Monday, December 8, 2014

The Biggest Threat to North Korea Might Be Dessert

chocopie


This past summer, some 200 South Korean activists and North Korean defectors launched 50 balloons into North Korea. The purpose? To deliver 10,000 Choco Pies—a cake and marshmallow combination coated in chocolate (think Moon Pie)—to the citizens of North Korea.

8 comments:

  1. Moon Pies - enriched with all the vitamins and minerals a starving North Korean would want or need!

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  2. :) One is 300 calories, so two will keep you going, though my dist was more nutritional though still a starvation one. :)

    http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=715&highlight=diet

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  3. You have been doing this for 7 years?

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    1. It has been 11 years now since I stopped that particular diet, but went further down to 142 and have been varying between 146/7 to 156/8 since then.

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  4. I am so glad that you are enjoying the weekends ;)

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    1. No, I stopped that long ago and just weigh ever day. :)

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  5. From the movie/book The Hunger Games:

    Seneca Crane: Everyone likes an underdog.
    President Snow: I don't.
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    President Snow: Seneca... why do you think we have a winner?
    Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean?
    President Snow: I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster.
    [Seneca just stares, confused]
    President Snow: Hope.
    Seneca Crane: Hope?

    President Snow: Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.

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    Good on whomever understands that moon pies can be a spark .

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    1. Dixie read the three books when they first came out, but they're making four movies from them. Haven't seen the third yet though.

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