Yes, and, to be serious for a moment, or, at least as serious as I get right before Purim, that's where the name of the pastry comes from.
"Hamentashen" are the same thing as a medieval German cookie called the "mohntash", or "poppyseed pocket". Apparently, someone speaking Yiddish one day said, "Hey, look at the mohntash," or something like that, which would be "ha-montash", and someone else said, "Hee! That sounds like the name of the bad guy in the Purim story," so they made a bunch of mohntashes for Purim and told everyone they were "ha-montashen", and everyone thought that a) that was funny and b) they actually tasted pretty darned good, and you had to give shalach manot anyway, so they stuck around.
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Date: 2007-03-02 06:54 pm (UTC)"Hamentashen" are the same thing as a medieval German cookie called the "mohntash", or "poppyseed pocket". Apparently, someone speaking Yiddish one day said, "Hey, look at the mohntash," or something like that, which would be "ha-montash", and someone else said, "Hee! That sounds like the name of the bad guy in the Purim story," so they made a bunch of mohntashes for Purim and told everyone they were "ha-montashen", and everyone thought that a) that was funny and b) they actually tasted pretty darned good, and you had to give shalach manot anyway, so they stuck around.