Talk:Melonpan

message: The word PAN is actually Portuguese. The following website clearly confirms this:
http://dictionary.infoseek.co.jp/?spa=&sc=1&se=on&lp=0&gr=ml&qt=%A4%D1%A4%F3&sm=1&sv=2T
Nearly every source I could find confirms that this word (and many others) was introduced to the Japanese language in the 16th century, when Portuguese explorers first reached Japan.
It is also worth to note that the Portuguese "ão" diphthong is commonly translated into Japanese as "an", hence "pão" becomes "pan".
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replies: text: Please don't justify the word's origin based on another wikipedia article!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.161.86.254 (talk) 16:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Is this not the same bread as the South American "concha"?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.12.85 (talk) 18:19, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Word 'Pan'

message: I'd rather say they are meant to be melon-flavoured, which does not mean that they actually taste like melons, of course. Melon baking flavouring is available in many supermarkets.
:In the book Japanese food and cooking by Emi Kazuko, it states "MELON PAN - This is a yellow fluffy bun, with sugar coating on top. It is called melon pan because of the colour and shape, and has nothing to do with the taste. It has a crisp sugary texture outside but light bread inside, and a sweet flavour." The melon pan I have ate were not melon flavoured.
::In yakitate, the meronpans they make all have real meron in them (though azuma's has only meron juice). I assume that the merchandise version http://mz1200.seesaa.net/image/IMG_6481.jpg tastes of meron too.
:::That was the main point to the joke about Azuma Kazuma not being very good with melonpan.  The main reason he thought he wasn't any good with it was that he didn't understand why it was called melonpan when in reality, there isn't always melon in it.
::::In the first light novel of Shakugan no Shana, Shana says "It's called melon bread because of the way the top cracks when it bakes. Real melon bread shouldn't taste like melon - that's heresy!". Thought it might be worth mentioning. I've got to say, I only ate it from two different places in Japan, one bakery one pre-packed, but neither tasted of melon. --Aceizace 00:35, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That may be... Do you have a reference to cite on this? I'd really like to see other sources cited that would negate the information I've found in a book on Japanese food written by a Japanese person. I have edited the page until sources can be cited on this topic. Please stop changing this until someone actually finds a source and not original research on this topic. See Wikipedia:Attribution Caradea 19:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's the Japanese wikipedia article: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メロンパン. Using Google translate, it gets kind of scrambled, but it explains the various etymology theories, and ends up concluding that they didn't necessarily contain melon flavor in the Meiji period (and "melon" may be a folk etymology, a truncated "meringue"), but today they do have melon flavor--at least that's how I understand the Japanese. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.216.103.16 (talk) 05:46, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It only says that in recent times it's become popular for some bread makers to actually add melon to it but some people consider this wrong.  Basically, melon bread really has nothing to do with melon.  If you actually asked a Japanese person, you would know this (although sadly it seems that some young people may be getting an entirely wrong impression due to the "add melon" craze).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.180.231.218 (talk) 14:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Flavor

message: I support removing the "in popular culture" section. The anime references are connective trivia which tell us nothing about melon bread. One sentence on this is more than enough. The link should be going from the anime articles to this article, but not from this article to many anime articles. JoshuSasori (talk) 03:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Anime references again

message: The Pinapple bun is at least 70 years old, according to the article. How far back can we trace Melon pan?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.249.244.5 (talk) 21:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Earliest appearance?