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Many of the [XVIth century] Portuguese seamen who shipped out to Asia with nothing more than the shirt on their back, brought along a jar of marmalade. Vasco da Gama carried marmalade on his landmark voyage to India and served it to bemused natives on the coast of Africa, who had to be shown how to spread it on bread.

Janet P. Boileau. A culinary history of the portuguese eurasians