But is it still a croissant?

[Anna N]

"A U.K. grocery store chain has ditched the curved croissant in favour of straight rolls – only to be met with a huge uproar online. "

 

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[Lisa Shock]

Well, in France, by law, only a 100% butter croissant can be straight. The 100% butter kind can be any shape the baker wishes. However, ones with any other sort of fat, even 1%, can never be straight.

[Katie Meadow]

This morning's NYT has a hilarious article about this. A snippet:

 

An editorial in The Daily Telegraph, a conservative British newspaper, noted that 

the virtue of the traditional French croissant was its foreignness. “They must not 

be sliced in two, like buns to be buttered,” it observed. “They must be torn, and 

each morsel eaten with jam, even alien apricot jam, if wanted.” The editorial 

added: “Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and 

murrains strike our cattle. Or we could just stick with toast.”