Valentines Day Chocolates For Me! Kinda
Posted on 18. Feb, 2008 @ 11:29 pm by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Culture, Food, Society Views: 591
In Japan on Valentines day girls give chocolates to guys.
There is also a phenomenon known as “giri-choco” (義理チョコ) .
Literally it means “duty-chocolate”. Basically, it’s the chocolate that girls give to guys because they are obliged to do so. For example, my guitar teacher is a lady, so she gave me giri-choco. She doesn’t have Valentines Day-ish feelings for me, but I see her often, so she must give me chocolate or I will feel like a chump. I will.
This is good, because the only other chocolate I got on Valentines day was from all of the ladies in the office (they put their money together and bought something for all the guys… There aren’t that many of us… This is also 義理チョコ).
This is the lovely chocolate I got from my guitar teacher. Fujiya! Peko-chan!


My wife ate half of both the chocolates I got…
I need more chocolate!
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