Both #らーめん and #らーぬん hashtags lead me to ramen posts. I'm aware that Ramen is
called #らーめん. But what is #らーぬん?
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What's the difference between らーめん and らーぬん?
Legend has it that a long ago, a prankster saw the sign that read 「らーめん」 in
front of a tiny restaurant while walking down the street.

"What a boring sign! Think I'm gonna spice it up a bit.", thought the
prankster. He took his permanent marker out of his North Face backpack and
changed the hiragana 「め」 to a 「ぬ」 on the sign. "らー **ぬ** ん! Damn, am I
creative!", he murmured.

Two days later, the dude decided to go check the sign that he had worked on.
The sign had been re-painted in katakana this time -- 「ラーメン」. "The owner must
have thought that would prevent the same kinda prank from happening again. Is
he kiddin'?", the prankster said to himself, shaking his head. With a marker,
he quickly altered the 「メ」 to a 「ヌ」 this time. "ラー **ヌ** ン! That's much
better!"

Incredibly, this two-kana-system-cat-and-mouse game lasted over six months
until the owner finally decided, in distress, to take the ramen out of the
"メヌー" (Pun #1). Needless to say, this historical incident took place in
[Hirakata, Osaka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirakata) (Pun #2).

Note: I admit unwillingly that the last paragraph is my own creation, but the
rest of the information is all over the internet if you search in Nagoya
dialect.
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