Science, Art, Music: A bottomless swamp

A blog of a Japanese PhD student who lives in Glasgow. グラスゴーに住んでる日本人博士生のブログ。

Melon Bread doesn't have Melon in it.

お前は今まで食べたパンの枚数を覚えているのか? - ディオ ブランドー

Do you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten in your lifetime? - Dio Brando

I was missing eating メロンパン (Melon Bread), so I was planning to bake one since I was in Australia. But then, I always thought that Melon bread has melon extract in it. So I thought it's impossible to make one with non-industrial means. I thought I need some sort of chemical that smells like melon extract, that are only available in massive quantities. I was so sure that I didn't even googled it for more than 26 years.

But then, turned out, that is not the case. The truth is that melon bread doesn't have melon in it and it's super easy to make. Now I know this fact, I started to feel like the countless Melon bread I ate in Japan didn't taste anything like a melon. MY LIFE IS A LIE!

The name melon bread actually came from egg mélange bread, a stupid Japanese person who listened to Portugese trader misheard it. It is bread, so you need raise it with yeast, which I guess is the hardest part, but should be able to make it in UK. I'm going to be so rich.