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04-03-2011, 06:42 PM

I think Pocky is really popular for two reasons. First, it's one of the most easily accessible snack foods outside of Japan. I mean, you can even find it at like Walmart; you don't have to go to Asian grocers to find it. And second, it's kind of hard to screw up a pretzel stick with chocolate on it. You'll be hard pressed to find people who don't mind it at the very least.

I personally don't really care for Pocky because it's just that; a pretzel stick with chocolate. Because I'm in Japan, there's a much wider variety of junk foods so one doesn't have to limit themselves to what they can only find outside of the country (like Pocky, Yan-Yan, etc).


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