Tonjiru or Butajiru (豚汁) - both literary mean pig/pork soup - is a Japanese soup with made with pork and miso paste. Other ingredients may include seaweed, spring onions, daikon radish and other vegetables, and tofu. It is often eaten after marathons and other long distance races. Jump to: navigation, search Soup is a savoury liquid food that is made by boiling ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. ... Miso (Japanese: 味噌) is a thick paste made by fermenting soybeans with kōji (麹, Aspergillus oryzae) and sea salt. ... Seaweed covered rocks in the UK Phycologists consider seaweed to refer any of a large number of marine benthic algae that are multicellular, macrothallic (large-bodied), and thus differentiated from most algae that tend towards microscopic size (Smith, 1944). ... The common name scallion is associated with various members of the genus Allium that lack a fully-developed bulb. ... A pile of daikon in the supermarket Daikon (大根) is a mild-flavored Japanese giant white radish usually called daikon radish in US supermarkets. ... Tofu, sometimes also called bean curd, is a food made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. ...

Some Brazilian-Japanese people have said that "Butajiru" could also be an ethnic slur as the sound of "butajiru" (buta meaning pig) is similar to the Japanese pronunciation of "Brazil" ("burajiru"). However, this is far-fetched. Remember, Japanese think in chinese characters (kanji) which have very clear definitions. Rather, it is a division of area, i.e., from Tokyo (roughly) northward "tonjiru" seems preferred. Many older people though, also use "Butajuru." In restaurants, the dish is usually called Tonjiru. The following is a list of ethnic slurs that are, or have been, used to refer to members of a given ethnicity (or in some cases, nationality, region, or religion) in a derogatory or pejorative manner. ...