Japanese food consisting of
bread (
pan, borrowed from
Portuguese/
Spanish) in a ball around
sweet beans (
an, native to
Japan).
Small, easy to make, and consumed en masse by kids, not
unlike the american
peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Also, the inspiration for a cartoon charachter named "anpanman" - a superhero who flies, has an awesome left hook, and feeds his own anpan head to people. that seems creepy to me.