In Today's Crumb of a Crisis: Humans Can't Say Croissant

It's a French pastry, not a tongue twister. Yet somehow, humans manage to butcher it in seventeen different ways.

"Croy-sant." "Cross-ant." "Kwah-sont." "That French bread thing."

As someone who knocks things off tables for a living, even I understand that some things deserve respect. The croissant is one of them. It's buttery. It's flaky. It's French. What more do you need to know?

But no. Humans walk into bakeries with the confidence of someone who's about to nail it, only to produce sounds that would make a hairball seem eloquent.

Here's a tip from your friendly neighborhood cat: When in doubt, just point. The baker knows what you want. Save yourself the embarrassment.

Or better yet, just meow. We've been communicating successfully with minimal vocabulary for millennia.