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Re:The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex by speeder on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:41PM (#16650833)
I am from Brazil, we have largest amount of Japanese when not counting Japan itself. One of the most popular "Japanese" dishes is Tempura that is actually a Portuguese dish seemly introduced in Japan in 1600s or so...

Theory is that Tempura is just corruption of word "Tempero"

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Re:The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex by schoen on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:30PM (#16652881)
Another likely theory is that it's from "tempora", a Latin reference to Lent (Tempo da Quaresma) because that was a time when Catholics ate more vegetables and fish.
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