# Marshmallows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marshmallows/72841>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marshmallows/72841 "2001-07-17T20:42:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Briminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@Briminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briminator)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marshmallows/72841/1 "2001-07-17T20:42:04Z")

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OK a couple of quick questions:  
1: Do they bake the marshmallows? Or do they just mix a bunch of stuff together and it just becomes marshmallows?  
2: Once the marshmallows are created, are they one long roll that is cut up into little bitty marshmallos? Or are they made as individual entities?  
3: Mini-marshmallows…big marshmallows made small? How?

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**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marshmallows/72841/2 "2001-07-17T20:51:20Z")

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> **[How Do They Make Marshmallows?](https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question128.htm)**
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> I've got three questions: What is a marshmallow? How do they make marshmallows? And why do they call them "marshmallows"?

Good site.