Why are sweets "Bird's milk" so called?
Miscellaneous / / November 08, 2021
Sometimes such questions come to mind on their own, especially when you suffer from insomnia.
The phrase "Bird's milk" has an ancient originV. B. Muravyov. Moscow words, catchphrases and catchphrases. It means "some delicacy so rare that no one has tasted it."
Apparently, the idiom came from Ancient Greece. The geographer and historian Strabo in his "Geography" applied it, describingD. Dueck. The Routledge Companion to Strabo island of Samos. He claimed that it was such a blessed and rich country, "that there is even bird's milk there." Also, this phrase comes acrossBird's milk / Russian language reference service of the Belgorod State Universal Scientific Library in the books of the ancient authors Aristophanes, Atheny and Lucian.
Over time, phraseological units spread throughout Europe and even got into Slavic folk proverbs.
For example, about overly pampered people they said: "The rich have everything, cut the bird's milk."
But candies with this name were invented in 1936. The authorship of the recipe belongs to the Polish confectioner Jan Wedel, head of the E. Wedel.
According to the bookletPtasie Mleczko / E. Wedel company, the idea of a soufflé in chocolate came to Jan during a trip to France. When Wedel returned to Poland, he prepared a test batch of sweets and showed it to the employees of his factory.
Everyone liked the novelty, and they needed to come up with a catchy name. Wedel, speaking out loud to his colleagues, asked a rhetorical question: "What can bring happiness to a person who has already tried everything?" And one of the factory workers replied: «Bird's milk!"
The creator of the delicacy liked the idea, and the product turned out to be extremely successful and eventually gained great popularity.
So the ancient idiom turned out to be associated with sweets. And so strongly that it became associated primarily with them.
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