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Bōkun Habanero
Bōkun Habanero is the brand name of a Japanese snack food. The name means "Tyrant Habanero", a reference to the habanero pepper, which is one of the world's hottest chili peppers. Its name derives from a play on words linking "habanero" with "Tyrant Nero". The snack consists of potato rings, and is moderately spicy by Japanese standards. The package features the brand mascot, Tyrant Habanero, a chili pepper with an evil or maniacal grin. The ''bebiita'' version features his younger sister, and the ''bebinero'' version features a younger version of the regular character. Each 55g packet contains 297.3 calories. Cultural references Bōkun Habanero is the focus of a popular Japanese internet meme that started on the popular Japanese internet Bulletin board system A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running list of BBS software, software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tohato
is a Japanese food company that specializes in List of Japanese snacks, snack food. They are known for their variety of the caramel corn snack, manufactured since 1971. Company history In March 2003, Tohato applied for court protection from creditors after the failed operation of a golf course started during the asset-inflated Japanese asset price bubble, bubble period. Following that, Unison Capital and Bandai acquired Tohato's confectionary business and set up a new company under the name of Tohato to turn its operations around. Advertisement campaign Tohato launched two new snacks brands, "Tyrant Habanero Burning Hell Hot" and "Satan Jorquia Bazooka Deadly Hot" in 2007 in an engagement marketing campaign, by combining multiplayer online gaming with advertising on a mobile phone. Customers were encouraged to join nightly battles at 4AM in a virtual game, on behalf of either snack brand, to determine the winner of the "World's Worst War". The campaign was designed by Japanese a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potato Starch
Potato starch is starch extracted from potatoes. The cells of the root tubers of the potato plant contain leucoplasts (starch grains). To extract the starch, the potatoes are crushed, and the starch grains are released from the destroyed cells. The starch is then left to settle out of solution or separated by Hydrocyclone, hydrocyclones, then dried to powder. Potato starch contains typical large oval spherical granules ranging in size from 5 to 100 Micrometre, μm. Potato starch is a refined starch, containing minimal protein or fat. This gives the powder a clear white colour, and the cooked starch typical characteristics of neutral taste, good clarity, high binding strength, long texture, and minimal tendency to foaming or yellowing of the solution. Potato starch contains approximately 800 Parts per million, ppm phosphate bound to the starch; this increases the viscosity and gives the solution a slightly anionic character, a low starch gelatinization, gelatinisation temperat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Snack Food
This is a list of Japanese and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks. Types ''Anko'', or sweet bean paste ''Red bean paste, Anko'' is a kind of sweet bean paste. Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home. *Botamochi *Daifuku ** - Daifuku with strawberry *Dorayaki *Manjū *Monaka *Imagawayaki *Kusa mochi *Taiyaki *Yōkan File:Botamochi,Ohagi,Katori-city,Japan.JPG, Botamochi File:Daifuku_1.jpg, Daifuku File:Ichigo daifuku 001.jpg, Ichigo daifuku File:Dorayaki_001.jpg, Dorayaki File:Imagawayaki_001.jpg, Imagawayaki File:Taiyaki 003.jpg, Taiyaki File:Taiyaki - cut section.jpg, Cut surface of taiyaki File:KurimushiYoukan.jpg, Yōkan with chestnut Bean Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening. *Edamame * Soramame - boiled broad bean * - fried broad bean File:Edamame by Zesmerelda in Chicago.jpg, Edamame File:Fava beans from the Farmers' market ファーマーズマーケ� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habanero
The habanero (; ) is a pungent cultivar of ''Capsicum chinense'' chili pepper. Unripe habaneros are green, and they color as they mature. The most common color variants are orange and red, but the fruit may also be white, brown, yellow, green, or purple. Typically, a ripe habanero is long. Habanero chilis are very hot, rated 100,000–350,000 on the Scoville scale. The habanero heat, flavor, and floral aroma make it a common ingredient in hot sauces and other spicy foods. Name The habanero is named after the Cuban city of ''La Habana'', known in English as Havana, because it used to feature heavily in trading there. (Despite the name, habaneros and other spicy-hot ingredients are rarely used in traditional Cuban cooking.) In English, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled ''habañero'' and pronounced , the tilde being added as a hyperforeignism patterned after jalapeño. Origin and use The habanero chili comes from the Amazon, from which it was spread, reaching Mexico. Toda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chili Pepper
Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli ( ), are varieties of fruit#Berries, berry-fruit plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency. They are used as a spice to add pungency (spicy heat) in many cuisines. Capsaicin and the related Capsaicin#Capsaicinoids, capsaicinoids give chili peppers their intensity when ingested or topical application, applied topically. Chili peppers exhibit a range of heat and flavors. This diversity is the reason behind the availability of different types of chili powder, each offering its own taste and heat level. Chili peppers originated in Central or South America and were first cultivated in Mexico. European explorers brought chili peppers back to the Old World in the late 16th century as part of the Columbian Exchange, which led to the cultivation of List of Capsicum cultivars, multiple varieties across the world for food and traditional medicine. Five ''Capsicum'' sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68. Nero was born at Antium in AD 37, the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (father of Nero), Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger (great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus). Nero was three when his father died. By the time Nero turned eleven, his mother married Emperor Claudius, who then Adoption in ancient Rome, adopted Nero as his heir. Upon Claudius' death in AD 54, Nero ascended to the throne with the backing of the Praetorian Guard and the Senate. In the early years of his reign, Nero was advised and guided by his mother Agrippina, his tutor Seneca the Younger, and his praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, but sought to rule independently and rid himself of restraining influences. The power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Meme
An Internet meme, or meme (, Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''MEEM''), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through Social media, social media platforms. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs, and other Viral phenomenon, viral content. Newer internet memes are often defined as brain rot. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be Parody, parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution. The term ''meme'' was originally introduced by Richard Dawkins in 1972 to describe the concept of cultural transmission. The term ''Internet meme'' was coined by Mike Godwin in 1993 in reference to the way memes proliferated through early online communities, including message boards, Usenet groups, and email. The emergence of social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram further diversified memes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulletin Board System
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running list of BBS software, software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user performs functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through public Internet forum, message boards and sometimes via direct synchronous conferencing, chatting. In the early 1980s, message networks such as FidoNet were developed to provide services such as M+NetMail, NetMail, which is similar to internet-based email. Many BBSes also offered BBS door, online games in which users could compete with each other. BBSes with multiple phone lines often provided chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social networking service, social networks, and other aspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futaba Channel
, or Futaba for short, also sometimes called 2chan, is a Japanese imageboard. Users of the website can upload pictures and discuss a wide variety of topics, from daily personal problems to sports, ramen, otaku and underground culture. Origin Futaba Channel was set up on August 30, 2001, as a refuge for 2channel users when 2channel was in danger of shutting down. It started as a textboard but eventually added imageboards based on the GazouBBS software. This would later become inspiration for the English-language imageboard 4chan website, which was based on Futaba. Concept Futaba Channel consists of about 60 imageboards (three of which are ' boards) and about 40 textboards, with topics ranging from daily personal problems to food, sports, ramen, and pornography. There are also two places to upload general non-image files. Futaba is powered by a custom script based on GazouBBS (, from , , meaning "image"). The Futaba script was open source (last updated in 2005) and its desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habanero-tan
Habanero-tan () is the unofficial mascot of Bōkun Habanero, the habanero pepper-flavored snacks produced by Tohato. Habanero-tan and her companions with names like "Jalapeño-san" are the personification of spices as cute young girls. They were created by several Japanese amateur artists, and of them, Takehiro "Shigatake" Shiga, the creator of the character Habanero-tan, drew a series of ''yonkoma'' manga featuring the lives of these girls. Shiga later became the graphics designer for the Vanillaware games ''Odin Sphere'' and ''GrimGrimoire''. Habanero-tan's popularity has led to various renditions (some of them risque) by other Japanese artists, and even appearances on the OVA '' Netrun-mon''. There is also a ''dōjin'' game called ''Habanero-tan House'' which incorporates many of the things seen in Shigatake's comics. The game's creator, Ashinaga Oji-san, later worked with Shiga and Vanillaware to develop a similar game called '' Kumatanchi'' for the Nintendo DS. Characters ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
