Do Americans call croissants "French Donuts"?

[spanglechick]

a duvet is fat and fluffy. like a quilted pillow - but a new pillow that's fat and squashy.

a comforter is like an overstuffed quilt, no?

so it goes sheet -> blanket -> quilt -> comforter -> duvet (of various togs/thicknesses) in order of thickness from thin to fat.

 

[Knut]

a duvet is fat and fluffy. like a quilted pillow - but a new pillow that's fat and squashy.

a comforter is like an overstuffed quilt, no?

so it goes sheet -> blanket -> quilt -> comforter -> duvet (of various togs/thicknesses) in order of thickness from thin to fat.

exactly.

 

[Pieface]

Jesus christ. You lot really complicate the bedding issue.....I just keep adding stuff until I'm not cold anymore.

 

[Orang Utan]

But pillows are much thicker than duvets

 

[Y_I_Otter]

French Donuts are these hollow pastry things that are light and fluffy with just a bit of powdered sugar on the top. They're the one exception I make to the "donuts suck" rule. They arn't heavy, overly-sugared gobs of shite.

In Canada, they're known as "crullers", in spite of the fact that your classic French cruller is a different doughnut entirely.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

no...we call them "croissants" but without the french accents

As in 'cross - ants'?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yeah - but cupcakes are sweeter, don't ya think?

Actually, I'm off to make cupcakes for when the kids get home. I've trained them not to expect icing

What I think of as cupcakes.

This is from a UK site, btw.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

nope ameicans dont do duvets...none that i know


its sheet, then blanket then comforter* (if its cold)


*which is sort of like a duvet but no one puts covers on them.

When I was a kid, they were called comforters, and my cousins' Ukranian grandmother used to make them.

About the time I got married, I discovered 'duvets', which were apparently the same thing, far as I can see.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I thought that comforters and duvets were slightly different things. Comforters are overstuffed and fluffy. Duvets less so. I thought duvets were more like "bed spreads", but I could be wrong.

BTW, I use a "quilt" on my bed.

I think a duvet is a quilt, like a Daniadown quilt, inside a cloth bag, while a comforter can be like a sleeping bag, without the zipper and waterproof material.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

In Canada, they're known as "crullers", in spite of the fact that your classic French cruller is a different doughnut entirely.

A la Timmy Ho.

 

[lang rabbie]

As already noted French Donuts are usually bastardised versions of New Orleans/Creole cooking "beignets".

Much of Middle America hasn't been exposed to anything other than Pilsbury croissants (although from my distant recollection of when they were on sale in the UK in the 70s they were curiously addictive)

The list of locations of "Au Bon Pain" branches is probably a more subtle indicator than any "Red State/Blue State" distinction between cosmopolitan locales and those areas where any admission of a taste for things French will be denounced as treachery to the "cheese eating surrender monkeys"

 

[spanglechick]

dunno why i feel the need to research this - maybe because i love my duvet so much, i can barely sleep without one - even in summer.

anyway - a comforter:

a duvet:

not the same thing.

 

[lang rabbie]

duplicate post ?!

 

[wiskey]

What I think of as cupcakes.

This is from a UK site, btw.

they are fairy cakes

 

[dilute micro]

This is so confusing. I thought I knew what crullers were. I thought I didn't like them.