Tuesday, December 1, 2009

J-Word Play #4

Today's is a pretty easy one, and quite well-known, I believe.

パンだけど食べられないパン。
(It's bread, but not bread you can eat).

Answer

フライパン (a frying pan)
There are also other acceptable answers, such as たんぱん (shorts).

This pun is based around the fact that the Japanese word for bread is パン (pan). Other words, such as フライパン(furaipan), which is clearily inedible, contain the word "pan."

2 comments:

  1. You didn't set it up so we could get prizes for guessing correctly before hitting the "show" button.

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  2. Dang, you're right. I guess I could take a cue from some of my senior bloggers and offer a free beer to a randomly selected winner. Next time. =)

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