Pepero Day
Posted by Kathryn on 11th November and posted in Food and Drink, Fun things, Korea
Happy Pepero Day to all!
Pepero Day is celebrated here in South Korea by giving people “Peperos”. They are long skinny cookies sticks dipped in chocolate. Very yummy! If you’re a teacher, you usually end up with tons of them.
The legend is that Pepero Day started in Busan. A bunch of girls started exchanging the snack and wishing each other that they would become as tall and thin as a Pepero. Nice legend. But more likely it was started by the folks at Lotte who make Peperos. It’s a true Korean “Hallmark” holiday.
Pepero Day is always celebrated on November 11th. Why that day? When you write the date at 11/11, it looks like four Peperos standing side by side.
Funny date… November 11th at 11:11am is the starting time of the Cologne carnival here in Germany. :D
I was near Cologne that day, not for fun but for working. *grin*
Sorry, I have been absent here so long but being a commuter between Cologne and my hometown I didn’t really have a lot of ‘free’ time.
Plus NOT having internet access… whoah, really hard times! :D
But the next weeks I will have enough work in my hometown. Yay!
Now I wish I could have some Peperos, I am chocolate addicted these days. :D