The best way to avoid spillage is by eating the pastry upside down, so that the hard layer of chocolate serves as a bottom.
Even before the start of the 20th century, a predecessor of the Bossche Bol was being sold in Den Bosch by a baker named Lambermont, who had a store in a building called "De Kat" on the Vischstraat at number 61b.
[citation needed] There is a version of the Bossche Bol twice the size, called a reuzenbol ("giant ball").
The filling of the Negerzoen is marshmallow, not whipped cream, and its coating is not profiterole but a thin layer of chocolate.
After complaints calling the name Negerzoen as racist, the largest manufacturer rebranded them simply as '(Buys[2]) Zoenen' ('Buys Kisses') in 2006.