Yan Yan (snack) facts for kids
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Yan Yan is a yummy Japanese snack made by the company Meiji Seika. It first came out in 1979!
It comes in a cool package with two parts. One part has crunchy biscuit sticks (sometimes called cracker sticks). The other part holds a creamy dip! You can find dips like chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, or even yogurt flavor. Sometimes, the sticks themselves have a flavor too! You might see Yan Yan in rectangular boxes with 9 sticks and dip. There's even a newer version with two different dips in one pack!
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Fun Facts About the Sticks
Yan Yan sticks used to be plain. But now, many of them have fun pictures of animals! Each animal picture also has a short quote about that animal. These quotes are in English. Sometimes, they sound a little different from how a native English speaker might say them.
Here are some examples of the animal quotes you might find:
- Balloon: Goes Pop
- Bat: Only In The Night / Flying Mammal
- Beetle: Thick Shiny Shell / Lucky Color: Brown
- Butterfly: Flower to Flower
- Cat: Has Nine Lives / Say Meow
- Chick: Eager to Hatch / Lucky Color: Yellow
- Chicken: Kokekokko / Cluck Cluck
- Cow: Moooooo
- Duck: Go For A Swim / Quack, Quack
- Elephant: Jumbo / Longest Nose
- Fox: Beware Of Lies / Cunning And Sly
- Frog: Amphibian / Ribbit
- Giraffe: Tallest Mammal / Longest Neck
- Goat: You Are Lucky Today / Don't Feed Paper
- Grown Baby: Cradle Them All
- Horse: Gallop Away / My "Neigh"bor
- Kettle: Goes Ssss
- Lion: Roar
- Mole: In A Hole / Born to Dig
- Mouse: Eats Cheese / Do Not Be Timid
- Octopus: Eight Arms / Lucky Number: 8
- Owl: Active At Night / Night Predator
- Panda: Go for More / Loves Bamboo
- Rabbit: Eat More Carrots
- Rhinoceros: Think Big / Nose Horn
- Seal: Loves To Sun Tan / Barks Underwater
- Sheep: Wool Sweaters
- Snail: Snail Mail? / Slow Mail
- Squid: Black Ink
- Squirrel: Your Best Friend / Nut Burrower
- Stag Beetle: Love It / Powerful Jaw
- Starfish: Star in the Sea / Star+Fish / Sea Star
- Whale: Biggesy Mammal (This one has a typo, it should be "Biggest Mammal") / Largest Mammal
- Zebra: Herbivore / Fancy Stripes
Some of these animal quotes are not about facts. Instead, they describe the sounds animals make. These sounds are written in a way that shows Japanese influence. For example:
- Chicken: Kokekokko
- Cow: Muuuuu
You might also find two special "golden" quotes that are not about animals: Golden Egg and Golden Log.
Delicious Flavors
Yan Yan comes in many different flavors! You can find vanilla sticks with chocolate, strawberry, mango, or vanilla cream dips. There's also a newer hazelnut dip. Or, you can get chocolate sticks with vanilla cream.
Yan Yan and Other Snacks
Yan Yan is similar to other popular snacks.
Pocky
Pocky is another Japanese snack. It has thinner sticks that are already dipped in cream. Pocky offers a lot more cream flavors, like green tea or honey. With Yan Yan, you get to dip the sticks yourself! Yan Yan has fewer dip flavors than Pocky.
Hello Panda
Meiji, the company that makes Yan Yan, also makes a snack called Hello Panda. These are cute panda-shaped biscuits. They have yummy fillings inside, like chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, or matcha (green tea) flavor.
Other Dipping Snacks
Yan Yan is also a bit like the American snack called Dunk-a-roos.
Nutella also has a snack called "Nutella & Go." It comes with breadsticks or pretzels that you can dip into their famous hazelnut spread. The packaging looks similar to Yan Yan. However, Yan Yan is usually taller, while Nutella & Go is wider.
