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Rice Cooker Bread (we think?) for a Snack I'll take the liberty of reading the screen for you: Yes, it is bread. Bread in Japanese is a loanword from Portugue
by patio11 14y ago
Rice Cooker Bread (we think?) for a Snack
I'll take the liberty of reading the screen for you: Yes, it is bread. Bread in Japanese is a loanword from Portuguese: pan. Japanese bread? Ja-pan. Get it? (This comes from the genre of puns called oyaji gyagu -- "jokes only considered funny by crusty old men.")
- anonymous 14y agoI get it. I'm dabbling in japanese currently and love puns like these.
- saraid216 14y agoI think I just died a little inside.
- lhorie 14y agoMinor nitpick: bread in portuguese = pão, bread in spanish = pan
- rev087 14y agoAnd Japan in portuguese = Japão.
- swah 14y agojaponês?
- patio11 14y agoWhile you're correct, it is historically a loanword from Portuguese, not from Spanish. You can verify this in your favorite 国語辞典 if you want to. Like many loanwords, the pronunciation got corrupted a bit. (An example in the other direction: Godzilla, which you'd have to take several stabs at before a Japanese person guessed you meant gojira.)
- icebraining 14y agoÃo is a notoriously difficult diphthong to pronounce for many native speakers of other languages. Wikipedia says that it was even used as a shibboleth in the Paraguayan War, but it doesn't cite sources.
- bane 14y agowhich sounds just enough like "pahng" that a non-portuguese, learning about bread might turn it into "pang" or "bbang" or "bao" depending.
- tnkm 14y agoThe "Ja-pan #2" is likely in reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan From the "List of Ja-pan": "Ja-pan #2: Suihan ja-pan (a Suihan is any automatic rice-cooker)recipe in chapter 13"
- ahoge 14y agoIn the anime, they actually explained how to cook bread in a rice cooker at the end of one episode.
- Cogito 14y agoYakitake!! is deservedly one of my favourite all time Japanese shows. None of my friends understand why I like it, but then again, none of my friends have watched it. As soon as I saw these images, I knew exactly where they were from (it's an audience participation segment of the show). [edit] The protagonist of the show is upset that while many other countries have their own bread (eg French Bread) Japan does not. He sets out to find the perfect Japanese Bread, and in the process creates a series of different breads labelled Ja-pan #1, Ja-pan #2 etc. It's a great show. He has extremely warm hands, which help when kneading the dough.