Croissant-shaped lamp on Temu discovered to be actual pastry

It can be common to end up with an online shopping acquisition that falls short of your expectations. But some shopping experiences are on another level of wrong, which is what happened to TikTok user Neta Murphy @froginahatgirl.

When the TikToker user received a parcel from Temu, she was shocked to see that inside was a real croissant, not the croissant lamp she had ordered.

She explained: “I came home from work after a hot day and there were like, hundreds of ants underneath it. I was like, “Why the f*** would ants want a fake croissant?”.”

Her suspicions that the croissant was a real pastry covered in resin only grew after she examined it more closely.

“The ants were going in the hole, so I just poked a bigger hole.”

The strange item was originally bought as a gift for a friend. The product looked to be made of fresh pastry once it was opened. As she poked the ‘light’, crumbles seemed to fall out of its centre, leaving her perplexed as to how the product could be passed off as a genuine lamp.

Temu is a Chinese online marketplace with products at an affordable price. It sells deeply discounted consumer items, the majority of which are supplied straight from China to customers.

It’s clear viewers on TikTok are intrigued with the lamp-related TikTok video currently having 1.2 million views.

One viewer commented: “R u ok babe? You barely touched your Temy croissant lamp”

While another jokingly said: “I gotta check my cat lamp i got from Temu…”

Once Murphy opens the croissant, she decides to take a bite to see if the croissant is legit.

“Did she just eat the Temu croissant lamp?”, one user asked.

“Taking a bite out of a lamp you bought from Temu is actually insane,” said another.

One user seems to have an explanation for using a real croissant: “I think it’s real croissant because it’s supposed to be a copy of the Yukiko Morita lamps where she uses real bread and pastry like croissants. The bread is hollowed out but preserved with anti-fungal coating.”