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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:57 pm

when joseph stalin was a smallboy he suffered smallpox and retained the scars years later. as a result, other children made fun of him and called him "pocky." it's creepy, but do you think that's what pocky was named after?

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:55 pm

I dunno O.O

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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:33 pm

I found out how it got its name... and it has nothing to do with Stalin... LOL...

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:26 am

Yay! I found it! (I'm such a nerd.)

David Graves

Pocky is hardly a new creation. "The first pockies came out in the 1960s. The original name of Pocky was actually "CHOCO-TEK". In the commercial for Choco-tek, the sound "pocky-pocky" was used as the sound of eating the snack. This sound (apparently) can be used for any long, breakable type of food. It's one of the bizarre group of onomatopoeic double-words used in Japanese. So the name "Pocky" kind of caught on from there.

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Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:03 am

Serendipiti

Yay! I found it! (I'm such a nerd.)

Wow O.O Cool whee

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:57 am

Serendipiti

Yay! I found it! (I'm such a nerd.)

David Graves

Pocky is hardly a new creation. "The first pockies came out in the 1960s. The original name of Pocky was actually "CHOCO-TEK". In the commercial for Choco-tek, the sound "pocky-pocky" was used as the sound of eating the snack. This sound (apparently) can be used for any long, breakable type of food. It's one of the bizarre group of onomatopoeic double-words used in Japanese. So the name "Pocky" kind of caught on from there.

I had read that somewhere long ago... And... I'm closing this thread... Mystery solved... I may delete it later... There shouldn't have been a new thread created for something that could have been in the discussed in Pocky Hangout...

(Sorry if I seem like a b***h... But we don't need another thread that will sit dormant for months...) BTW... I just got a blue box posting this!

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