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Does anyone have a source for the origin of the name "Karinto"? A brief googling does not seem to yield any useful results. The kanji name 花林糖 given suggests "flower-forest-sugar", but if this is ateji as stated - characters used for sound only, not meaning - then there must be a foreign / other origin for the name itself? Shorn again (talk) 18:53, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It seems nobody knows, but there are some theories, one of them is that it comes from the sound it makes when you eat it i.e. karikari or karin. Syockit (talk) 22:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]