Jos Louis

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|currentowner=Vachon Inc. a division of Canada Bread

|origin= Canada

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|markets= Canada, United States

|previousowners=Arcade Vachon and his wife Rose-Anna Giroux
later bought by Saputo Inc.

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|website=http://www.vachon.com/ http://www.instagram.com/joslouisofficial/

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Jos Louis is a Canadian confection consisting of two chocolate cake rounds with a creamy filling within a milk chocolate shell, made by Vachon Inc.{{cite web | last = Politi | first = Beatrice | title = Orange Creamsicle: You are my childhood truth | website = The Globe and Mail | date = 7 June 2022 | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-orange-creamsicle-you-are-my-childhood-truth/}}{{cite web | last = Van Rosendaal | first = Julie | title = Recipes with Julie Van Rosendaal: Make your own full-sized snack cakes | website = CBC | date = 26 October 2022 | url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/julie-van-rosendaal-snack-cakes-1.6629516}} It resembles a chocolate version of the May West dessert. It was created in 1932 and named after two of the Vachon sons, Joseph and Louis ("Jos" is a traditional contraction of "Joseph").{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/life/food/7-canadian-snacks-you-can-t-get-in-the-u-s-and-the-backstory-on-why-1.4102299 |title=7 Canadian snacks you can't get in the U.S. and the backstory on why | work=CBC |access-date=2018-07-16 |last = Skinner | first = RJ | date = 5 May 2017 }}{{cite web|title=Our History|url=http://www.vachon.com/en/history/#1930|publisher=Vachon Inc.|accessdate=17 April 2012|archive-date=16 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416144159/http://www.vachon.com/en/history/#1930|url-status=dead}} However, as the May West was named after the popular American actress Mae West, a misconception exists that the Jos Louis was named after the popular American boxer Joe Louis born in 1914.{{cite news |last1=Lacasse |first1=Marie-Eve |title=Les Jos Louis, c’est autre chose que la madeleine de Proust |url=https://www.liberation.fr/lifestyle/gastronomie/les-jos-louis-cest-autre-chose-que-la-madeleine-de-proust-20230717_EJUELFMDSJBFPNBVPEPVNV667E/ |access-date=20 February 2024 |work=Libération |date=17 July 2023}}

Variations

The Jos Louis is also available in a 30-gram half-moon shape, called the 1/2 Jos Louis, and a bar-shaped version called the Jos Louis bar. The bar contains the normal creamy filling found in the Jos Louis and also has a chocolate filling and weighs 53 grams. The ½ Moon cake is essentially a Jos Louis without the chocolaty coating, but has a smaller portion size of 51 grams. The ½ Moon is available in either chocolate or vanilla. A double-layered variant, the Super Jos Louis, has two layers of creamy filling in the middle.

In 2006, Entenmann's began distributing an equivalent of the ½ Moon in the US, with "Enten-Mini's Chocolate Half Rounds".{{cite news|website = Convenience Store News | title = Entenmann's Introduces Enten-mini's | date = 15 September 2005 | url = https://csnews.com/entenmanns-introduces-enten-minis | access-date = 3 January 2021}}

References

External links

[http://www.vachon.com/ Vachon]

Category:Brand name snack foods

Category:Canadian snack foods

Category:Products introduced in 1932