A cookie is a little country.

[rita-ivanovna.livejournal.com]

My friend from Belarus had a package of Russian cookies (don't know from where) that each said "печенье маленька страна." I'm just started learning Russian but I understood that to mean "a cookie is a little country" and she said that was right. But my question is- what does that mean? Is it an idiom or am I just completely missing the point? What do cookies have to do with countries of any size...? Maybe I'm reading too far into it. I'm just curious to know if that is a normal thing to put on a Russian cookie. Thanks for any light you can shine on my confusion...

-Rita

Comments

Just a guess

[nale.livejournal.com]

Some time ago there was a noisome pop-song "Маленькая страна" sung by Natasha Korolyova about an imaginary fairy land. :-) May be that is the source of the name, which supposed to suggest magically good taste or something.

I only hope the cookies were better than the song. :-)

Re: Just a guess

[rita-ivanovna.livejournal.com]

They were quite good, thanks. = P

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

"Маленькая страна" is a brand name. Like, say, Johnson Cookies. What you've seen on those cookies reads Little Country Cookies (in Russian, punctuation-wise correct way to write it would be Печенье "Маленькая страна", but I think that the producer just omitted the quotation marks.)
BTW this brand name derives from a pop song that was very popular among pre-teen girls about five years ago, "Маленькая страна" sung by one horrible Natasha Koroleva; the video was all pink, flowers, bubbles, cookies and other horrible little girl's stuff :)))))

So I'm not going crazy...

[rita-ivanovna.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that makes so much more sense now... Although I kind of liked it better when I thought it meant "A cookie is a little country," whatever that means. = )

Re: So I'm not going crazy...

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Well, I also would love the imaginary Johnson Cookies better if I knew that one Mr.Johnson baked them with his own honest old blistered hands :))))

Re: So I'm not going crazy...

[squodge.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! I couldn't help but laugh! I too want some of Mr Johnson's honest-to-God handbaked cookies ^__^

~ squodge ~

[rita-ivanovna.livejournal.com]

Perhaps in the "imaginary fairy land" of "Маленькая страна," Mr. Johnson really makes his own cookies and they really are little countries.

Re: So I'm not going crazy...

[sinaida.livejournal.com]

>>Although I kind of liked it better when I thought it meant "A cookie is a little country," whatever that means. = )<<

Yes, sounds great. And would give a cookie a kind of really deep meaning. :-)

[wretched-girl.livejournal.com]

Hey... Natasha Koroleva isn't THAT bad. Russian music of the 80/90's, well, we just need to pretend that stuff didn't happen.