Hmmm by the looks of the title how can I trust that you learned it today and not 5 days ago?
The gall of some people smh.
But when did you learn it???
Legit thought the headline was talking about marshmallows in Illinois for a second. Like, we have the same marshmallows as the rest of the country, what’s the big deal about Illinois?
I don’t know!!!
Very interesting, but how did it get its name?
But why male models?
Are you serious? I just told you.
I think it had something to do with this guy.
Hmm, I don’t get the reference. I guess I’ll just have to add it to the list of mysteries like where KFC originated, the main dish at waffle house and what post hole diggers are used for.
This is the recipe I use to make them: https://redheadedherbalist.com/marshmallow-root-marshmallows/
You can use pretty much any herbal tea in the place of the mallow root to make different flavors. I usually dust mine with coconut powder instead of arrowroot, too. Mallow powder can be found at most health food stores, but you can also forage your own Mallows or cheese weed to make your own if you know what to look for.
Now I’d like to taste some fresh ancient marshes mallow.
That’s what I want to know. What do they taste like?
My hopes were up when opening this thread as I hoped it would have been completely plantbased. Too bad.
Ancient egyptians didn’t speak english
there is a capitalized AND to imply this is a 2 for 1 til deal
Yeah, it was the sap of marsh mallow that the Egyptians used.
Saying that doesn’t mean that they think Egyptians used the English word “marshmallow”.
Edit but it likely was something like their words for those things, which then got translated again and again and again.
The original connotation didn’t reach us. My native language calls the modern sweet “foam candy” (vaahtokarkki)
My country calls it “mice bacon” (Mäusespeck). 😅
That doesn’t make sense in any way.
Apparently it’s based on the fact that the colour reminded people of the bacon used in mouse traps. Although it’s a bit unclear, it could also play into things that the first company to sell marshmallows en masse in Germany used mice-shaped ones.
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)
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
