small pieces of fried or toasted bread added to soup

The drummer of the band Family Force 5

a thing to call people if they are being stupid

Crouton originally is derived from the Canadian word "Crout." and is generally adopted by a select few in Lille. It is used as an insult and is generally well accepted.

Something you put in cup a soup.

A dried piece of bread covered with seasonings that tastes good when you're high.

A crouton was a racist term which applied to Caucasian race. This term originated in the 1960's civil rights movement mostly as a slur used by the black population. The term referred to higher class white people who could afford to put crouton's in their salads as a status of their wealth. In rebellion, the black population labeled these spoiled upper-class white people as 'croutons'. The term may also refer to the status of Caucasians as the "top-of-society" even though they were merely cheap, vapid "re-baked pieces of bread". This term may be in reference to the phenomena of cheap croutons floating to the top of a delicious soup.