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gouter

sweet snack

Chocolate Chip Cookies

In French schools, children have a gouter (traditionally, a piece of buttered bread and chocolate) in the mid morning, and have another gouter in the afternoon when they come home from school. Parents grumble that a lot of kids prefer cochonerie (junk food) these days.

Collation is another word for a snack.

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Text © Dana Facaros

Image by Sarah Fleming from Houston, TX, USA