[Mini Content] Out-of-season strawberries

Christmas is almost here!

Once December arrives, you'll see cute red and white shortcakes made with strawberries and fresh cream line the shelves of sweets shops, right?

Strawberry shortcake is a Christmas treat unique to Japan. Why strawberries, out of season? Upon investigation, it turns out that Fujiya, the company said to be the originator of shortcake, was thinking about what kind of cake Japanese people would like, and came up with a strawberry shortcake with a motif of red and white, the auspicious colors of Santa Claus. It's said that the shortcake we know today was already invented by Fujiya around 1910 .

By the way, it seems that many families in France eat the Italian dessert panettone at Christmas.

Joyeux nöel !