[HN Gopher] Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp
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Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp
Author : ohjeez
Score : 68 points
Date : 2025-10-09 15:40 UTC (7 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ctvnews.ca)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ctvnews.ca)
| n1b0m wrote:
| Do they taste buttery when you lick them?
| wvbdmp wrote:
| Unfortunately, WebSmell-o-Vision has not yet been unilaterally
| pushed by the dudes at Google to do this news justice, but as a
| croissant connaisseur I would have at least appreciated a webp of
| the thing instead of some random archive image. It's a stamp, for
| christ's sake.
|
| There is a pic here and it's quite nice imo: https://www.wopa-
| plus.com/en/stamps/product/&pid=105515
| bogzz wrote:
| I'm holding out for a <smell> HTML tag.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| <bouquet>
| _kb wrote:
| And of course the `olfactoryFactory` component for
| Enterprise(tm) frameworks.
| usr1106 wrote:
| But wopa-plus does even mention the essential detail?
|
| https://www.laposte.fr/pp/c/timbre-croissant-au-beurre
| xattt wrote:
| Here I was misreading the article that it was croissant-shaped,
| not scented, until I saw a picture.
| bowsamic wrote:
| Try and find a good one in France. Harder than you'd think
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _Try and find a good one in France. Harder than you'd think_
|
| In Paris? Sure. You're competing with tourists. Almost _any_
| rural bakery? No. You 'd have to try to find something shitty.
| jjgreen wrote:
| In Paris, look for the little old ladies carrying half-
| baguettes and go in the direction they're coming from.
| GLdRH wrote:
| Can't wait for the cheeses
| jraph wrote:
| La Poste might have invented the first non-vegan stamps in
| history.
|
| I hope they don't turn rancid.
| hansvm wrote:
| Given the normal process for making glue I wouldn't be so
| certain.
| tux3 wrote:
| Most modern glues are synthetic. Super glue is usually
| cyanoacrylate, regular glue sticks might be Polyvinyl Acetate
| (PVA). Outside of specialty glues that are intentionally
| going for old school methods, it's not really a thing anymore
| hammock wrote:
| How recently were stamps with glue invented?
| ch-one wrote:
| Nice, we got 4 fruits in Switzerland:
| https://shop.post.ch/en/stamps-philately/philately/single-st...
| derelicta wrote:
| I miss my concrete stamps... A bit rough on the tongue but
| still lovely
| mihaaly wrote:
| I am holding off for the red wine flavoured one.
| fisherjeff wrote:
| Now _this_ is the future I've been waiting for
| cultofmetatron wrote:
| I wish we had croussants here in teh states (tiny speciality
| shops not withstanding). They are a rare. instead we get a weird
| butter flavored croissant shaped bread with nothing of the
| texture or aroma of the real thing.
| dismalaf wrote:
| Because most in North America are made with margarine or a mix
| of margarine and butter, so much of the butter "taste" is fake.
| That's also why the lamination is worse.
| bvan wrote:
| La Frenchtech at its peak.
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