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More Racist Food Labelling: Jap Pumpkin Pieces

Friday, 26 October 2007 by Dr Maytel

sorry about the bad photo, I'm making do with a camera phone

Posted in: Australiana, Japanese food, Vegetables | | |  

4 comments:

On 26 October 2007 at 12:48 Fluffy said...

I've been buying "Jap" pumpkin for years, not realising it's short for Japanese. Kind of awful to think it's worked its way into the vernacular like that.

 
On 26 October 2007 at 16:42 kinakoJam said...

is it Hokkaido pumpkin?
the best pumpkin apart from butternut squash in my opinion! Best equal.

Toronto is covered in pumpkins right now because of the North American Halloween cult. Quite nice but also somehow very comical. Like imagine if the city was suddenly scattered with giant potatoes or capsicums.

 
On 27 October 2007 at 09:02 Dr Maytel said...

you never realised Jap was short for Japanese?...he he

actually I was told, by a Japanese guy, that the Japanese name for pumpkin is Kampuchea.....I have no idea...so link up there...and link up there...I have no idea why the Japs (and by that I mean Japanese) use the native word for Cambodia for pumpkin?

any takers.....

 
On 14 May 2014 at 11:47 Jelica said...

JAP - Just Another Pumpkin. Has nothing to do with Japan.

 

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