Pepero Day

Happy Pepero Day! For everyone who isn't out there celebrating Pepero Day get with the program please. In all seriousness Pepero Day is celebrated every year by giving your friends but more importantly your girl/boyfriend Pepero. What is Pepero?...Pepero is a long thin bread stick similar to a pretzel dipped in chocolate and can be topped with an assortment of other goodies. Being the curious cat that I am I started asking around to find out more behind this day of chocolate sticks. I heard a few different reasons including one that explained Pepero day as a day to wish for young girls to grow up tall and thin. I guess its just wishful thinking on the Koreans part but I knew that this was shit and I went searching for a more logical explanation. It didn't take long as one of the women that I tutor explained that it always occurs on 11.11 since the date resembles the 과자 (that's snack for all you idiots who don't know Korean.) This then led into foreseen explanation of how the Pepero companies formed this holiday as a ploy to push thousands of chocolate sticks down the throats of all Korean men, women, and children. You gotta love that good ole' American Capitalistic spirit!

Side note: I can't imagine what next year will be like...11.11.11 spells PEPERO HEAVEN!!!