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Panisse and Navettes
The two things Marseille eats daily: chickpea fritters, and a boat-shaped biscuit from 1781.
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Panisse is the savoury half: chickpea-flour discs or batons fried until they crack outside and stay soft inside, sold from market counters in Noailles and from stalls out at L’Estaque, and eaten standing in the sun.
The navette is the sweet half — a dry, orange-flower biscuit shaped like a boat whose home is the old bakery near the Abbaye Saint-Victor. They keep for weeks, which makes them the one edible souvenir that survives the trip back. Addresses and trading hours publish once each counter is verified.