Those are two entirely different pastries....aren't they?

Everything, Salt, or Garlic Bagle toasted brown with light low fat cream cheese and lockes.

Soft Pretzel
Doughnut
Indian Frybread
Fritter
Cornbread
Waffle
Pancake (flapjack)


Beignet? Someone send me one of those. please :coffee:



I couldn't choose just one.

we are going to run into language problems here, I think.

I voted doughnut, English muffin, and beignet. Not that I've had beignets anywhere but Cafe du Monde, in NO, but still--

In the US a pancake is the same thing as a flapjack, though some people mean a thinner, crispier, larger diameter pancake. UK flapjacks are totally yummy, in their oaty goodness.

Actually, I found that the Stella Doro Anisette Toast, which are similar to biscotti (they also sell regular biscotti) are only 1 weight watcher point apiece. Rite Aid sells a super size box of them.

I did try a little research on this, and found there are regional varieties of waffles, pancakes, rolls, etc. I could have listed 100 items, but I had to settle for general differences in dough or texture (frybread vs flatbread).

I did forget croissants and danish, which are popular in America, thanks partially to McDonalds. I did remember the beignets, even though I've never had one and probably never will.

I did loosely define pastry. I wanted to include anything we've had for breakfast or a snack, or we made for ourselves or had then made for us from scratch, or a mix or can. Doughy comfort food.

Croissants and danish have been popular longer than McDonalds. Although Pillsbury did have a hand in the croissant factor.

Make sure when you eat these things they are followed with a huge glass of 2% milk.:stickpoke

You get croissants in McDonalds?!
Blimey. Our McDonalds have a long way to go (though you can get fruit toast, bagels and porridge now, as well as bacon rolls with brown sauce).

Croissants are best dipped in hot chocolate in the handle-less cups they have in France though. For a really authentic experience I mean.

McD's doesn't make croissant breakfast sandwiches in the UK? Are they afraid of pissing off the French?

Our branch of McD does something that purports to be crioissant based.

To be fair I haven't had a McD's breakfast in about 5 years.

Oh - I lie. A couple of years ago the local paper had coupons when they launched their new "healthier" breakfast range and I pinched them from the work copy of the paper because I walked past McDonalds on my way in... and because I charmed the press dept who let me have it. But I wasn't looking at the menu.

It's pretty impossible to get a healthy fast food breakfast, as far as I can tell.

I've never known McDonalds to have croissants. Jack in the Box, yes; McD's, no.

I like every kind of pastry, from phyllo to quick-breads.

I've never heard of zeppole, but I'd probably like them too.

I like strombolis just fine as long as the tomato/marinara sauce is scratchbuilt on-site and inside the stromboli. Setting a little covered plastic cup of factory-built marinara on the side to dip with bores me, quite.

There's a local Mexican-bakery roll with Mexican cheese (it's very hard to tell one Mexican white cheese from another), shaved ham, and sliced jalapeño baked inside. I'm quite fond of these when it's not quite dinnertime for one reason or another but it's still late in the day and my stomach is sending me messages.

McDonald's in America doesn't have croissants that I know of, but Burger King does.

The Egg McMuffin has little fat and only 325 calories. According to their nutrition info chart thingie. I eat two with a large OJ for breakkie.