“I'm talking to you about an expression that people under twenty can't know”…
counterfeiting Charles Aznavour, because baby bottle has given way to lollipops, spinners, peanuts, distaffs.
However, this verbal phrase has for some a little scent of childhood, leaving school and a sticky chin.
The biberine was a candy made, from the 1950s, by the Le Mistral confectionery located in the Saint-Menet district of Marseille.
It consisted of a sugar powder flavored with mint, orange or lemon, and it was sold in a paper cone whose tip the child cut off to suck up the contents.
The result was that the paper, once wet with saliva, decomposed and let out the powder which spread over the face and clothes of the greedy.
The baby bottle was going like a lollipop…
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