Spanspek
Spanspek refers to Cantaloupe, an orange-fleshed melon. Spanspek comes from the Afrikaans "Spaanse spek", meaning "Spanish bacon". It was told that Juana Smith, the Spanish wife of 19th-century Cape governer Harry Smith, insisted on eating melon instead of bacon for breakfast, causing her bemused Afrikaans-speaking servants to invent the word Spanspek.
Spanspek is pronounced "spun-speck".
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia by about 10 million people.
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