There has been much discussion about what the viennoiserie many of us eat with our morning coffee is called: "pain au chocolat", "chocolatine" or some other regional variety. Now an enquiry has been carried out by a group of linguists to nap the various usages. Of course such regional debates are just as common in the UK - what do you think a "tea-cake" is, or a bap?
As expected it depends on where you live what you ask for, and we in the south west of France will commonly ask for a chocolatine. The linguists published a map of regional usage which shows just how confined the use of chocolatine is.
Personally we at MdS prefer croissants or occasionally a "torsade" - a kind of twisted pain au chocolat.
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