Chocolate day?

Valentine’s day is the day someone in particular women sending others usually the opposite sex chocolates or cakes in Japan. There is no religious meaning. No one don’t care for Valentine, even if whoever he is.

When I was young two decades ago, a few female colleagues gave us a small piece of chocolates. It was called “Giri choco” or obligation chocolates. I didn’t get such chocolates except that from my wife today.

I saw a male sales-rep in my office handed this sort of chocolates to female colleagues. Times have changed. Just one month later of the Valentine’s Day, the White day is set, in which a male received chocolate from females gives them cakes like cookies in return. Of course, I know he did it by way of a compliment.

My son came back from his high school with a several chocolates and cakes today. He told us that he was given them by his female friends of an after-school activity. I heard they were all his one year younger, because his same grader girls were too busy to make hand-made cakes last weekend. There was a mock test on last Sunday. Now young generation seems to make the cakes by themselves. I was a bit surprised. I’ve never given these handmade cakes. It might be a fad. However, cake makers may think it’s a regrettable phenomenon that their product like chocolates can’t be sold as many as they expected.

So the Valentine’s day passed. I like chocolates. When I passed by a store, I buy one. So that, I have chocolates in my house throughout a year.