--- title: Tom Holland Pronouncing Croissant: Quackson Meme Endures description: The way Tom Holland pronounces 'croissant' has become an enduring meme. canonical: https://time.com/4895190/tom-holland-croissant-internet-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-10T15:34:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:17.610Z og:title: The Internet Can't Get Enough Tom Holland Croissant Memes og:description: "I'm a walking meme!" says the Spider-Man star og:url: https://time.com/4895190/tom-holland-croissant-internet-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dc7fc9f7b6070d3/6988d93e7cdbaca3a7d598dd/tom-holland.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tom Holland attends the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' press conference on July 3, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Can't Get Enough Tom Holland Croissant Memes twitter:description: "I'm a walking meme!" says the Spider-Man star twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dc7fc9f7b6070d3/6988d93e7cdbaca3a7d598dd/tom-holland.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Just Can't Quit These Memes of Tom Holland Pronouncing 'Croissant' by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 10, 2017 3:34 PM UTC  Tom Holland attends the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' press conference on July 3, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. Tom Holland attends the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' press conference on July 3, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea.Chung Sung-Jun—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 10, 2017 3:34 PM UTC If there’s one love that endures, it’s the Internet’s endless fondness for the way [Tom Holland](http://time.com/4837442/spider-man-tom-holland-peter-parker/) once said the word “croissant.” Back in 2015, the English [_Spider-Man: Homecoming_](http://time.com/4840664/spiderman-homecoming-review/) star mentioned the buttery, crescent-shaped pastry during an [interview.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqxOEOlJxhg) He was explaining that after giving up sugar for a long period for the film _In t_ _he Heart of the Sea_, he finally indulged in a croissant on set. And the Internet had a field day with his diligent French pronunciation. One fan went so far as to edit a YouTube video of him saying the word on loop. Holland is aware of the joke, too. Just last month, he spoke on [BBC 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCNt7cJi9Y) about how all his fans want is a video of him pronouncing “croissant.” “”I am a walking meme! My fans were like, ‘Tom Holland can’t say ‘croissant.’ He says ‘quackson,'” Holland said. “And every fan I meet, they take a video and they’re like, ‘Hey man, can you say quackson?'” Because things never die on the Internet, the magical moment was recently rediscovered. > [](https://twitter.com/%5F%5Fquackson%5F%5F/status/895313406772756482) > [](https://twitter.com/PeterPereaa/status/894646491217707009) > [](https://twitter.com/serialsuperhero/status/892150241310519296) > [](https://twitter.com/spideystark1996/status/895401729923198976) > [](https://twitter.com/MarianaxTaborda/status/894725143485759489) Someone even connected the croissant to [another meme](http://www.teenvogue.com/story/tom-holland-frog-fan-theory) about Holland holding a tiny frog in his mouth. > [](https://twitter.com/liannesvalera/status/894705889222864896) But Holland is ready to move on to a new Internet phenomenon. “The quackson joke is outdone,” he told BBC 1\. “Let’s find a new one.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4895190/tom-holland-croissant-internet-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4895190/tom-holland-croissant-internet-memes/"},"headline":"The Internet Just Can't Quit These Memes of Tom Holland Pronouncing 'Croissant'","datePublished":"2017-08-10T15:34:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:17.610Z","description":"The way Tom Holland pronounces 'croissant' has become an enduring meme.","url":"https://time.com/4895190/tom-holland-croissant-internet-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","movies","celebrities","viral","food and drink","Meme"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dc7fc9f7b6070d3/6988d93e7cdbaca3a7d598dd/tom-holland.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dc7fc9f7b6070d3/6988d93e7cdbaca3a7d598dd/tom-holland.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tom Holland attends the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' press conference on July 3, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea.","caption":"Tom Holland attends the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' press conference on July 3, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea.","creditText":"Chung Sung-Jun—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4895190/tom-holland-croissant-internet-memes/","name":"The Internet Just Can't Quit These Memes of Tom Holland Pronouncing 'Croissant'"}}]}] ```