I Love Croissants

Preferrably With Chocolate

There are lots of theories about how the famous pastry came to France, some associated with the British and others with Marie Antoinette. However, most feel that it was brought into the country by an Austrian baker, August Zang, who opened a pastry shop in Paris in the 1830s, mixing Viennese croissants with chocolate. He called them schokoladencroissant. Locals in Toulouse feels so strongly about legitimizing their word that they have tried in the past to table a government motion to give the chocolatine the same nationwide status as the pain au chocolat.

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