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[VanIslander]

White Day began by a Japanese company wanting to move unsold Valentine's Day chocolate.

Then ten years ago, Lotte came up with a great marketing campaign for one of its products, exceptional really. A summary article about Peppero day can be found here

For surprisingly irritated expat teachers' responses to the day there's a thread from last year here

I enjoyed the day last year, receiving several pepero gifts from my students and some yummier facsimilies from the local bakery. This year I've specially ordered huge baked ones to give out to them myself.

It's fun!

[Yangkho]

I'm giving my students pepero, too.

What the heck.

I'm in a small town and I know all the kids quite well.

[oneiros]

I give my students pepero every year too, mostly because half of them give Pepero to me and it makes me feel guilty.

I don't even like pepero, though..





edit: I fixed the later-mentioned apostrophe slip.

[fidel]

[kangnamdragon]

[Swiss James]

pepperii

[Bulsajo]

When is Pepsi-Cola day? KFC day? Lotteria week?
If you're not irritated by this sort of 'holiday' there's something wrong with you.
It's commercialism and Marketing run amok.
('you' being a generic 'you' and not a specific insult towards you, VI)

[schwa]

Marketing genius really. My supermarket had an entire aisle devoted to various permutations of pepero & it was moving out by the basketloads.

[Bulsajo]

[rapier]

I give them away as soon as I get them...not really my taste. although I keep a count of how many i get..

[oneiros]