The fairies make great food. Fairy bread is S tier
The Dutch: sugar spider.
French : Barbe à Papa (Daddy's Beard)
Bonus meme 1
We call them swimming cossies? I've never heard that in my life
We used it during the late 70s and 80s, I don't recall hearing it recently.
Never heard the term 'cossie' in Australia, 'togs' and 'boardies' are common here though.
You forgot budgie smugglers.
Eh that doesn’t check out as we say boardies in Aus and I’ve never heard anyone say cosies, togs also sounds pretty dated?
It was definitely togs in Qld when I was growing up. Might be the old potato cake/scallop debate all over again.
Ausies and Kiwis love to give everything a nickname that ends in “ie” or “y.”
In hindi we call it "old lady hair"
Same in Hebrew
South African Afrikaans speakers: “ghost breath” which is the best name for it by far.
This guy spook asems.
Daarsy
Greek: malli tis grias (old woman's hair)
Seriously.
Bonus meme 2
Brits cannot decide
Is that their pop/soda?
What a cool website. Some interesting info here
Sucrose Wool
Polish: Sugar cottonwool
This is a rare case where the Aussies are right. It was named fairy floss by its original inventor
Romanian: sugar cotton / cotton of sugar
Japanese: 綿飴 wataame - also cotton candy
In french it's barbe à papa, which translate to daddy's beard.
In German, it's sugarwadding.
Wait to you find out what we call a corn dog
I've been reading up on slang terms in other countries, and my guess is: 4 different things lol
Romanian: sugar cotton / cotton of sugar
