Sweet treats from Notre-Dame de la Garde

My baby bottle pouch in the bag

I saw the Virgin wanted to immerse herself in childhood memories, the sweets after school, the 10 franc coin (for the older ones) in her pocket... Wednesday afternoons at the candy store and innocently stealing one, or two as she passed by... (and oh, that's okay, huh...).

Why La Biberine? Because we are real Marseillais, my spoiled one! And imagine that "La Biberine" was a fashionable confectionery, made in the 1920s. It was a fine sweet powder, enriched with delicious flavors of mint, orange or lemon. From the 1950s, the famous confectionery Le Mistral, established in the Saint-Menet district of the beautiful city of Marseille, took over its production.

The Biberine was carefully packaged in a bag containing a few grams and sold with a liquorice blowtorch, allowing the powder to be sucked up. Originally, the confectionery was contained in a paper cone shape, the end of which was cut off to suck up the powder like a baby bottle. It was from this particularity that its name was inspired. But the paper, quickly impregnated with saliva, became damp and let the powder escape on the faces and clothes of the youngest. This unfortunate inconvenience gave rise to the expression "to fall or go in a biberine", synonymous with "to reduce to powder", as well as a connotation of "to fall into decay". In other regions, we could compare this expression to "to go in a lollipop", but it is indeed a typically Marseille expression. So are you ready to go in a biberine with JVV?

Characteristic :

•material: polymer

• packaging dimensions: Length 10 cm x width 7 cm

.measurement of the Virgin 6cm x width 2cm