Small butter

The Small Butter or Véritable Small Butter known also under its initial VPB is a Cookie of the company LU which became a success today on a worldwide scale. He was invented in 1886 per Lefèvre-Useful Louis in the town of Nantes by taking as a starting point the English productions of the time.

Of rectangular form with the four great angles, 14 teeth in the length, and 10 teeth in the width, with its dimensions of 65 X 55 X 6,5 mm and of a unit weight of 8,33 G, the Petit Butter are recognizable between all.

The substantive petit beurre cookie passed in the language like generic term; it then takes a hyphen and its plural petit beurre cookie is source of spelling errors.

Ingredients

Flour of corn: 72,5%
Sugar
Butter: 13%
Skimmed milk powder
Salt
Powder with raising: Acid sodium carbonate - acid ammonium Carbonate - Acid citric
Flavor

Nutritional analyzes

Composed of more than cereal 70% (flour of corn), its nutritional values are recognized:

Anecdotes

the plural of " Small Beurre" would be " of Touyous" (variable orthography) according to a pun franchouillard of the Sixties. It is the pronunciation with the Frenchwoman of the song “Happy birthday to you” (a p' tit butter of the touyous) which is the origin.
It is known in the Anglo-Saxon countries under the name of French Petit Butters
One of the most famous slogans of the Petit Butter : 4 ears and 48 teeth.
Manufactured in its factory of $the Hague - Fouassière to 20 km in the south of Nantes, LU produces a little more than 9.000 tons per annum of Véritable Small Butter is approximately 1 billion cookies equivalent to 41 million packages of VPB.
In 1891 with Hanover in Germany, the company Bahlsen markets a butterkeks (cookie with butter very resembling the Petit Butter French ) called Leibniz-Keks in homage to the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.

External bonds

Presentation of the Small butter on the site linternaute.com

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