And yup, kind of... pain au chocolate is traditionally a slightly different shape. Whereas you start with an isoceles triangle for the croissants, you start with an oblong for the pain au chocolat. So, ours is kind of a bastardised version! I used to absolutely LOVE the chocolate croissants from Tesco's, though... how authentic :P
I used to work at a mini Tesco (the shame...) when I was 17-ish, and at the end of the night we'd be told to throw out everything that hadn't been sold. They refused to let us take them home, because their logic was that if we wanted them, we should pay for them so we didn't just hold out until the end of the night, instead of paying for them. Also, they would chain up and lock the dumpster outside so that people wouldn't dumpster dive. The fuckers. Luckily, there was one manager who, come 9pm, would triumphantly announce "IT'S THAT TIME, GIRLS!" and allow us to fill bags and bags with pastries to take home to our families. IT WAS AWESOME!
That's so mean-spirited, though. I can sort of understand the logic of not letting employees take them home, but couldn't they give them to a homeless shelter or something?
Apparently the shelters wouldn't accept them. Officially, they had "gone off" by health and safety standards, so even though they were perfectly fine, someone could technically sue them if they ate "gone off", rejected food, and got ill from it. It still pissed me off that they wouldn't even leave the food unspoiled for opportunist homeless folk to dig it out of the bins, though. It's part of dumpstering code to leave the spot just as tidy, if not more so, than you found it!
Blah. I seem to remember that they give expired food to prisons, and the stuff the prisons don't want/use gets given to the merchant navy. Maybe it's okay if people doing bird get ill but not homeless people.
Wouldn't those be pain au chocolat though? (French for "chocolate pain")
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And yup, kind of... pain au chocolate is traditionally a slightly different shape. Whereas you start with an isoceles triangle for the croissants, you start with an oblong for the pain au chocolat. So, ours is kind of a bastardised version! I used to absolutely LOVE the chocolate croissants from Tesco's, though... how authentic :P
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I seem to remember they do pretty good ones. I miss them :(
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That's so mean-spirited, though. I can sort of understand the logic of not letting employees take them home, but couldn't they give them to a homeless shelter or something?
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