Influenced by their time under Japanese rule, Taiwanese speakers began referring to bread as pan also, with its sound similarity to the word "fat" (pang in Mandarin) leading to a common grandmothers 'comment that children who eat plenty of bread will grow up big, white, and fat.
老阿嬤則會說，小孩要多吃「胖」，才會長的白白胖胖的。★台灣最便宜的吐司麵包，台語稱「俗胖」，其實也是由日語「食纣？」直接音譯而來。