Japanese snack maker Tohato has a new type of potato crisp that combines two different flavours on opposing surfaces of the crisp.

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Called Jagasane, one side is coated with bacon flavour the other with black pepper. The crisp was created using the company’s new patent pending “CTT” manufacturing method where two coats can be applied at the same time and then have the potato slices baked in ovens as normal.


Each 60-gram bag of crisps is being sold for ¥180 (US$1.53) and depicts one kindly, smiling face one side and a more devilish countenance the other.

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