Melon Pan

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Ok, so, Melon Pan... what's the story.

Or rather, what's the history, anyone know.

I get the fact that it looks like a melon. It also seems to be a unique Japanese sweetbread. But... where did it come from? When? Who made the first one?

This has got me all twisted up!

Help!

[Mulboyne]

For what it's worth the Japanese Wikipedia says the name came either because it looks like a melon, tasted of melon or else was derived from "meringue bread". The entry claims it first appeared in the latter half of the Meiji Era.