Valentine’s Day (Page 5)
Survey results indicate that Japan’s Valentine’s Day custom of giri choco may soon become a thing of the past.
Now you can whip up some chocolates your gamer sweetheart will want more than any super mushroom.
Message from Belgian confectioner is a bolt from the blue, but the makers of Black Thunder are only too happy to play along.
The king of giri choco is here to help women who have to buy chocolate to give to all the guys they’re not attracted to on Valentine’s Day.
Love is in the air, and the Starbucks paper cup is reflecting it with Valentine’s style boxes for syrup, milk, decaf and everything else!
Enjoy your night alone, and also some sweets.
Participants say that even if a guy were to spend three times as much on a thank-you present, it still wouldn’t be enough.
Apparently the breakup wasn’t as mutual as he thought, man discovers when getting home-made Pop Team Epic chocolate.
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