For French people... Or not, everybody is welcome

[The French Unicorn]

I don't know if there are a lot or French people here, but if there are...

IT'S TIME TO FIGHT!

[Guest]

[Gloomy]

I do have some French ancestry but I still have no idea what’s going on.

[A User]

Chocolate bread for the win!

 

 

(Do I have any rights to this french poll as a canadian? maybe)

[daveb]

Apparently I have little if any French ancestry (maybe some from Alsace and/or Lorraine according to family lore, or 5% according to dna testing). But I don't really care what label they put on the chocolate bread/croissant thing, as long as I get to eat some of it.  

[Guest]

Not French but I'm an international student and I have 24 French classmates (in a class of 29 people), and can say for a fact that it's a very contentious topic!

[Libellule]

I'm not French but calling them anything other than 'pain au chocolat' just sounds weird to me haha. Though I can definitely second it's a very controversial issue. Especially after going to a Parisian bakery with my friend from Toulouse, who was very insistent to order 'chocolatines' and the baker was just as insistent that they were in fact 'pains au chocolat'. 

[Guest]

Pain au chocolat, of course, you peasant! 😝

[fragglerock]

Sounds like it's a painful subject for a lot of people

[Arctangent]

One thing is for sure: whatever it's called, it's delicious.

[Guest]

It’s pain au chocolat in England, I’ve never even heard of Chocolatine. 😅

[Guest]

Qu'est que c'est? Est une "chocolatine" une tartine, mais avec chocolat à la place de la confiture? J'avais mangé du pain au chocolat et je l'aime!

 

(Je ne suis pas française)

[Ceebs]

2 hours ago, JimmyJazz said:

It’s pain au chocolat in England, I’ve never even heard of Chocolatine. 😅

Same, never heard of the latter... although curiously, Wikipedia tells me the Québécois here in Canada say 'chocolatine'. I have a friend who's French Canadian, I'll have to ask her what she calls them.

[Guest]

Apparently they're both words for this:

 

According to google, in southwest France it's called chocolatine. Everywhere else it's pain au chocolat.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, RoseGoesToMush said:

Apparently they're both words for this:

 

According to google, in southwest France it's called chocolatine. Everywhere else it's pain au chocolat.

Yes, that's it. And there is a violent never ending debate regarding who's right about this. Weirdly enough, we do have 'regional' names for a lot of other pastries (like 'pain aux raisins' which is 'escargot 'in the north east) but nobody cares about that. ^^

I don't know if that really was the start of the war, but it's been going on for a while... lives had been lost, friendships broken... you know the drill:

[Ceebs]

I just had the realisation that I've never actually eaten them here in Canada, despite our French population. The only place I've had them is in the UK, and it wasn't me who purchased them. It's never actually occurred to me to do so. I'm not sure why, because they're certainly available here and I liked them well enough. 

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Ceebs. said:

I just had the realisation that I've never actually eaten them here in Canada, despite our French population.

Do you have Aldi up there? That's where I get them. Them, and several other types of brioche imported from France. (Mmm... chocolate chip brioche...)

[Ceebs]

12 minutes ago, RoseGoesToMush said:

Do you have Aldi up there? That's where I get them. Them, and several other types of brioche imported from France. (Mmm... chocolate chip brioche...)

Nope, we don't. I've seen them at other major grocery store chains, though. Somehow just not paid them much attention, I guess?

[The French Unicorn]

4 hours ago, RoseGoesToMush said:

Apparently they're both words for this:

 

According to google, in southwest France it's called chocolatine. Everywhere else it's pain au chocolat.

Yeah that's is. They are two different names for the same thing. It somehow became the subject of heated debates.

[Ceebs]

And then there's this whole mess... 😂

 

(Not sure which image is a better representation.)

 

 

[Guest]

27 minutes ago, RoseGoesToMush said:

Do you have Aldi up there? That's where I get them. Them, and several other types of brioche imported from France. (Mmm... chocolate chip brioche...)

Now that deserves death by bees. 
You... you don't buy viennoiseries in supermarkets and not in a german discount store of all places. That's just wrong. 😱
Find a bakery, for the love of butter! A croissant cost about 1 euro here in the best bakeries, so I don't think it would be that expensive even abroad.

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Ceebs. said:

And then there's this whole mess... 😂

 

(Not sure which image is a better representation.)

 

 

I generally call 'em "bread roll". I wonder where that puts me exactly... 🤔

[Guest]

10 hours ago, Astrea said:

Now that deserves death by bees. 
You... you don't buy viennoiseries in supermarkets and not in a german discount store of all places. That's just wrong. 😱
Find a bakery, for the love of butter! A croissant cost about 1 euro here in the best bakeries, so I don't think it would be that expensive even abroad.

From where I live, the nearest French bakery is miles away by car. 😢

[Ortac]

Here's a map which shows which areas of France use the term Pain au chocolat and which areas use chocolatine:

 

 

I'm in the purple area, so where I am everyone says pain au chocolat. I never eat them myself though, becasue I don't like dark chocolate! I like croissants, but not pain au chocolat.

 

On 12/3/2021 at 8:09 AM, Astrea said:

Now that deserves death by bees. 
You... you don't buy viennoiseries in supermarkets and not in a german discount store of all places. That's just wrong. 😱
Find a bakery, for the love of butter! A croissant cost about 1 euro here in the best bakeries, so I don't think it would be that expensive even abroad.

One of my biggest frustrations of travelling abroad is the difficulty in finding decent bread. I conform to that typical French stereotype who likes to go to the same bakery everyday to buy his daily baguette, and there is a particular type that my local bakery produces which I always buy. When I travel abroad, even in big cities, it can be really difficult (if not completely impossible) to find somewhere where I can buy bread which is of a quality which is as good as that which I am used to in France.

 

However, I want to make it clear to all the non French people here that I am not saying that we don't have crap bread in France, because we certainly do; you kind of have to know where to go to buy the good quality stuff. Not only is there the issue of supermarket bread, but not all boulangeries (bakeries) are of the same standard. Even when travelling to unfamiliar areas within France, it sometimes takes me a while to find a bakery that has bread which is of the standard that I require.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

On 12/2/2021 at 10:08 PM, Libellule said:

Especially after going to a Parisian bakery with my friend from Toulouse, who was very insistent to order 'chocolatines' and the baker was just as insistent that they were in fact 'pains au chocolat'.

Yeah, I've heard stories like that. I feel that's just kind of annoying. You know what they're talking about, just give it to them already!

[Skycaptain]

Not French, but can't have either for dietary reasons, which is a pain 

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