Apparently different European countries have different ways of saying "cotton candy". (the literal translation from Italian is "stringed sugar") how is it called in your country?

[u/AxolotlAndry]

[u/MPJFRey]

In French: Barbe à papa (literally: Daddy's beard)

[u/AxolotlAndry → u/MPJFRey]

It sounds funny and... Concerning at the same time

[u/Tigerowski → u/AxolotlAndry]

That's the French for you.

Greetings from Belgium ❤️

[u/AxolotlAndry → u/Tigerowski]

I guess so Hello from Italy 😁

[u/thisislieven → u/MPJFRey]

As a kid I had a crush on Barbabeau, probably the least appealing one to eat though.

[u/AxolotlAndry → u/thisislieven]

So they WERE cotton candy!

[u/thisislieven → u/AxolotlAndry]

Barbapapa is literally named after cotton candy, and looks the part.

[u/TheBlacktom → u/MPJFRey]

Huh, TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbapapa

[u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk → u/MPJFRey]

Like the book?

[u/D-mus]

"Hattara" in Finnish, meaning a cloud

[u/MadRoxana → u/D-mus]

That's really nice ❤️

[u/ThinkMidnight2962]

In Greek it's Το μαλλί της γριάς: The old woman's hair.

[u/MadRoxana → u/ThinkMidnight2962]

That's actually a pretty good description :)

[u/oyelefty → u/ThinkMidnight2962]

That’s what it’s also called in Hindi “budiya ke baal”

[u/TheBlacktom → u/ThinkMidnight2962]

Eww

[u/flippertyflip]

Candy Floss (UK - well in England it's that).

[u/caffeinated-chaos]

'Suikerspin' in Dutch, or 'gesponnen suiker'. It means 'spun sugar'.

As a child I didn't like the word, because our word for spider is 'spin' so in my mind I was eating the web of a spider 😄

[u/Nyetoner → u/caffeinated-chaos]

In Norwegian we would say "Sukkerspinn", quite similar :)

[u/AxolotlAndry → u/caffeinated-chaos]

I mean It kinda feels like you are sometimes

[u/FlygandeSjuk]

In Sweden we say sockervadd and translate to: sugger-wadding

[u/DiggimonUKR]

In Ukrainian: Цукрова вата (Cotton candy or Candy cotton if translated literally).

[u/WaitForVacation]

vată de zahăr - sugar wadding

[u/MadRoxana → u/WaitForVacation]

Yeah! In Romanian it's pretty straightforward:

• vată de zahăr - sugar wadding / sugar cotton
• vată de zahăr ars - burnt sugar cotton / caramelized sugar cotton
• vată pe băț - cotton on a stick

Nothing beats the French version :)))))

[u/palke]

Šećerna vuna = sugar wool

[u/Starfire2510 → u/palke]

Which language?

[u/palke → u/Starfire2510]

Serbian. Also, in some parts of country it’s “šećerna pena” or “sugar foam”.

[u/ImTheOneWhoWroteThis → u/palke]

Same in Croatian.

[u/Testerpt5]

Algodão Doce - Swet cotton

[u/AxolotlAndry → u/Testerpt5]

That's cute

[u/ewild]

Українська/Ukrainian: цукрова/солодка вата (tsukróva/solódka váta) = sugar/sweet cotton wool.

[u/CMCLD]

"Zuckerwatte" in German, so just "cotton candy" (or literal translation "sugar cotton")

[u/Reasonable_Try_303 → u/CMCLD]

Hm technically cotton is Baumwolle in german not watte. So it would be something like sugar wadding or maybe sugar cottonwool. Cotton and Watte might be the same in english but in german not all Watte needs to be made of cotton.

[u/crazy-B → u/CMCLD]

Watte is not really cotton, is it? I would have translated it as wadding or maybe cotton padding. Cotton is Baumwolle in German.

[u/SmannyNoppins → u/crazy-B]

Google Translate says 'Cotton Wool' for Watte aswell

[u/FlygandeSjuk → u/SmannyNoppins]

Yes, and google translate is wrong.

[u/Jamsedreng22]

Strangely enough, in Denmark it's called "Candy floss", or "Kandi Floss". We don't have, to my knowledge a Danish term. It's just english "candy floss", which is strange because I don't think any english-speaking country actually uses that term for it.

[u/flippertyflip → u/Jamsedreng22]

We do. In the UK.

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/flippertyflip]

Interesting. I guess the two brits I've ever heard refer to it refer to it as cotton candy. Possibly dialect or they've just been Americanized.

[u/flippertyflip → u/Jamsedreng22]

Maybe it's an age thing. My kids have picked up Americanised words. I try my best to correct them but YouTube is a formidable opponent.

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/flippertyflip]

We're in our early 30's now, but we all met online and spent most of our freetime hanging out online playing games as kids. So it makes sense. They do refer to chips as crisps and fries as chips though. But that's probably way more culturally significant and prominent in the UK.

[u/Antiwardog001 → u/Jamsedreng22]

Generic term in the UK is definitely candy floss, no others I'm aware of, except for the kids who watch nothing but crap imported US children's programmes where cotton candy creeps in but it's not used amongst the wider population.

[u/ThomasNoel1952 → u/Jamsedreng22]

Yes. That’s what we call it in Ireland.

[u/alteransg1]

Bulgarian: Захарен памук (zà-ha-ren pà-muk) / Sugar cotton.

[u/SkyPL]

In Polish: Wata cukrowa (literally: sugar wadding (wadding here being a thing like... cotton wool))

[u/ElizaMyrosh]

In Ukrainian or Russian it calls "sweet cotton"

[u/_achlopee_]

Barbe à papa so litterally "dad's beard"

[u/TheBlacktom]

Hungarian: vattacukor, basically means cotton wool sugar, nothing special, pretty straightforward

[u/SuvatosLaboRevived]

In Russian: сладкая вата (sladkaya vata, "sweet cotton wool")

[u/lascombas24]

Suikerspin in Dutch

[u/AxolotlAndry]

Forgot to add how it's written in Italian for anyone curious. It's called "zucchero filato" zucchero=Sugar and filato=stringed/ spun (probably a better translation would be "spun sugar")

[u/DryCloud9903]

Sugared cotton? But tricky to find a direct translation  "Cukrinė vata" - Lithuanian

[u/SnooPoems3464]

“Sugar spider” in Dutch

[u/veggiedoggy]

Portuguese: algodão doce - cotton sweet

[u/Timauris]

Sladkorna pena, which would translate as "sugar foam".

[u/victoriageras]

"Μαλλί της γριάς" (Old Woman's hair). Because it is white and in thin strings.

[u/Dwashelle]

Candy floss in Ireland

[u/abraracs]

I do know that Urdu is not a European language but it’s funny that we say “gudya k baal” which means doll’s hair.

[u/Sagaincolours → u/abraracs]

It is Indo-European, isn't it?

[u/ButterflyDecay]

Sladkorna pena, aka "sugar foam"

[u/ImTheOneWhoWroteThis]

Sugar wool in Croatian!

[u/ThomasNoel1952]

In Ireland it’s called Candy Floss.

[u/doktorrieux]

ბამბის ნაყინი (bambis naq'ini) - cotton ice cream, in Georgian

[u/doktorrieux]

Շաքարե բամբակ (shakare bambak) - sugar cotton, in Armenian