飛機欖
simp飞机榄fei1 gei1 laam2fēi jī lǎn
English
- literally: airplane olive; licorice olive, a popular Cantonese snack
- Licorice Olive, Aeroplane Olive: During the 1960s and the 1970s, hawkers selling licorice olives, carried olive-shaped containers and threw the olives upstairs to the customers. As the action of throwing the olives is similar to that of throwing a paper aeroplane, the licorice olives are also called the aeroplane olive.
粵語 — Cantonese
- 即係甘草欖。一九六零、七零年代賣欖嘅人背脊孭住欖型嘅容器周圍叫賣。當時啲樓得幾層，買家從露台掟錢落街畀小販，而小販就丟甘草欖上樓畀顧客，因為動作好似放飛機咁，所以就叫飛機欖。
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk