Yamato's part in One Piece isn't over and Oda is making the Oden comparisons more obvious with each appearance, but there's one parallel we don't want to see.

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The spoon also has a less obvious symbolism; a link to the production of sugar, which made Beckford one of the richest men in England and tied his family to the British Slave Trade.