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= Niniche = The niniche is a caramel-based confectionery, produced on the Atlantic coast of France. It exists in two different forms, the Bordeaux niniche and the Quiberon niniche.

Bordeaux niniche (niniche Bordelaise)
The Bordeaux niniche is a soft caramel and chocolate candy (made from cocoa paste and butter). The first mention of niniches in a confectionery context dates back to the end of the 19th century. In a Tour de France des spécialités (Tour de France of specialties), they were referred to as “Bordeaux niniches”, soft caramel and butter specialties. It would therefore seem that the niniche first came from Bordeaux, where its initial manufacture dates back to 1906. It is said that its recipe was made by the wives of dockers, with sugar and cocoa collected from ships loaded with colonial goods. In Bordeaux, the confectionery is now produced by the Saunion establishments, artisan chocolatier since 1893. The Bordeaux niniche is also produced in the city of Royan by the Tamisier family who have been making it since 1910, in the shape of coffee and chocolate sticks, and which now sells them in several towns on the Atlantic coast, as far as La Baule-Escoublac and Les Sables-d'Olonne.

Flavours of the Bordeaux niniche
It can be plain (with its caramel and chocolate base), or flavored with coffee.

Quiberon niniche (niniche de Quiberon)
The Quiberon niniche is a small cylindrical lollipop all in length. In 1936, a new recipe was developed in Royan by Raymond Audebert, in the form of a hard lollipop made from salted butter caramel. In 1946, he set up his confectionery on the Quiberon peninsula, where it remains a family business taken over by Alain Audebert, within the Audebert - L'Armorine house. At the confectionery fair in Paris in 1946, the Quiberon niniche was awarded the best candy in France. Today, the niniche is therefore sold in several cities, and even if a confectioner from Quiberon wanted to register the trade mark, he was rejected in court, thus allowing any confectioner who wishes to use the name “niniche” for its products freely.

Flavours of the Quiberon niniche
Niniche come in around fifty different flavors, ranging from the most varied caramels to natural fruit flavors, some of which are listed below:


 * 31 fruit flavors: apricot, pineapple, anise, banana, blackcurrant, cherry, chocolate, lemon, cola, exotic, strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant, Jamaica orange, strawberry milk, tangerine, mint, melon, honey, lemon, blackberry, blueberry, orange, grapefruit, parrot (anise-mint), pear plantain, apple, plum, mint liquorice, violet tutti frutti;
 * 20 flavors of caramels: butter caramel, almond caramel, hazelnut caramel, walnut caramel, pistachio caramel, lime caramel, orange caramel, coffee caramel, puff pastry caramel, coconut caramel, chocolate caramel, mint caramel, mint-chocolate caramel, nougatine caramel, nougat-sesame caramel, pear-chocolate caramel, Grand Marnier caramel, “Breton” (butter, apple, Calvados), “West Indian” (butter, banana, rum).