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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

I love me some coated peanuts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago

I wish Trump had picked DeSantis as his VP for the sheer poetry of the country being literally ruled by Ronald McDonald

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know struggle sessions are banned, but can we spread snuggle sessions into the mega?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In the latest episode of TrueAnon Brace made a quip about Julius Evola, the 20th century Italian fascist philosopher. But he only said the last name and I misheard Evola as Zola and I spent a few minutes trying to discern Brace's impenetrable gripe with the 19th century French naturalist novelist Emile Zola.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

beanis beanis beanis BEANIS thread

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

beanits. beantits, even?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anyone want to do some tic tac toe? Seems simple enough to do on text on here. Whoever wants to can go first, just replace the = with X, O or whatever. Hopefully formatting works the same for mobile.

= = =
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

X O O
O X X
X = O

Seems like it's a draw, we could go again if you want to

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think I should at least try to get some sleep (my sleep schedule is so messed up right now catgirl-flop )

This was fun, and also I learned that you can type two whitespaces at the end of a line to make Lemmy actually process the linebreak, so thanks for that!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

It was and hopefully you get some sleep! and that your sleep schedule gets better. And yea, I had to look up WhyEssEff markdown post from here https://hexbear.net/post/3315660

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

I saw the #1 fast food themed Black Sabbath parody band Mac Sabbath, they ruled

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Arcane literally just finished and I am not okay. Idk when the last time I cried from watching something was but now I'm crying. Why did they have to do us like that

spoilersJINX NOOOOOOO WHY WHY DID THEY KILL OFF JINX NOOOOOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

spoilerheimerdinger died and literally nobody gave a fuck thats so funny. nobody even asked where he was. powder watched him explode and was like "noooo ekko come back!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

spoileralso vi and caitlyn lesbian sex scene was real

but even gayer was jayce telling viktor that he loved him for his imperfections and then they both exploded into atoms.

gay people cant just save the world they have to be so dramatic about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

ejmsjejejsjsejmsejsemsejfmejm i am not k=okay

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

twin peaks but it is 2024 and instead of Bob, it's elon

"shitcoin... walk with me"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now this is megathred content I crave

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

HEXBEAR HAS WHAT RNAi CRAVES HEXBEAR HAS MEGATHREADS!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Me randomly writing a program last night that calculates the Shannon entropy of one of my posts and one of that nerd who runs the lemmy.ml typography comm's posts and an "ideal noise" source that I just imagined is noise that has equal probabilities of each symbol present in the uhhh combined alphabet of our posts occurring in order to """"prove"""" that, actually, my posts aren't noise unless their posts are also noise (without even getting into my "ideal noise" source) smuglord nerd unlike the removal reason says, that I was gonna post before realizing this is way too online and there's no place I can post that where they would see it and that doesn't make me look uhhhh rabid

Even better, maybe I just should have taken some averages of multiple of the above types of text things and done that standard deviation thing idk, or maybe do N-gram analysis or whatever

Idk what definition of noise we're using here or how Shannon entropy relates to it other than you don't want too much or too little blob-no-thoughts, they're also probably tech-brained so I might be able to abuse that computer-program-math-proof equivalence thing too

It was fun to write this program though

Edit: just realized that what I really need is a massive text corpus created by a bunch of different people mashing their keyboards :3

Btw I am accepting submissions for this keymashing thing under spoilers in the replies and I might use them not joking hehehehehe

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Their definition of noise is stupid, any text long enough made of real words, meaningless or not, will tend to have the same k-mer distribution.

But for example the Bible versus The Capital will probably have distinct kmer distributions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah they're using some smuglord reddit orange site definition of noise where noise is when you say anything that isn't written like an email to your boss or something lol

Good point tbh, idk is like for any system that could detect "noise" (whatever that means) you could find a input that is meaningless but passes the check. Fr, I guess they just want one of those NLP systems that literally tone-polices you and rejects your reply if it "seems" vaguely uncivil or passionate (read: interesting) to a ball of unfeeling floating point numbers, then I'd have to find some weird way to insult them that wasn't in the training dataset smh sicko-wistful

Bit idea: type of guy who figures out formal semantics just to check all his social media replies and block them if someone was uncivil or disagreed with him before he sees it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I support all measures to bully that lemmy.ml typography mod, real fuckin dweeb there. That mod also considers all-emoji comments, a staple of the hexbear posting style, to be prima facie noise. I had one such comment, whose clear semantic content was "copyright violation is good and liberatory" removed as noise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I got to issue 8 of the transformers comic and its Kino absolute-cinema

im finally not behind on uni proyects so it time to watch and read some treats catgirl-heart

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

What instruction set chu from?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Sweet and sour chicken balls

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hmm people out protesting HK47 seems they're really into tertiary star wars characters clueless

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Damb beat me to it

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