Why do the French kiss the village waitress on the fifth point

Perhaps sometime on vacation animators offered you to play balls on the beach. A simple game in which you want to throw your ball as close as possible to the specified mark and not let the opponent do it. However, this game is played not only on Turkish beaches. The French consider it a national sport, and it is called petanque.

Experienced players, when someone loses to the nines, like to screw up the phrase: "Kiss Fanny" (Embrasser Fanny). The history of this expression is very entertaining and portrays this very Fanny as a very frivolous lady. 

A girl named Fanny worked as a waitress in a cafe in a village in eastern France. One day, watching the men playing petanque, she said that she would allow herself to be kissed on the cheek by the one who would lose with a score of 0:13 (that is, all 13 games).

It so happened that the mayor of the village could not score a single point. Many people disliked him, and Fanny despised him at all: he was openly courting her. The waitress quickly got her bearings and offered to kiss the other cheek, the one below the back. The mayor did not argue.

All this happened around 1870. The rumor about Fanny's prank spread around the neighborhood. And the tradition of making fun of the loser, forcing him to kiss his ass, quickly caught on.

It is clear that Fanny could not constantly tour all over France and constantly put herself under the lips of losers. And the local same gambling girl was not always possible to find. Businessmen developed a rapid activity and began to produce clay figurines of Fanny. You can buy this thing now by looking, for example, at the La Boule Bleue store in Marseille, where everything for petanque is sold.

In addition to the figurines, postcards with the image of Fanny were actively printed to perform the ceremony (it's funny, by the way, that the word fanny translates from English only as "ass", "ass"). They say they sold better than pin-up postcards.