In German it’s Mäusespeck = Mouse Bacon

      • burningmatches@feddit.ukEnglish
        14·
        11 months ago

        I mean, “marshmallow” has a more interesting derivation than most of the other words I’ve seen so far.

        Althaea officinalis, the marsh mallow or marshmallow, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, which is used in herbalism and as an ornamental plant. A confection made from the root since ancient Egyptian times evolved into today’s marshmallow treat.

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I find this really interesting especially considered I never gave much thought to how they were produced. I guess I assumed they were just sugar and some other common ingredients.

          • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
            7·
            11 months ago

            I don’t think modern marshmellows contain any marsh mellow. They are usually just water, sugar and gelatine. They are easy to make at home, fun project if you have kids

            • roguetrick@kbin.social
              1·
              11 months ago

              I dunno man, that word has some fun archaic meanings based on something being “tatters” or “clouds”. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hattara I particularly like “A female forest troll or race of trolls associated with screaming.” I think it’s called that for the “cloud” meaning.

              • brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz
                1·
                11 months ago

                You’re more right than you realize, and not so archaic really. The texture of clouds, or even clouds themselves, mostly smaller, frizzy kind of clouds are called “pilvenhattara” where pilven is a possesive form of ‘pilvi’ - ‘cloud’ and hattara is kind of an abstract descriptive word, at least today. The translation of ‘rag, tatter’ is a bit more complex and at least a little unrelated. There might be some historic connection, since ‘hattara’ is kind of a descriptive word that describes (at least for quite a long time) a kind of specific type of clouds appearance, more so a small cloud that kind of just falls apart. It’s more like a frayed rag and the ‘hattara’ specifically pertains to the raggedness/frayed part - like the actual physical/visual quality of it being kind of frailed or jagged, like a cloud and so it does relate to clouds.

                Hattara as a mythological thing is a different thing itself and again, might have some historic connection - my best guess would be that the kind of creature it means is something that is kind of ‘frayed’ like a vision or a fog ora cloud or something and is only seen for a moment. I’m unfamiliar with that one, though I’ve read a ton about folk beliefs and mythlogy here.

        • Dandroid@dandroid.app
          1·
          11 months ago

          I watch a lot of hockey, so I hear a lot of Finnish names. I find it fun that you can so easily guess that a name or word is Finnish, and hattara is no exception.

          It actually sounds similar to “Hatakka”, the last name of a Finnish player.

  • RandomStickman@kbin.social
    12·
    11 months ago

    We call it 棉花糖 in Chinese, which translates to cotton candy… Which gets confusing if we’re also talking about cotton candy (the fluffy kind).

  • Squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    In Norwegian marshmallow is just marshmallow, but if something has marshmallow bits or marshmallow like properties (like say the white stuff in a bag of Haribos) it’s called “skum”, which means foam

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    Skumfidus 🇩🇰

    “Foam trick” i guess, is the literal translation.

    Fidus is a weird word.

    • VonReposti@feddit.dk
      3·
      11 months ago

      Fidus also means dims/dingenot which seems like the more correct use of the word in this context. The translation for that would be thingamajig.

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
    209·
    10 months ago

    I’m German and that is bullshit. Never heard of mäusespeck, everyone just calls them marshmallows and they are labeled as marshmallows in the store

    EDIT: I was made aware that the Problem seems be that im not a boomer. 30 years ago, when i wasnt alive, they seemed to be called this. In my WG there are people over 30 though and they also never heard of this (hessen)

  • ZeekMacard@feddit.cl
    10·
    11 months ago

    Here in Mexico (Spanish) is known as Bombón. A quick Google search says that apparently comes from the repetition of the french word ‘bon’

    It is worth to mention that, despite most of the countries in Latin America speak Spanish, things have different names in different countries, even if it’s the same language.

    According to Wikipedia, marshmallows are also known as

    nube,​ esponjita, malvavisco, fringuel, jamón o suncho

  • Lewistrick@feddit.nl
    8·
    11 months ago

    In Dutch it’s also marshmallows, but also commonly spek (bacon), spekjes (bacon pieces) or spekkies (in this case it’s clear you’re not talking about bacon).

  • decripter37@lemm.ee
    6·
    10 months ago

    I Italian they are just “marshmallows”, but interesting enough, in the Ghostbuster film Italian’s dub it was translated with “gnocchi di lichene”.