A sort of French version of this experiment was carried out in Dijon, France where researchers found that mothers who consumed food and drink flavored with licorice-flavored anise during pregnancy showed a preference for anise on their first day of life, and again, when they were tested later, on their fourth day of life.
En slags fransk version af dette eksperiment blev foretaget i Dijon, Frankrig, hvor forskere fandt ud af at mødre der indtog mad og drikke krydret med lakridskrydret anis i deres graviditet viste en forkærlighed for anis i deres første dag af deres liv, og igen, da de blev testet senere, på fjerde dagen i deres liv.