Are You Supposed To Eat Cromun At Breakfast or Save It As Dessert?

The internet has never create a dish it couldn't meddle with. Just last week, it nearly persuaded us like many others to dunk salt-and-vinegar chips into melted chocolate and call it Pringles chocolate chips. No, thanks?

This week's contender is a croissant christened Gulab Jamun.

Why does the internet insist on taking perfectly good food items and "improve" it into oblivion?The internet is home to all sorts of strange experiments and culinary inventions that carry shock value long with them. Coconut egg (which is a raw egg mixed in coconut water), watermelon popcorns, Sting Maggi are all creations of the beloved internet. Now adding itself to the list is Cromun.

Dreamt up by L’Opéra Patisserie, a premier, authentic French pâtisserie, boulangerie, and Salon de Thé chain in India, founded by Laurent Samandari, the Cromun is a combination of French pastry with a syrup-soaked Gulab Jamun inside. Described as "a fusion viennoiserie blending an Indian rose-flavoured sweet with the classic French croissant," on the outside, a Cromun is golden, flaky, buttery croissant as it should be. Inside the croissant is a juicy ball of gulab jamun waiting to be bit into.

It combines the delicate, flaky texture of a croissant with a smooth cream inspired by the flavors of gulab jamun, carefully rebalanced to reduce its traditional marked sweetness. The result is a refined, modern pastry that blends tradition with innovation, crafted by L’Opera’s French Executive Chef, Kevin Duthel.

Predictably, the internet has opinions on cromun. One X user described it as a "sweet, spongy but not quintessential gulab jamun," confessing a bias for classic buttery croissants. Some even calling it a list of things including "propaganda", "blasphemy" and passing judgements on the audacious Indo-French mashup.

Others are naturally curious and want to try out the viral pastry before they are serve their verdict whether it should even exist. While a few others can't get over making light-hearted jokes stating "the manufacturer should be sued for hurting the sentiments of the real gulabjamuns."

But given the fusion creates a new identity for Cromun that is neither really a croissant nor a classic gulab jamun, it leaves one wondering whether it should be devoured as breakfast item or a dessert.