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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At heart, all Souls games are about murdering the ruling class. That’s what makes them so neat.
Sylvester Stallone absolutely smashed in pit row before this F1 race lmao
Holy fucking shit the Canadian liberal party is offering restaurants no taxes on sales for December as some kinda economy boost bullshit. I wish death and suffering to all those who made that fucking choice. A one bedroom apartment is 2 fucking grand. I am living hand to fucking mouth and you’re gonna give my boss an entire month of no taxes? She isn’t even dripping prices, so customers aren’t seeing the savings, she’s just gonna make 15% more the next month. I hope she dies in a house fire.
i’m fucking losing it how is Arcane season 2 doing imperialism on top of all the class and interpersonal conflicts. and the art direction and the cinematography
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The owner of the restaurant I work with has a fucking social.media manager that I’m sure makes like…triple my pay who’s been coming around and trying to take photos for Christmas bullshit Instagram.promotion or whatever, which bo one looks at cause it’s fucking ads, a tone who follows a restaurant on social is a bot or someone I’d rather see starve than feed, what kind of pervert does that? Anyway, she is going around taking photos everywhere and she takes a fucking unsolicited photo of me at work. I immediately made.it absolutely clear to the chef who was next to me that I do not at all consent to my likeness being used for promotional material, especially without consent or compensation and that it is not part of our jobs to be advertising models. If my face shows up on a single post I will go to the labor board. I will absolutely NOT appear in an advertisement for anything I don’t personally endorse and won’t have my likeness used to promote a business that’s already exploiting my labor. I intentionally looked miserable in any photo I may have been in, but what the real fuck? You can’t take pictures of people where they work and post it publicly. It’s dangerous. Anyway, I’m sure I’ve lost more points with the owner, but the chef actually agreed with my points and I’m in a ‘fire me if you dare’ sort of position, I’m not easily replaced and absolutely essential to the place operating.
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I vaguely remember hearing of a sci-fi short story where an anthropologist is examining a society, and keeps bouncing back and forth about who is exploiting who. My memory of it seems to be its apologia for current power structures, where perhaps it is the Rich who are truly oppressed because the poor can withold their labour and produce and thus perhaps we should not be so hasty about who is exploiting who. However, this short story might have been critical of that idea also, I didn’t actually read it, it just got mentioned in a sci-fi club 15 years ago and popped into my brain?
(it may not have been an anthropologist)
(it may have involved a class of people living underground)
There’s one where aliens are talking about how the cars rule the world and humans are a slave society built to drill, refine and fill cars with gas.
Close and thematically similar, but that doesn’t sound right. I think one of the “races” of people were insects or something.
But also I may be misremembering
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So my crush has actually been on PTO for a bit and I think I mistook what she had said about taking it in December. So take two for date two is gonna happen tomorrow once I know how my next day off is going to look like. I would have shot for tomorrow, but I’ve got a few things to do, so I won’t have much of a real change to go out. Depending on if I can get everything done I should have my next day off completely free.
To those that are awaiting Kirbs, I’m tired and need to get up kinda early tomorrow. After that it’s my weekend and I’ll have 2 full days to bang em out.
