Illustration of Japanese companies using vaguely European sounding words to make their product look fancier.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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      2 months ago

      In this case, langue is French for tongue, it’s a real simple French cookie name. The Japanese version is commonly cream sandwiched between two langue de chat style cookies.

      • Depress_Mode@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Langue can also be interpreted as “language” (English has the same double meaning for “tongue”), but yes, you’re right; in this case it does refer to actual cat tongues because langues de chat are usually shaped somewhat like actual cat tongues, rather than squared off like we see here. I just thought the idea of a cat language cookie would be kinda funny