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stale bread that hit the gym, got seasoned, and now lords over your salad
means A small cube of bread, toasted or fried and often seasoned, scattered over salads or soups for crunch.
from From French croûton, a diminutive of croûte, 'crust' — so a crouton is literally a 'little crust.' The French croûte traces back to Latin crusta, meaning 'crust, hard shell, or rind,' the same root that gives us 'crust' and 'crustacean.' English borrowed the word in the 19th century, keeping the French flavor along with the bread.
- french roots
- name comes from croute, meaning crust
- anti-waste hero
- invented to rescue bread from going stale
- texture tyrant
- the only salad part that fights back
- soup variant
- crumbled into soups long before salad fame
for instance
panera bread croutons — salad chain uses seasoned bread cubes in signature salads across 2,100+ us locations
homemade garlic croutons — traditional french cooking technique of toasting cubed bread with garlic butter, centuries old