Deng Xiaoping and croissants

[caramelpence]

Deng Xiaoping spent 5 years in France as a young worker-student, not unlike other future members of the CPC, including Zhou Enlai and Li Lisan. Whilst there, he acquired a love of croissants. But you could not find croissants in China after the 1949 revolution! Many years later, Deng Xiaoping went to the UN in New York, in 1974, to deliver a speech to the General Assembly. He had been given 16 US dollars as an official spending allowance. He liked croissants so much that he saved up all that money and, when passing through France on a stop-over flight on the way back to China, he spent all the money on croissants. He had not visited France again in all the time since he was a worker-student so he had missed eating croissants very much. He bought over a hundred croissants! When he got back to China he shared the croissants with Zhou Enlai because Zhou Enlai also liked croissants very much. They ate over a hundred croissants together. They were happy because they had not eaten croissants in a long time. The end.

What do other people think about Deng Xiaoping's love of croissants? What do people think about croissants in general?

[Ned Kelly]

Hipster Irony?

[Sasha]

moved to shitshat

[Pirate Utopian]

Even the man's taste in food was awesome. What a great guy.

[Robespierre Richard]

Even the man's taste in food was awesome. What a great guy.

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[Comrade J]

I like croissants with blackberry jam, but you can't get croissants in England. You can get things labelled as croissants, even shaped like croissants, but they're not croissants.

Best croissant I ever had was in Barcelona, filled with dark chocolate. :drool: So I guess it was more a pain au chocolat, but it was shaped like a croissant.

[Red Future]

I ate him and his croissants

[caramelpence]

This thread has more factual information than most of the shit that gets posted in the history forum, why move it?

[bailey_187]

True hero of the workers. Despite his love for the food, he did not have them imported.

[Obs]

moved to shitshat
please trash

[Pirate Utopian]

I'm glad Deng took over after Mao. Just a shame that guy had to clean up the mess that lousy idiot left behind. Deng was a real revolutionary, unlike Mao.

[Robespierre Richard]

I'm glad Deng took over after Mao. Just a shame that guy had to clean up the mess that lousy idiot left behind. Deng was a real revolutionary, unlike Mao.

Admins please restrict Pirate Utopian.

[Pirate Utopian]

Don't be such a revisionist.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Admins Restrict croissants