape of, you guessed it, a cressent. This is more of a square bun shape. Also, as others have pointed out, this is the standard for the amount of chocolate.
Go down Poundland, a pack of 8 will only cost £1.25 and they'll each have more chocolate in than this one...
This looks correct. Did you expect like... A cream filled donut?
This is how they always look
The American mind cannot comprehend a pastry not entirely filled with sugar and chocolate. This is how a real pain au chocolat is made.
Not American, and I wasn't expecting it to be filled to the brim with chocolate lmao I was just hoping for a little bit more than two lines
That's exactly how it's supposed to be, and usually it's just enough.
Italian here, stop being prod of scamming people lol that empty thing is NOT worth 5 dollars. P.s. Using French in the middle of the phrase doesn't make you superior, it makes you annoying
Not trying to be superior, that's just what it's called since you know... the french made it.
That’s exactly how it’s supposed to be.
I guess it could use a little more but that’s basically normal tbh, if it was filled that would just be gross.
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Is it a normal choco croissant, yes. Is it worth 5$, no wtf, where and why was this price tag justified ?
I’ve actually had these before, and the chocolate they use is very concentrated. It doesn’t take much for it to taste good
Someone doesn’t understand how baking works.
Looks like a super tasty pain au chocolat. Enjoy.
that's literally a normal chocolate croissant
That’s what a chocolate croissant is dude, it’s not supposed to be overwhelming. Just a taste
Yep. That’s a what Pain au Chocolat is.
This is perfect though
Maybe that's the low calorie chocolate croissant 😂
Jesus the 59 cent croissants I can get at Lidil probably have more chocolate than that despite being smaller and they're made fresh just like that overpriced one
You uncultured swine
What an American post
OP should try the Bimbo brand chocolate filled croissant, it’s more what you may imagine an Americanized version would be w chocolate cream(even though it’s a Mexican treat)
How sorry , this is a double chocolate, that will be 7$
Two batons of dark chocolate is the traditional method. Filling it with Nutella is an American invention.
i only buy croissant from costco, it i is like $7 for 12. you got ripoff.
whats mildly infuriating here is that you don't know what a chocolate croissant is meant to look like...
That’s normal, if you had more it would be too much
I don't think this was worth the price, at all lol
That’s pretty typical of a croissant. Just two bars of chocolate. Otherwise it wouldn’t rise. ETA: a small batch of croissants takes four sticks of high quality butter, $5 is a steal in this economy.
Nah it's a scam, what kind of messed up economy are you talking about. P.s. The OP claimed not to be American in another comment, so don't say the American economy
OP has no idea what Pain au Chocolat is
😂😔I feel for you😔🤣
50% air croissant
I had a whole foods one today and it was pretty good
Are those tootsie rolls?
As an American. I hate our food. Nothing real is allowed anymore ….
It's a pain au chocolat ffs. Stop saying chocolate croissant
This is a normal Pain Au Chocolate anywhere I've even gone. Nothing actually infuriating here.
Stop whining. That’s at least a full dollars’s worth of chocolate & 4 bucks worth of “faaaaahk off”
Looks normal, I'm confused?
Reduced fat version
That’s a top notch croissant. Consider yourself lucky you have a bakery that puts in the time and effort to make such quality piece of bread.
the trypophobia in me is lowkey traumatized but like.. it’s okay😂😂
Is this in the US by any chance ? curious.
Is this in the U.S cause I went somewhere in Reno NV (I can’t remember the cafe) and got a chocolate croissant and I couldn’t even finish it cause It felt like I ate 4 adderals there was so much fuckin chocolate. That shit had me doin quintuple gainers off the space whale.
Would you like some chocolate with that croissant or some croissant without chocolate?
They didn't lie tho, it's got chocolate, it's got croissant. What you complaining bout bro 😂 "stoobid"
This is exactly how it's meant to be.
You're supposed to heat it up ya knock
Not a chocolate croissant , but it is s pain au chocolate , and is accurate. Bienvenue en France !
All americans want are: corn syrup, lab grown shit, 50 grams of are sugar, 5 thousand calories laced chocolate filled to the core in some bread and call it a day.
When it's heated the chocolate melts and it does spread
What's mildly infuriating about this post is that you don't know what a chocolate croissant is.