In German it’s Mäusespeck = Mouse Bacon
In English we call it “Marshmallow”.
TIL.
In Icelandic it’s sykurpúði = sugar cushion 😄
This one I can really get behind
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)
It was absolutely called Mäusespeck when I was a kid, but that’s 35+ years ago.
OK that’s the point maybe. I wasn’t alive back then.
Where do you live? Mäusespeck is even in the Wikipedia article:
Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist die Süßware häufig unter der Produktbezeichnung Mausespeck oder Mäusespeck erhältlich.
I lived in BaWü and Hessen for over 30 years. Never heard of it.
BaWü here, definitely a thing. Not too common though.
BaWü here, definitely not aware of it.
Sincerely, south of Stuttgart.Might be too me being an extremely experienced teenager. Like, decades of experience.
Sincerely, a bit too the north of you.
Nett hier.
So you have never been grocery shopping 30 years ago? I’m sure in the 90s it was the common name on the Products. Now it’s gone.
Hessen, but people made me aware, that it was called this when I wasn’t born and people where bad at English.
I’m German too and we totally used Mäusespeck in the 80s/90s. I guess you’re just younger, today people know what marshmallows are (and speak better English in general).
Ghostbusters killed it with the Marshmallow Man.
Der Mäusespeckmann <3
Not too unexpected for a pre 1990s thing IMO.
Classic Germans discussing about their own language
In Danish it’s skumfidus which means foam thingie.
In Finnish it’s ‘vaahtokarkki’ which translates to foamcandy.
“Vahukomm” in Estonian with the same literal translation.
What do you call cotton candy?
Hattara. Just a made-up word.
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.
All words are made up, friend ☺️
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).
Same in Taiwan!
Do you have a different name for the fluffy cotton candy?
No it’s the same. Then again I can’t recall seeing any marshmallow on the shelves when I visit home. I don’t think it’s a common snack in Taiwan but I could be wrong!
It’s not common but you can absolutely find some at the candy section in a supermarket.
Where are you from? I associate that word with cotton Candy but cannot for the life of me think of what a marshmallow is
HK. Yeah, if you asked me out of the blue what 棉花糖 is I would’ve said cotton candy first but I also had a vague memory of calling marshmallow that too. I had to confirm it with Wikipedia lol.
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).
Now you have me curious since this is the second language, why bacon?
Just a guess… They are both made from bits of a pig.
Julle Nederlanders is maar 'n vreemde volk :p
Nein, davon weiß ich absolut nichts. Das ist regional allerhöchstens oder ein Synonym für Marshmallow.
Google translate “No, I know absolutely nothing about that. That’s regional at most or a synonym for marshmallow.”
You should name it sugar pillow or better we should all name it sugar pillow in our language.
Zuckerkissen
Kenn ich auch nicht
Doch
Oohhh
In Polish we call them pianka, diminutive for foam
Never heard of that in German. It’s just marshmallows with a generic German accent instead. But it’s cool to learn something new. Which region says that, OP?
All the regions, just lost in time. It was sold by Haribo under that name in the 80s, it’s why you can still get “süße Mäuse” or “weiße Mäuse” from Haribo and why it’s generally often presented in mouse-form.
Marshmallow only became more popular when younger generations spoke English more often.
Omg, really ? That makes sense ! I just accepted the mouse thing as a willy wonka side effect. Didn’t realize this could be a part of the history
Schaumzucker (German), literally “foam sugar”
Couldn’t that also describe cotton candy? Or would that be more like felt sugar?
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
“bonbon” in French means candy
We didn’t bother translating, so it’s marshmallow. Sometimes written phonetically, maršmelou.
What language?
Czech.
Is this Czech?
Yep.
Is this Yep?
No, this is Patrick!
Malvaviscos. En español.
Cognate with “Mallow hibiscus”. It’s all the swamp flower in the end. The marshmallow plant sap was originally used to make them.
🤯 marsh mallow, a plant
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Maybe in your country, but I think in most of hispanic would a Bombom or bonbon or whatever, is a chocolate ball.
Skumfidus 🇩🇰
“Foam trick” i guess, is the literal translation.
Fidus is a weird word.
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.
