Soggy pastries in cling film. I’ve noticed that all pastries in petrol stations have to be in plastic boxes, cling film or some other form of cover. It ruins the crispy pastry, and makes unnecessary plastic waste. Is it just a COVID thing, or is it a permanent change?
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Worked in a deli myself. We covered them also in film 1. People would touch them to see which ones were better. And 2. Wasps (now they are not around as it’s cold) would sweep in and nibble on the sugar. Overall mostly for hygiene reasons.
Edit: if they are soggy that means they weren’t cold enough before being wrapped. They have to properly cool down.
I’ve never seen criossants wrapped in cling film before. They always have just been on their own. I’ve seen muffins in plastic but never cling film. Also that looks so inconvinient.
It’s pastries at a petrol station. Your expectations are too high.
It started for covid but I think it should stay. People never use the tongs and just paw at the pastries it’s rank
On balance it’s probably the correct thing to cover them what with germs, insects, people touch testing them etc
I hate it. I need to feel how fresh the pastry is on it before I decide to buy it.
Off topic but I miss the days when you could buy one croissant in lidl. Nowadays they put 3 or 4 in one packet..
Agreed, a service station is not the place for this item and even uncovered wouldn’t be crispy.
Truer croissants are baked daily and would only be good for a day or two. The hipster coffee shacks would keep them under a glass cake display.
But this guy, does the best. The layers. The crispy surface. Drool
https://instagram.com/francoisbakeryireland?utm_medium=copy_link
Prepandemic, I was sat on the top deck of a bus while it was at a stop, we were there a good while. I could see just inside the door of a centra, the pastries table was beside the door. I watched a woman who appeared to be fairly intoxicated walk into the centra and start picking up various pastries to smell them and putting them back down after a hefty intense sniff, it looked like she put one up her sleeve. A cashier came running over to her, she drops the pastry out of her sleeve, runs from the shop and the cashier goes back to the till. All the handled pastries remained on the table for some poor soul to purchase.
IMO, keep em clingfilmed.
It’s a disgraceful waste of plastic and makes the food soggy. Covid seems to be the rational that this is happening in supermarkets more.
I cant find the article. But I’m 100% that one of the first things the Chinese and the WHO declared was that covid couldnt survive on food. I’m willing g to be proved wrong o n this. But I’m.certian I read it in march or april 2020.
They should be in individual sealed metal boxes that you purchase the key for at the counter. It’s the only option.
Ah it does ((cough)) ruin them ((cough)) doesn’t it.
I stopped buying stuff like that. Even a SuperValu I go to seems to have every individual pastry wrapped. Ireland also has highest per capita plastic waste in the EU … and you’ll get people defending this kind of thing.
Covid thing
I browse Reddit multiple times a day, every day. Occasionally a post like this comes along and makes me reflect on this. Why the fuck am I reading about the cling film demise of petrol station high cuisine.
Covid. The local Supevalu used to stack them on top of each other in the same tray (had to give out to them once because some eejit mixed the plain ones and the nut ones).