the.com/crescent roll
Triangle dough you roll into a smile, bake into a bribe.
means A buttery, flaky roll shaped by rolling a triangle of dough into a curved crescent before baking.
from The shape traces back to the crescent (French *croissant*, 'growing' or 'crescent moon,' from Latin *crescere*, 'to grow'), the horned pastry famously tied to Austria and France. 'Crescent roll' is the plainer, Americanized cousin of the croissant — same lunar curve, humbler dough, often from a refrigerated tube rather than a laminated, butter-folded one. The popular tale that croissants were invented to celebrate a defeat of a crescent-moon flag (often linked to Vienna) is widely considered a baked-in legend, not documented history.
- shape origin
- named for crescent moon, not croissant kinship
- the can pop
- that startling bang is pure pressurized theater
- pillsbury history
- commercial dough tube debuted in 1965
- not french
- flakier cousin to croissant, way less butter laminate