Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoIL marshmallows are a 4000 year old food beginning in ancient Egypt AND originally they were made from the sap of a mallow plant…that grows in marshes…candyusa.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkIL marshmallows are a 4000 year old food beginning in ancient Egypt AND originally they were made from the sap of a mallow plant…that grows in marshes…candyusa.comDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squarekofe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoOoo what do you call cotton candy?
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoHattara. It doesn’t directly translate into anything. Sort of connotates the flimsiness of the product, but much else. Hattara sounds like it could be an iron age god tbh. Oh, oh. I wasn’t too wrong. Hattara is a Finnish mythical being. https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattara_(mytologia) In French, the word “hattara” means father’s beard, and in Greek, the word “hattara” means old women’s hair. I love etymology but Finnish ones aren’t as easy to figure out as English / other PIE languages
minus-squarekofe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThank you for the reply! I’ve never been big on etymology but I might need to get more into it, that’s so neat.
Ooo what do you call cotton candy?
Hattara.
It doesn’t directly translate into anything. Sort of connotates the flimsiness of the product, but much else.
Hattara sounds like it could be an iron age god tbh.
Oh, oh. I wasn’t too wrong. Hattara is a Finnish mythical being. https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattara_(mytologia)
I love etymology but Finnish ones aren’t as easy to figure out as English / other PIE languages
Thank you for the reply! I’ve never been big on etymology but I might need to get more into it, that’s so neat.