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Insignificant Blizzard Can't Stop Cronut Fans From Lining Up This Morning
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 3, 2014
Modified Jan 3, 2014
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Ha blizzard whatever! Lazy amateurs waste their morning cowering under the covers, hiding from the bitter cold and towering snowdrifts; WINNERS strap on their big boy snowpants and go wait on line for the most Important Pastry of Our Time. Even in inclement weather like this there's stiff competition, as you can see from this photo documenting the Cronut line outside Dominique Ansel's bakery in SoHo this morning. And among those queued up was NONE OTHER THAN the self-proclaimed #CRONUTGIRL:
Of course, Cronut Girl is now someone's identity. Or rather, HASHTAG Cronut Girl. Inevitable. Book Deal. Good Morning America. Howard Stern. Then Sex Tape. Vivid. OWNING IT. Dating Eliot Spitzer? Driving While Cronutated. Through God's grace, rehab. Barbara Walters. Resurrection. Politics? A brave, heroic Hashtag Cronut Girl turns her life around and unites a hungry nation. Hashtag Cronut Girl, The IMAX Experience Starring Jennifer Lawrence. Get there early and wait on line to make sure you get a good seat for the Cronut movie that defined a generation.
By the way, here's January's Cronut. Totally worth waiting in a blizzard for:
(Courtesy of Dominique Ansel)
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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