French YouTuber explains croissant argument that divides countrySame Same But Different
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00:00Always a croissant, please.
00:01By the way, it's a pleasure, but you put chocolatine.
00:03Are there customers who get angry or not?
00:05Yes.
00:05Oh yeah?
00:06There are some who don't buy it.
00:08For those of you who didn't understand what was happening,
00:11so this is a touchy subject.
00:12Most French people will disagree with me on that one.
00:15But essentially, there's a huge debate between France
00:19and the rest of France, which is southwest of France,
00:24where I'm from, right?
00:25So essentially, there's a very famous pâtisserie,
00:29piennoiserie, which is called pain au chocolat
00:32in most places in France.
00:33Essentially, it's like a croissant with chocolate inside.
00:36And in our region of France, in Toulouse, Bordeaux,
00:40this area of France, we call this chocolatine.
00:43And in Paris, it's pain au chocolat.
00:45And so this bakery, which is a very famous bakery,
00:48had a tick inscribed with chocolatine, which
00:53is a very, very strong statement.
00:55It's a very funny debate, but it's actually
00:56a very common debate among French people.
00:58Is it chocolatine?
00:59Is it pain au chocolat?
01:00So people from Toulouse, from Bordeaux,
01:02and so southwest of France being persecuted
01:05because they call those chocolatines.
01:08It's a very funny debate because people
01:10take it very seriously.
01:12I do as well sometimes, right?
01:13There was at some point, like a couple years ago,
01:15where I went to a bakery in Paris.
01:17I asked for a chocolatine, and the guy was like, get out.
01:20Get the f*** out of here.
01:21Like, I'm not going to sell you anything to you.
01:24It's pain au chocolat, not chocolatine.
01:25So if you're a non-French person watching this video,
01:28next time you go to Paris, go to a bakery
01:31and ask for chocolatine, and wait for the response
01:33you'll get.
01:35You might get into trouble.