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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
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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
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In the United States, there exists a commercially available snack made of individual peanuts encased in a shell made of flour and whole sesame seeds. It's commonly found in health food stores and sometimes in the bulk section of conventional grocery stores.
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Nakatani never registered the patent for the snack. As a result, various competitors made their own versions of
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Peanuts is a Canadian company that produces Chip Nuts, a snack food brand consisting of peanuts that have a potato chip coating. Various flavors of potato chips are used in the product's production.
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