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Bread shop PHOTO BY MICHAEL HOKIN

Wednesday 17th September, 05:42 AM JST

A bakery with an unusual name in Isezaki.

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  • frontandcentre at 10:32 AM JST - 17th September

    smithinjapan - in your original comment you correctly observed that "pain" was French and that "as usual the Japanese messed it up and added English to the mix." If you were not referring to the word "Parler" as being English, what were you talking about and how am I incorrect? You seem to be a little confused...

    ...anyway, not to worry, whether an intentional English pun or not, it's an attention grabbing name, so it has certainly done its job, rather like the name "Feat of Clay" that I once saw used for a porcelain company!

  • Sarge at 10:36 AM JST - 17th September

    This photo made me chuckle.

  • smithinjapan at 10:58 AM JST - 17th September

    frontandcentre: "If you were not referring to the word "Parler" as being English, what were you talking about and how am I incorrect? You seem to be a little confused..."

    You really ought to read things more clearly (says the person who didn't bother reading the sign in the first place). In my second post I fully admitted that I didn't even READ the second word in the sign carefully; it was YOU who jumped to the conclusion that I therefore meant something like 'Parlour', no? If I'm wrong, point out to me where I said 'parlour'. I DID indeed say that it was yet another example of them mixing English/French (another example is the oft romanized 'choux cream' -- pronounced 'shoe cream' here -- instead of 'choux creme' minus the accents), and then wrote my commenting admonishing myself for not looking more carefully, and saying you ought to do the same. The word 'parler' is of course not English, but as everyone has rightly pointed out, the dictionary form of the word 'speak'. I quite simply looked at the 'pain' part and drew the wrong conclusions about the second word. My bad.

    Not me who's confused, my friend, clearly. Confusion would infer that I looked and misunderstood or could not differentiate, as you have done with my posts.

    Anyway, take it easy. (and did you change the spelling in your handle?)

  • smithinjapan at 10:59 AM JST - 17th September

    sarge: The photo is nothing special... personally, I like the curry shop chain called simply, 'T & A' with psychadelic colours on many of its shops awnings.

  • doombird at 11:45 AM JST - 17th September

    Sometimes I believe that these catchy names are purely lucky Japanese combinations, and other times I'm sure that there's a foreigner behind the scenes somewhere, coming up with names for things and chuckling to himself. There is a small bar/restaurant in a tiny back street of downtown Kyoto called "Cabbages & Condoms." And how about the bento box manufacturer "Lube Sheep?"

  • beavis at 11:59 AM JST - 17th September

    Very entertaining! The sign could also suggest that the establishment is an S&M club that will flog you with a stalk of wheat. Great photo JT. Some years ago there was a fish restaurant on Roppongi dori called Jus de Peche. In French we would read this as Juice of the fisherman. Never ate, or drank there.

  • jerseyboy at 12:00 PM JST - 17th September

    Since I have a passing familiarity with French, this at least makes me laugh at what I presume is the intended play on words/pun. However, the "Foodium" in Shinagawa station still leaves me scratching my head as to what the person who created that name had in mind.

  • blvtzpk at 01:32 PM JST - 17th September

    smithinjapan: personally, I like the curry shop chain called simply, 'T and A' with psychadelic colours on many of its shops awnings.

    Are there pasties and tassles on the samosa? Just asking.

  • Nessie at 01:47 PM JST - 17th September

    As the oncologists say, "no pan, no gan."

  • Nessie at 01:56 PM JST - 17th September

    I thought only pirates could claim parler.

  • Sanatan22 at 02:20 PM JST - 17th September

    In Katsura, Kyoto, there is a pet show with the name POO - yes, without the H.

  • Sanatan22 at 02:25 PM JST - 17th September

    Sorry, I meant a 'pet shop' with the name POO without the H and there used to be a bakery in my neighborhood that sold 'hot bums' instead of 'hot buns' and now they sell 'sandwitches.'

  • waf666 at 03:57 PM JST - 17th September

    yeah let's talk about bread

  • Sarge at 04:35 PM JST - 17th September

    There's a real pain parlor up the street from my place - Taiwan-style foot massage. They'll have you howling in pain in no time!

  • Bizarro at 11:41 PM JST - 17th September

    Tangentially related: My favorite sign for an establishment is a pet grooming salon in Austin, Texas that goes by the name, "Doggy Styles".

    Cheers,

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