The fairies make great food. Fairy bread is S tier
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.
French : Barbe à Papa (Daddy's Beard)
The Dutch: sugar spider.
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.
German: Zuckerwatte (sugar wadding)
French: barbe Ă papa (daddy's beard)
The one in the middle doesn’t look like a French letter.
The correct one is "à"
Unsurprisingly it is similar in Swedish: sockervadd
Bonus meme 2
I have never heard "chuddy" before and I've lived in NZ my whole life. Is it a regional or generational thing?
It might differ by region. Or, I could be wrong. (I did try to look things up before I posted the memes tho lol)
There are definitely sites claiming it's NZ slang, but I haven't heard it before. I'm not a professional gum chewer though.
Brits cannot decide
What a cool website. Some interesting info here
Is that their pop/soda?
Greek: malli tis grias (old woman's hair)
Seriously.
Sucrose Wool
Polish: Sugar cottonwool
Romanian: sugar cotton / cotton of sugar
This is a rare case where the Aussies are right. It was named fairy floss by its original inventor
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.
Romanian: sugar cotton / cotton of sugar
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
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