Pepero Day

November 11. What does it mean to you? Most likely you will think of Veterans day. It is an important holiday for us Americans, and with good reason.

Wouldn't you know, it is an important holiday here too. Except it has nothing to do with life or death (although some school age children think so). It is Pepero Day. What is a Pepero? It is a cookie. Not really a cookie, but rather a long pretzel like cookie covered in chocolate. Sound good? They are. It is easy to eat two or three packs in one sitting.

Okay back to why they celebrate a cookie. They celebrate the Pepero because it is shaped like a number 1, and what better day for companies to market their cookie to make the day 11/11 Pepero day (get it--its like 5 Pepero sticks). One legend says that it all started in Busan when middle school girls (go figure) exchanged the little sticks with their friends so that they could become "tall and slender like a Pepero". Either way it is similar to Valentine's Day. You give it to your friends, lovers, and teachers that you like. They get really fancy with their decorations and gift giving. Needless to say, Ed and I only got some from our extra class students, who we made sure knew that we expected them or else failing grades. Like Valentine's Day, it was stupid, but exciting at the same time. Hopefully next year I get more boxes. I already scarfed down my two.

sorry I couldn't figure out how to get the images smaller...so your stuck with super huge Peperos...