This is what happens when I post without benefit of my library. So it's a Mexican word.
Tom Send a noteboard - 28/04/2017 10:34:02 PM
Essentially, Panera is trying to avoid saying that the name is Spanish because everyone will think they're a Mexican restaurant. The word was pretty obscure in Latin, though - I had to go to the Oxford Latin Dictionary to even find it.
My etymological dictionary of Spanish says it has only been in use since the mid 17th century. The Italian cognate, Paniere, has been around since the 13th Century.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
I ate at Panera Bread
- 26/04/2017 11:52:03 PM
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Getting grilled cheese at a restaurant is a mistake. Homemade is virtually always better.
- 27/04/2017 06:40:22 AM
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IDK where you're getting that idea. Steak is my favorite vegetable.
- 27/04/2017 06:41:49 AM
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Reminds me of a grilled cheese I got at Au Bon Pain.
- 27/04/2017 01:17:51 PM
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I found your linguistic question intriguing
- 27/04/2017 02:48:56 PM
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You should've checked Wiktionary instead of Wikipedia...
- 27/04/2017 07:30:19 PM
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So, "Breadbasket Bread"? Great name. *NM*
- 27/04/2017 09:03:54 PM
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I didn't say it was a good name. 
Just that their etymological claims check out. *NM*
- 27/04/2017 09:08:17 PM
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Just that their etymological claims check out. *NM*
- 27/04/2017 09:08:17 PM
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Yeah, I know. It was a followup to my original speculation about the name.
- 28/04/2017 01:43:23 AM
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*NM*
This is what happens when I post without benefit of my library. So it's a Mexican word.
- 28/04/2017 10:34:02 PM
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You object to cane sugar in your lemonade?
- 27/04/2017 06:55:26 PM
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Yes. It was called a grilled cheese when my mom made them in a frying pan
- 27/04/2017 07:26:00 PM
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my mom buttered both sides of the bread smashed it flat with a spatula
- 28/04/2017 06:48:02 PM
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Grilled cheese and Campbell's Tomato Soup was a typical cold weather lunch *NM*
- 28/04/2017 07:06:11 PM
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I don't drink
- 27/04/2017 09:02:17 PM
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If you don't drink and don't like undressed women Hooters is not for you
- 28/04/2017 07:28:48 PM
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Incredibly off topic. I always saw the Panera signs and misread them as Pantera Bread.
- 28/04/2017 04:01:23 AM
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Why does Disney have that backwards's G (me from 4 to 14)...at 15 I realize that is just a bad D
- 02/05/2017 04:49:58 AM
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