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Japanese-style peanuts, also known as Japanese peanuts or cracker nuts (widely known in the Spanish-speaking world as cacahuates japoneses or maní japonés), are a type of snack food made from peanuts that are coated in a wheat flour dough and then fried or deep-fried. They come in a variety of different flavors. The Mexican version's recipe for the extra-crunchy shell has ingredients such as wheat flour, soy sauce, water, sugar, monosodium glutamate, and citric acid. The snacks are often sold in sealed bags, but can also be found in bulk containers
History
Japanese-style peanuts were created in Mexico during the 1940s by Japanese immigrant Yoshihei Nakatani, the father of Yoshio and Carlos Nakatani. He lost his job after the mother-of-pearl button factory he worked at, named El Nuevo Japón, was forced to close after its proprietor came under suspicion of being a spy for the Empire of Japan.
Nakatani had to find alternatives to provide for his family. He obtained a job at La Merced Market, where he initially sold Mexican candies called muéganos [es]. Later, he developed a new variety of fried snacks he named oranda that he named after the like-named fish. He also created a new version of a snack that reminded him of his homeland, mamekashi (seeds covered with a layer of flour with spices), that he adapted to Mexican tastes. Nakatani sold them in packages decorated with a geisha design made by his daughter Elvia. While his children tended to the family business, Nakatani and his wife Emma sold the snacks on local streets. Sales of the snacks were so successful that Nakatani was able to obtain his own stall at the market. With the help of Nakatani's son Armando, the family established their business under the brand Nipón in the 1950s; the name was registered as a trademark in 1977.
Nakatani never registered the patent for the snack. As a result, various competitors made their own versions of Japanese-style peanuts.
A Japanese version originated in Okinawa, called Takorina, has the image of a Mexican charro in the bag, and it is claimed to be called "Mexican-style peanuts", though the rumour has been disproven.
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Is the fact that this post exists and is on the front page of reddit right now a teachable example of idealism/materialism at play? TIL Fire doesn't actually ignite materials, it just makes them reach their self combustion temperature
Like people have this unquestioned notion that fire is just this stuff that hops from one thing to another for no particular reason, but when you give it a moment's thought you'll realize "Fire" is a thing that arises from a certain set of material conditions.
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For the longest time, I thought these peanuts were Japanese Japanese instead of Japanese Mexican. I always wondered growing up why they were exclusively sold at hispanic convenience and grocery stores.
I really worry that eventually most media companies will shift toward generating AI slop that’s only touched up by humans enough so it looks believable. I think a lot of mass media has become noticeably worse as analytics has become more dominant and AI slop era will only make that more acute. Also, as delivering slop becomes cheaper there’s even less of an incentive to produce high quality or even halfway decent content.
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i wouldn't really say i have cult leader vibes, but i definitely have cult zealot vibes. i would 100% join a cult and be completely and utterly convinced of its truth and would proselytize the shit out of it
Wow I really want to try those peanuts. Wonder if the Japanese convenience store here sells them.
Well the answer is yes they do but they only have seafood flavor
in the UK we have peanuts coated in (maize/starch) dough and fried, just called "coated peanuts" - available in almost all supermarkets. Might be the same in the states?
Been playing night in the woods lately. First time since its release. In a lot of ways I feel like it hits a lot harder on a second play through. Feels like the rot from its little rust belt town has grown to encompass the whole country more and more. Also some more parallels between my life and Beas now.
i was obsessed with that game when it came out, complex nostalgia-for-things-i-never-experienced vibes
Anybody listen to the new trueanon(tip line 4)? I think Brace just outed Liz(he refers to gender of someone she'd been a few dates with), although I'm not sure if her sexuality was public before
btw should I spoiler this comment?
I've been getting a lot of mileage out of using "neoliberal" exactly the same way chuds use "woke" honestly. Can't have shit anymore, cuz of neoliberalism.
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Sports are fine and all but how do people not realize that there is a very clear reason in college why the same teams remain on top year in and year out?
I learned about communism and I am convinced that I will never be able to enjoy anything again. It’s clear people don’t care and yet I keep going? I have no fucking idea why I’m like this
whoops, wrong mega my bad 
I was once again passingly subjected to the bullshit that is the John Malkovich Poirot at a relative's house
Why does this exist
his accent is soooooooooooooooooooo bad holy shit 
That hat looks so funny on him
why did you make me learn that this exists. awful casting, I can't even imagine how bad he is in this role
Instead of a dandy rotund little man with a meticulously maintained waxed moustache you have a six foot tall bald giant with a gray goatee dressed in all gray
Even setting aside the fact that he does not look like Poirot, this version of Poirot does not have any of his lovable personality traits and quirks, instead he's just a sad Catholic man
think i can still post in china or will i have to 
We are blocked in china because we share a name with a cryptocoin so
This sentence hit my brain like a brick. What did I miss?
Ok so long time ago we found out that we had the same name as a crypto, the then opinion was "hahaha".
Some months ago a mod with friends in china discovered that hexbear is blocked in china and by looking into it it was because the gov autobans all crypto coin sites and because we share the same name we got hit in the crossfire
How do we apply for an exemption? I think getting a passage through the great firewall and getting a million hexbears from China is exactly what the site needs.
a chinese citizen has to go to the internet office in charge of censorship and convince them that its actually a small silly socialist forum and not a crypto site
I'm not gonna make it if they bring in million Chinese posters that are ten times as good at posting as me. We need posting tariffs.
pshhh Just enjoy the mountains of primo grade slop.
They should kill dj Khaled and give all his money to Palestine
is he cancelled or is this just to stop him from suffering from so much success
just did 25 pushups because i felt like it 
feel like absolute fucking shit, i didn't know loneliness could make you feel like you are literally dying. psychosomatic shit is fucking cheating bullshit
We are a pack species. We literally evolved in an environment that made being alone and an imminent risk of death. That traits was adaptive at one time. There are modern solutions. Have you heard the story of darth plagious?
Have you heard the story of darth plagious
star war was actually just a wholesome tale about a kind old man adopting a broody robot boy 
Okay, I was gonna follow up on the bit but that was better than any follow up I was gonna make so I don't know how to keep the bit going.
You're one of my preferred posters and I love the contributions you make in history threads
If Alex Jones isnt put into the voice acting mines, I don't want any part of your revolution
He'll be there right next to Seth MacFarlane, American Dad and Family Guy will be communist propaganda after the revolution
