Ok, so here is the croissant that started all this mess:
When asked about what kind of animal might it be, the woman said: “It’s this, oh, what is it called… A lagun!”
The devil works fast, but The Krakow Animal Welfare Society works faster:
They already made a merchandise with an illustration of the lagun - they posted information about it on Facebook on Tuesday evening and by the Wednesday morning everything was already sold out.
My university professors are so delighted about this story that they are writing tons and tons of limericks, moskaliks and lepiejs (those two last genres are very popular, ridiculous and humorous types of short poems, in last decades popularized by Wisława Szymborska) and posting them on official Facebook pages of our university departments, and I am dying of laughter.
Important update on the story: owners of cafés and bakeries in Kraków realized that this wonderful idiocy that took over the country could bring them profit and help animals, and started selling croissants labeled as laguns: i.e. Massolit Café & Bakery is sending 10% of income from selling laguns to the Krakow Animal Welfare Society. Thankfully laguns are selling like hotcakes and bakeries don’t plan to stop making them, so the story that started and could quickly die as just another seasonal nonsense transformed into a tool for helping small, helpless, vulnerable creatures, far less dangerous than vicious lagun.
Here’s a reminder to kill this fucker with no hesitation if you see them!
For context: this is a spotted lanternfly, it is highly invasive in the US, and causes damage to crops and plants. If you see them please report the sighting here and kill on sight.
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This species is a huge threat to ecosystems all over the United States. I hate to kill a bug but if I see this species I’ll do it quickly and humanely as possible, and report the sighting to the proper authorities! Here are some tips from the USDA on how to help minimize lanternfly infestation
Frankenstein’s Daughter will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 19 via The Film Detective. The 1958 low-budget science fiction/horror film is inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Richard E. Cunha directs from a script by H.E. Barrie, who also collaborated together on Missile to the Moon, She Demons, and Girl in Room 13. John Ashley, Sandra Knight, Donald Murphy, Sally Ford, and Harold Lloyd Jr. star.
A booklet with an essay by film historian Tom Weaver is included. Special features are listed below.
