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“Buying chocolates”: what does this expression mean?

2022-06-22T15:42:57.896Z


The name chocolatine comes from the English who reigned over the Aquitaine region. Chocolatine or pain au chocolat? The battle is raging: we are not far from a peaceful Civil War between Northerners and Southerners! A handful of irreducible people in the Northeast who prefer chocolate shell do not participate in the conflict. English origin No offense to some, the birth of pain au chocolat does not date from the 15th century. The Aquitaine region was then under the reign of En


Chocolatine or pain au chocolat?

The battle is raging: we are not far from a peaceful Civil War between Northerners and Southerners!

A handful of irreducible people in the Northeast who prefer chocolate shell do not participate in the conflict.

English origin

No offense to some, the birth of pain au chocolat does not date from the 15th century.

The Aquitaine region was then under the reign of England, and it was the English who gave pain au chocolat the name chocolatine.

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: what does this expression mean?

Fond of French pastries, they would have ordered "

chocolate in bread

" at the bakery counter, which became "

chocolate in

"... This is to forget that at that time, we did not know pastries pastries in France, and especially not chocolate !

Who to give reason to?

The city of Poitiers acts as a geographical and lexical border between chocolatine from the South and pain au chocolat from the North.

Who to give reason to?

We would tend to give it to Southerners, since, if we look at the composition of our delicious chocolate viennoiserie, what is called "

bread

" in pastry is generally made with milk bread dough... however, pain au chocolat uses a leavened puff pastry, similar to that found in croissants.

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