What do you call Marshmallow in your native language?

fishy_2_0 , 10 months ago

technically their called bezele but in reality we just call them marshmellows most of the time as thats what written on the packaging

kuneho , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

pillecukor. altough, we really have one kind of marshmallow here, and it’s not the one you put into a bonfire or your hot chocolate

decripter37 , 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”.

MazonnaCara89 , 10 months ago

I’m Italian and I don’t have the minimum idea of what the hell is a lichene.

st33lb0ne , 10 months ago

“Spekje” in Dutch

Someonelol , 10 months ago

In Mexican Spanish they’re known as “bombones”.

radix , 10 months ago

Like bonbons?

Someonelol , 10 months ago

Yeah I wonder which word was used first.

radix , 10 months ago

French, apparently.

2kool4idkwhat , 10 months ago

Pianki (which is literally just foam in english)

charonn0 , 10 months ago

A marsh melon.

pewgar_seemsimandroid , 10 months ago

ee: vahukomm = (i forgor)

krist2an , 10 months ago

Direct translation back to English would be “Foam candy”

pewgar_seemsimandroid , 10 months ago

thanks

Treczoks , 10 months ago

Schaumzucker (German), literally “foam sugar”

VitaminDrink , 10 months ago

Also “Mäusespeck”, mouse bacon.

Atomdude , 10 months ago

I’ve read that somewhere, too.

TheGreenGolem , 10 months ago

Yeah, it reminds me of Schaumzucker (German), literally “foam sugar”.

chuckd , 10 months ago

According to my German FIL, it could also be “Mäusespeck”, mouse bacon.

Gork , 10 months ago

Couldn’t that also describe cotton candy? Or would that be more like felt sugar?

EmoDuck , 10 months ago

Cotton candy is Zuckerwatte, lit. sugar wool

KrimsonBun , 10 months ago

Esponjitas in spanish (Little sponges)

Some people also call them Nubes (clouds)

neamhsplach , 10 months ago

I love esponjitas! May I ask which country this is used in??

KrimsonBun , 10 months ago

I live in spain and that’s the most common term for it, at least around the south

Squids , 10 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

timkmz , 10 months ago

Yep så etr denn kommentsrn å vurderte zkrive an sjøl.

jaanus20 , 10 months ago

Vahukomm in estonian

Foam candy

berkeleyblue , 10 months ago

I’m pretty sure alot of languages just imported marshmallow.

I come from the german speaking part of Switzerland and I don’t think I ever heard someone actually use the word “Mäusespeck” although it certainly would he understood I think. Everybody around me calls them marshmallows.

Zenchyi , 10 months ago

I live in NRW and have never heard anyone call them Mäusespeck either

Philipp , 10 months ago

I guess you are born in this century. In the 80 it was what was written on the products in the supermarket.

qtj , 10 months ago

For me “Mäusespeck” are smaller marshmallows that usually come in white and pink and in different shapes. Sometimes the shape of a mouse. Marshmallows are the larger white and cylindrical or cube ones that you put on a stick to roast on a campfire before eating.

PagingDoctorLove , 10 months ago

You have mouse shaped marshmallows?

Unfair.

ZeekMacard , 10 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

Fabulous , 10 months ago

“bonbon” in French means candy

Nioxic , 10 months ago

Skumfidus 🇩🇰

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

Fidus is a weird word.

VonReposti , 10 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.