On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 7:37:28 AM UTC-10, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 9/18/2016 10:32 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 1:43:50 AM UTC-10, Janet wrote:
> >> In article >, says...
> >>>
> >>> On 9/16/2016 12:43 PM, wrote:
> >>>> In the past both Spain and Portugal were very important.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> That would be true. The Portuguese were the first great explorers of the
> >>> world. My guess is that a Portuguese sailor landed in Okinawa 600 or so
> >>> years ago and proceeded to spread his seed around. This resulted in the
> >>> Okinawans looking distinctly different from the Japanese - hairy and stocky.
> >>
> >> 500 years ago Portugal had extensive spice trade links with Japan,
> >> plus Jesuit Catholic missions there. Nagasaki (city) was founded by the
> >> Portuguese. (The Portuguese had established trade with East Africa,
> >> India, Indonesia and China)
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasa...modern_history
> >>
> >> Janet.
> >
> > That's interesting - I did not know this. Thanks. So that's how the Japanese got castilla cake. Castilla cake is a cake that has only 4 ingredients yet is one of the hardest cakes to get right. It is typically sold in gift boxes.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7b9Nutaok
> >
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> The Japanese word for bread is: pan

The Japanese word for apple is ringo. Why ringo? I don't know. Here's Shiina Ringo symbolically chopping herself to bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtehTFNJKgo