Marshmallows used to be made out of a nasty ass slimy root that grows in marshes. That's why they're called marshmallows.
>>22174198I did know that, actually.
>>22174198i didnt know that, thanks
>>22174198I forgot about that, thanks for reminding me
>>22174198Did you know that hamburgers were originally made out of people from Hamburg, Germany?
I already knew that retard.
And now they make it our of beaver butts.
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>>22174218No.You're thinking of castoreum. Which could be found in some marshmallows, sure, but it's actually just used as a flavoring for anything that's supposed to taste like vanilla or raspberry. So it's in all sorts of stuff, even cigarettes.
>>22174198The mallow plant is a common weed in my area. The whole plant is edible and is quite slimy when you chew on the seed pods or leaves. Kinda like okra.
>>22174259It's medicinal. That's why people started eating it in the first place was because it soothes coughs and sore throats. Probably something to do with choking on mucus.
>>22174267Yep. People were funny back then. Plants that look like symptoms or organs helped those organs/symptoms.This slimy ass plant is slimy like the mucous I'm coughing up. It will surely help me!Oddly enough it actually works like that sometimes.
I tried to find out if anyone makes "real" marshmallows anymore and I couldn't so I just figured the name is more just a carryover
>>22174282If you wanted you could change that.
>>22174282People do still make it, but it's not available commercially.
>>22174287>>22174292 made me think it's probably not good at all, with how spergy people are about food, especially "natural" and traditional ones today, and the ability for extremely niche products to find customers online and the original version of something so common isn't for sale anywhere, it must be bad
>>22174302Is it for sale though. Just not as a finished product. You can buy powdered marshmallow root. Pretty sure nobody makes a finished commercial product simply for, y'know, commercial reasons. Who the fuck is buying medicinal tasting marshmallows in 2026 and who wants to manufacture/ship some slimy nonsense that has no shelf life and no customers?
>>22174254Castoreum is actually quite uncommon as a flavoring. Artificial vanilla flavoring is far more likely to be synthetic vanillin, for example.
>>22174302Mallow itself has a pretty neutral vegetal taste. The seed pods are actually quite tasty if you dont mind the sliminess of them.
Did you know that french fries are made of disgusting brown roots that grow in the ground?
>>22174381These aren't roots. Those are the fruits from underground apple trees.
>>22174292>not available commerciallyFriends from high school are daddy's money Quakers whose family got to the Americas on the Welcome in 1682. They bought an old timey candy shop and factory and did, for a time, make old school marshmallows but nobody liked them because actual mallow tastes like sugary fucking kale-meets-asparagus. The marshmallows got zero purchases after offering customers samples so they stopped making them the OG way.
>>22174198Luckily the jews figured out how to make them out of pure sugar
>>22174330I would rather eat a marshmallow than swallow a pill. Maybe that is where a market could be for medicinal tasting marshmallows.
>>22174708>thank god we have jews to remove as much nutrition from our foods as possible
>>22174282Turkish-style halva made with real marshmallow is still widely available.
>>22174383If they're apple trees then why don't they make apples?
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>>22174794obsessed
The lavender flavor marhsmallows at Selfridges though…
>>22174198I, too, watched the Knight Scoop episode.
>>22174198my friend has 1shot voice drops with marshmallow root in them.my other friend that works for 1shot sent me a bag or free to try.the combo is pretty solid for vocalists.
>>22174381>disgustinghuman card revoked.
>>22174453it seems like one of those try once things how people do durian or stinky tofu. i think it can only be effective marketing to bring people in for something a bit freaky and sell them other things. ive been wanting to go down a vintage "treat" rabit hole and make some weird stuff.
