In response to the blasphemous cartoons by the Danish press, Iran has decided to strike back with a vengeance!
They have renamed Danish pastries to ROSES OF PROPHET MOHAMMED! Ouch!!!
Here's the news item.

Persian sign of 'Danish pastries' right, and 'Roses of Prophet Mohammad' are seen in a bakers in Tehran Thursday Feb. 16, 2006. Iran is taking the fight against cartoons considered blasphamous by Muslims to a new ground: Renaming 'Danish pastries' into 'Roses of Prophet Mohammad' in the country of cake lovers. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Goes to show you, careful with what you say.

Croissants, which everyone thinks is a french pastry, were named after Islam's symbol of the Crescent and 'invented' during the Siege of Vienna (1529). This battle saw the deepest penetration of Islam in Christian Europe, its defeat and subsequent pushing back to its current borders of Istanbul.

Of course at the time it was meant to be deprecatory - a fluffy pastry to be eaten by the mobs of hungry 'christian' soldiers.

Thus not the first time pastry are at the forefront of tensions and conflicts!

The French only perfected the art of the Croissant. ;)

True Hugo , only a fine Canadian with the correct language background would know this ;)

The secret of Croissant is this: use butter. :)

^ he forgot to say "lots."
fake secret giver.

I learned from the master.