Freitag@feddit.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoWhat do you call Marshmallow in your native language?message-squaremessage-square164linkfedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1179arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you call Marshmallow in your native language?Freitag@feddit.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square164linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up74arrow-down23·edit-22 years agoI’m German and that is bullshit. Never heard of mäusespeck, everyone just calls them marshmallows and they are labeled as marshmallows in the store
minus-squareviking@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up64arrow-down1·2 years agoIt was absolutely called Mäusespeck when I was a kid, but that’s 35+ years ago.
minus-squareFreitag@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down3·edit-22 years agoWhere do you live? Mäusespeck is even in the Wikipedia article: Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist die Süßware häufig unter der Produktbezeichnung Mausespeck oder Mäusespeck erhältlich.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down4·2 years agoI lived in BaWü and Hessen for over 30 years. Never heard of it.
minus-squareVanillaGorilla@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·2 years agoBaWü here, definitely a thing. Not too common though.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoBaWü here, definitely not aware of it. Sincerely, south of Stuttgart.
minus-squareVanillaGorilla@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoMight be too me being an extremely experienced teenager. Like, decades of experience. Sincerely, a bit too the north of you.
minus-squareKaktus@lemmy.loomy.lilinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoSo 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.
minus-squaretheFibonacciEffect@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up30·2 years agoClassic Germans discussing about their own language
minus-squareGigglyBobble@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·2 years agoI’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).
minus-squareKaktus@lemmy.loomy.lilinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 years agoGhostbusters killed it with the Marshmallow Man.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoNot too unexpected for a pre 1990s thing IMO.
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-22 years agoMäusespeck exists, but it’s something slightly different. It’s the sugared rhombus of the fluffy stuff, and packed in those triangle clear bags.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·2 years agoReading about it, it seems they are in fact all the same. Even the white haribo mice. TIL.
minus-squareericbomb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoI google “mäusespeck” and I get a picture of marshmallows, and a wikipedia article talking about marshmallows https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mäusespeck
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
It was absolutely called Mäusespeck when I was a kid, but that’s 35+ years ago.
Where do you live? Mäusespeck is even in the Wikipedia article:
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.
Classic Germans discussing about their own language
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.
Mäusespeck exists, but it’s something slightly different. It’s the sugared rhombus of the fluffy stuff, and packed in those triangle clear bags.
Reading about it, it seems they are in fact all the same. Even the white haribo mice. TIL.
I google “mäusespeck” and I get a picture of marshmallows, and a wikipedia article talking about marshmallows https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mäusespeck