The Chocolate Croissant Controversy 

I feel like both the "chocolatine" and the " pain au chocolate" people would be mad at you calling it a chocolate crossoaint

Going down to southern France to yell out ”It’s pain au chocolat!” I’ve got nothing toulouse.

The French people: protesting The French parliament: Debates over pastry

As a foreigner who speaks French, I'd ask for a "pain au chocolat" in the south and a "chocolatine" up in the North and see the horror on their faces.

STOP I could've dropped my croissant

Northern France: Pain au Chocolat! Southern France: Chocolatine! Everywhere else: chocolate 𝒸𝓌𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓃𝓉

That’s like asking Americans “is it pop or soda?”

Hello, i live in Toulouse and here are some explanations. Chocolatine comes from the Occitan (South West french regional language, also spoken in north Italy and Spain) word "Chocolatina" which means "little chocolate" (-ina = feminine little). So chocolatine is just an old translated "patois" (dialect, slang) word. Since french people are very proud and tied with their regional culture, people from South West (especialy people from Bordeaux and Toulouse) use it to distinguish themself from people living in in the capital. So chocolatine is part of cultural heritage. There is no debate, both word can be used, and loosing one of them would be sad for french language.

I was searching about French Revolution.I guess this fits the description.

My Country's Parliament:Hunger!Poverty!Economy! Meanwhile in the French Parliament:Pain Au Chocolat vs Chocolatine.

People debating over pastry is the most French thing I ever seen

French people in 1776 : Hey let's help out those American guys in their independance war, they seem like nice fellas. Americans in 2019 : "chocolate croissant" French people : WHAT HAVE WE DONE !?

These subtitles really help me understand what they were saying in french! Of course! They were all saying "a foreign language"!

Sincerely speaking I've never heard of "chocolatine" until today...

Britain has Brexit, World has Global Warming USA has a hurricane... *MEANWHILE IN FRANCE:*

Great Big Story: *interviews people across France about the correct terminology for a chocolatine/pain au chocolat* Also Great Big Story: *titles video The Great Chocolate Croissant Controversy*

Brace yourselves, the war of the chocolate croissant is coming soon

This issue is "pain" au le butt.

Normal people: different dialects exist and different people call things different things The french: what we call chocolate croissants deserves political debate

In México there's a northern vs southern debate whether "quesadillas" need to have cheese.

Man i wish this was the only thing people argue about, then after 5 minutes there like let's just eat the damn thing.😚😋🥐🍫

Wow, imagine the coming French civil war with those chocolate croissant cannons throwing around. Gonna be a Great Patisserie War indeed.

1:43 Ah yes, chocolatine tastes like chocolatine

In Quebec we say Chocolatine as well, you can’t imagine how triggered I was when I read chocolate croissant

*Northerners:* "Pain au Chocolat" *Southerners:* "Chocolatine" *Foreigners:* "cRoiSSaNt" (even though it isn't crescent-shaped at all)

Chocolatine: 1.10 Pain au chocolat: 1.20 I aint French, but I know which team I'm backing

People who don't speak french: Pain au Chocolatine and it's done! All the french people: *Ça ne marche paaaaaas* !!!

omg the language sounds so pretty when that guy is speaking it the “pain au chocolat” guy

As a french guy, calling it a chocolate croissant is just the worst

OH MY GOD' this debate is everywhere here in France, and I'm glad foreigners can finally understand what all the mess is about

Meanwhile in America West + East Coast: SODA! North: POP! South: COKE!

Doctor: how painful is it? Frenchman: pain au chocolate

Well we can all agree it's not chocolate croissant like the title says

why not just say it "pain au chocolatine"?

Meanwhile, me, a Belgian: Couque au chocolat

OMG!Now I understand whats the meaning of the look I got everytime I was asking:"Do you have a chocolate croissant" at the French pastry!Even my French friend couldnt understand what I want until I show her the pastry! I thought it was my pronounciation of "croissant" that was making the French misunderstood me.😅

UK hit by brexit trouble. Meanwhile in France: full on chocoLate war

me: turns on english subs to understand better because im not native subs: covers english subs in the french parts with "(in foreign language)"

American version: “Carmel” or “caramel”

15 years old girl nowaday be like: "Love is like pain au chocolat, but the au chocolate is silent".

In Sweden, it is literally like so: "Pain au chocolat". It has never been translated! And in Quebec, we call it chocolatine 🥰!

In Brazil we have a very similar discussion about cookies and other baked goods: "Is it biscoito or is it bolacha". People take it serious as heck, I've seen obsessed debates over and over

French people : chocolatine ou pain au chocolat ? Me, Belgian : Couque au chocolat

The great chocolate bread apartheit (France 2019, colourised)

ur all wrong. the proper title is actually: "Puffy French Pastery Crausant Thing With Chocolate On The Inside That Tastes Good, And I'll Have Coffee Too Please." Debate Over. :)

This is the most French thing ever

when I go to the bakers in the morning in Paris, always pain au chocolat. but once went to Royan in the south and asked for a pain au chocolat, they replied ''you mean a chocolatine?" so its true its so funny

Northern France: Pain au Chocolate Southern France: Chocolatine Spain: Chocolate Napolitan (Napolitana de chocolate)

"Pain au chocolat" is french for "chocolate bread". "Chocolatine" is an original name for a fairly unique pastry. (with it's two pieces of chocolate and it's buttery flavor) The debate comes from if the pastry of this controversy is popular enough to be recognised only by the pretty broad term of "chocolate bread", or if it's popularity makes it deserving of a completely original name. That name being "chocolatine" due to it being the first BIG alternative to "pain au chocolat". I personally think the latter as I feel like "pain au chocolat" was just supposed to be a placeholder name because the bakers had no inspiration to create a name for a pastry that would 'most likely never catch on anyway'. Its only when people realized that money was to be made by stealing the formula and rebranding it to something more catchy that other names were made. ("chocolatine" being the one to steal the spotlight in the end)

In Québec we say chocolatine A «pain au chocolat» is bread with chocolate spread

Actually, that pastry was invented by an Austrian baker in the 19th century. He called it Schokoladen Croissant. The French transformed schokoladen into chocolatine. So chocolatine is the original name, historically.

