A croissant is a crescent-shaped puff pastry bun, a honeycombed, airy dough, with ultra-crispy layers on the outside and creamier on the inside. The only cooked part of the shapeless dough, the exterior, clings to the cellulose as if it were a hair removal strip.

"This is one of the many misfortunes of the times in which we have lived, the plague of croissants not only of the lowest possible quality, but poorly stored, poorly cooked"