Talk:Russian tea cake

Inconsistency

This article contradicts itself. It states in the body of the article that the cakes originated in Russia, and the United States is listed in the sidebar as the place of origin. Which is it?D. J. Cartwright (talk) 05:28, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Russian

If these cakes are so Russian, what are they called in Russian? D. J. Cartwright (talk) 05:28, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Coming from Russia I did not see anything like that here. So I doubt that it has anything to do with Russia (and there is no links to info in Russian about it) Qrilka (talk) 07:38, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it is strange indeed — I'm from Russia, but also never heard of anything similar in Russian cuisine. Religiosa- (talk) 20:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Needs a note

There's a South Park episode called Butterballs now, this needs one of those notes 'Butterballs redirects here blah blah' 89.177.44.236 (talk) 12:47, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Name of Article

Can somebody show any sources for this article name? I have never heard anybody call these "Russian tea cake" before. Gune (talk) 09:37, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

There is a similar article which has some common content with this one: Qurabiya. Is it the same thing? Should these two be merged to one article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisKorakidis (talk • contribs) 11:19, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Snowballs

These cookies are far more commonly called "snowballs" than "Russian tea cakes." For awhile it was massively popular to refer to them as "Mexican wedding cookies" (or "Mexican wedding cakes"), but prior to this (and still in many families, I would wager, as well as on some websites) they were generally called "snowballs." (My grandparents, all born before the 1920s, all referred to them as "snowballs.")