Happy Veterans Day to those back home (THANKS!).
Happy Pepero Day to Korea.
Two great holidays. One thanking and honoring those who keep our nation wonderful; the other celebrating the fact that it is 11/11.
Yes you have read that correctly. The whole purpose of this Korean Holiday to to give a special kind of candy that looks like the number one. You can also give baguettes I was informed because they too look like the number one, but mostly people give pepero. Pepero is a wafer like stick dipped in chocolate made by a famous manufacturer (Lotte) in 1983. Supposedly the company denies starting the holiday and insists they just noticed sales around this time jumped and, thus, didn’t discourage the holiday.
So, yesterday we played with pepero sticks. The kids pretended to sword fight with them, smoke a cigarette, and use as a wizard wand, the adults played with it in less innocent of ways.
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