In German it's Mäusespeck = Mouse Bacon

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[–] 162 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In English we call it "Marshmallow".

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What a mysterious and beautiful language.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 107 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In Icelandic it’s sykurpúði = sugar cushion 😄

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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In Danish it's skumfidus which means foam thingie.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    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)

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    In Finnish it's 'vaahtokarkki' which translates to foamcandy.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    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).

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Now you have me curious since this is the second language, why bacon?

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    In Polish we call them pianka, diminutive for foam

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Nein, davon weiß ich absolut nichts. Das ist regional allerhöchstens oder ein Synonym für Marshmallow.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Schaumzucker (German), literally "foam sugar"

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Skumfidus 🇩🇰

    "Foam trick" i guess, is the literal translation.

    Fidus is a weird word.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    We didn't bother translating, so it's marshmallow. Sometimes written phonetically, maršmelou.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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?

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Guimauve or Purple mistletoe for whatever reason.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    My native language is German but I lived in Spain for a long time and there they call them "nubes", clouds.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    žužu in Czech (ž as the first sound in Zhukov), but it's often called marshmallow as well (especially the iconic/most common form).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Malvavisco in Spanish as others mentioned, but in Chile we also call some varieties "guagüitas" (little babies) for some reason

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