Narutomaki

Narutomaki (鳴門巻き/なると巻き) or naruto (ナルト/なると) is a type of kamaboko, or cured fish surimi produced in Japan. Each slice of naruto has a pink or red spiral pattern, which is meant to resemble the Naruto whirlpools in the Naruto Strait between Awaji Island and Shikoku in Japan. The word is also used as a slang term for the at sign ("@").[1]

Narutomaki (upper-left) served on miso ramen
Naruto whirlpools (naruto no uzushio)

Production

The city of Yaizu, Shizuoka is known for production of naruto.[2]

Usage

Naruto is a common topping on Japanese noodles such as Tokyo-style ramen. In some regions of Japan, it is also used as an ingredient of oden and nimono.

In media
  • Notably, the titular character Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto is named after naruto. In-universe, his name is taken from a courageous novel character named Naruto Musasabi, who, in turn, is named after naruto.
  • Narutomaki was a basket ingredient on the "Fat Chance" episode of the Food Network series “Chopped”.
gollark: I think it would make more sense and be less complex if users actually had to send transactions to transfer money, instead of just letting things make them for them and hoping the things can be trusted.
gollark: That also seems bad.
gollark: Oh, and is there a reason for the system where to pay for things online with a credit card, you have to provide information which allows whoever you give it to to make arbitrary transactions (as long as nobody flags it as fraud or something?).
gollark: Presumably it's for authenticating the reader to the bank too.
gollark: You don't need to have the reader thing have a key for that, it could plausibly just use TLS or something.

See also
  •  Food portal

References
  1. Jacobs, Frank (July 25, 2014). "Digital Monkeys and Virtual Ducks: What to Call the @". Strange Maps #669 at bigthink.com. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  2. Narutomaki Archived 2018-10-10 at the Wayback Machine at the official website of Yaizu City (in Japanese)


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