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The truth about marshmallows

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You thought that marshmallows were man-made? Think again.

As the Nancyland blog clearly shows, in real, undoctored photos, marshmallows are grown and harvested just like corn, coffee, or oranges. Though a lot of people might not realize that marshmallows, in their natural form, are as big as a Nissan Sentra. Nancyland has several pics of a farmer taking the giant marshmallows and placing them in a truck, where they will be taken to a facility and made smaller for consumption in hot chocolate, cereals, and the ends of sticks over a campfire.

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Tags: big marshmallow, BigMarshmallow, marshmallow farming, marshmallows, nancyland

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Sukintu

8-06-2007 @7:02PM Sukintu said... hey I've seen something like this as an April fools joke.....THIS ISN'T REAL!
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Jonathan

8-06-2007 @7:55PM Jonathan said... hmm what? I've made marshmallows before at home.
http://home.howstuffworks.com/question128.htm

There is a plant though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althaea_%28genus%29
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JMForester

8-06-2007 @10:18PM JMForester said... Very funny. Those are bales of hay wrapped to prevent moisture from getting into them. I've driven a tractor just like that (blogger Joe DiStefano has helped) to deliver the hay to the cows when I worked at a grass fed, raw milk, dairy farm, making artisinal cheese. -JMF-
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Crabby McSlacker

8-06-2007 @11:30PM Crabby McSlacker said... Ah c'mon folks, where's your sense of humor? (At least JMF got the joke).

I loved the idea of baby marshmallows being the seeds. Very cute picture.

It also kind of looks like a giant roll of toilet paper, but I'd rather think it's a marshmallow.


(Crabby hosts her own weird health blog, but when she posts about food items they tend to contain boring antioxidants. Oh wait, there IS a post that has marshmallows in it, if you count s'mores... but it's a very annoying personality quiz. Be forewarned:
http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/2007/07/personality-quiz-what-kind-of-food.html)

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JimLad

8-07-2007 @3:07AM JimLad said... Fake! As eny fule kno, they're just tractor eggs painted white.
http://www.heritageandlandscape.co.uk/FullImage.php?ImageID=8
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bob richards

8-10-2007 @12:11AM bob richards said... Those aren't giant marshmallows. They are cow eggs that haven't hatched yet.
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Adriane

8-07-2007 @5:09PM Adriane said... Hehe, I joke about this when I see them dotting the fields around here. Although I always thought of them as marshmallows for giants ;)

Love the pic-- it almost seems gooey!
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wynk

8-07-2007 @4:20PM wynk said... oh man, I wish. I'd be raiding some marshmallow fields right now.
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Andi

8-07-2007 @9:55PM Andi said... MMMM, now we just need the worlds biggest slab of chocolate, gigantic graham crackers, and one heck of a raging fire. :)
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