In Québec (Canada) everybody says "Chocolatine" I never heard in all my life someone say "Pain au chocolat"... Like 100% of french canadians are team Chocolatine

Get 100 of their best costumers, but them in medieval armour and have them fight while the two store owners command the soldiers and fight too. Whomever side wins would be the official name.

What all french people like me agree on is not calling it a "chocolate croissant". Just reading the title made me mad :)

And the ‘croissant au chocolat ´ also exists it is a croissant shape and stuffed with chocolate and also sometimes some chocolate sprinkles on top . You also have the croissant stuffed with frangipane (sugar, almonds, butter , eggs) .

Thank you for the story... Really nice

I eat those things everyday when I work so fk good

Same fight here: Biscoito X Bolacha Greetings from Brazil ;*

I feel like every country has its own version of this rivalry. In Brazil it’s biscoito vs bolacha (which means cookie)

The definition of first world problems

Great Big Story just made this whole thing worse by calling both Chocolate Croissant while thats a different pastry.

This has to be the sweetest and most adorable debate I ever heard!

Popular topics in political debates across the globe: USA: immigration, gender equality, education, gun laws Hong Kong: police brutality, political independence France: chocolate croissants

Lmao I died when I saw the parliaments debating over what to call it 💀

´Pain’ in french means bread so a baguette in the butt would be a pain in the arse.

As a french I can conform battles have been fought about this topic

French : pain au chocolat American : pain in the a*s

When in doubt, just point at the pastry and smile

It's like the great pop vs soda debate in the us!

I don't care what people say this is so interesting(and probably one of the most innocent feud/debate I've seen)

It’s good that the most debated matter is about the name of a pastry

You have no idea how many friendships this debate detroyed

It's the same in Sicily, everywhere ARANCINO and in Palermo ARANCINA )))

we say chocolatine here in quebec 🇨🇦

Okay how about this- where was the pastry first made, Southern or Northern France?

Growing up in NYC I always knew this delicious pastry as a pain automatically chocolat and this is the very first time I've ever heard the word chocolatine. Now that I've heard this alternative name I think I like it more!

I have school tomorrow and I'm watching this at 3 am -_- I have no life

world: has problems meanwhile politics in France: should we call this pastery pain au chocolate or chocolatine?

The youtubes subtitles are completely covering the video subtitles and all they say is "in foreign language". Thanks RU-vid.

I had a daily argument with my local bakery when I casually ordered a "chocolate crossaint", as this thing is usually called around here. They refused to sell it to me unless I called it a pain au chocolat. Needless to say I am buying my chocolate crossaints now at another bakery where they are not being such snobs.

With all the violence and death and dumb stuff in the world This genuinely made me smile a bit Just because it’s so ridiculous I love it #teamchocolatine

I called it pain au chocolat my entire life (I grew up in Montpellier, right where pain au chocolat and chocolatine collide) until I moved to Montreal, Canada. Here, everybody calls it chocolatine and I got used to it. I feel ashamed right now, I betrayed my team...

I imagine the split became like this : Jacque: ah piere would you like some pain au chocolat Piere: Why did you call chocolatine a pain au chocolat Jacque: because everyone likes it so much that it has become a pain to make every time and when some of them are wasted it pains my heart

I lived in west Switzerland for a couple years, and they called it Pain au Chocolat since Switzerland borders the east of France.

Can’t believe someone took the time to make a diagram map about this

Chocolatine have rights too!

We have a similar discussion in the Netherlands about French fries / chips: The northern part of our country calls it : "Patat", (pronounced somewhat as "Pah - Taht"), and the southern half calls it : "Friet", (pronounced somewhat as "freed").

I think i have already seen a really tiny area in the east of france where people say (or they used to said) Croissant au chocolat. In belgium they said couque au chocolat

*”pain au chocolatine”* There. You heard it here first.

Some portuguese people call it "Napolitana de chocolate". PS: It's my favourite pastry. :)

There used to be an excellent patisserie francaise in New York called Dumas that made this magnificent pastry and it was always called pain automatically chocolat!

As a New Jersey native who’s heard fights break out over “Taylor ham” vs “pork roll” this hits pretty close to home

when I go to France Im going to break the mold and order a "croissant au chocolat"! I wonder how the french will react :P

I don't care what some say I will always say pain au chocolat even tho I live in Toulouse. Team pain au chocolat.

yall need to do a video on the classic pork roll vs taylor ham new jersey debate

US: "So, you either say that a fizzy drink is a soda, a pop, or a cola."

america: chocolate croissant! france: *so you have chosen, death*

It's rolled bread with chocolate in it, it ain't that difficult

2:48 very well said 👏

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