Customer: What type of bread is this?
Male clerk: It's a pasta type.
Customer: Huh?
Female clerk: He means that it's made from semolina flour.
— Paul Azamino bakery, Azamino Station, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Overheard by a Japan Times On Sunday reader
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