Pocky
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is a Japanese sweet snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico food company. Pocky was first sold in 1966. It consists of coated biscuit sticks. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoeic word , which is supposed to resemble the sound of the snack being cracked.
Key facts
- Food.image
- Pocky-Sticks.jpg
- Food.name
- Pocky
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Sticks of original (chocolate) Pocky
- Food.country
- Japan
- Food.creator
- Glico
- Food.main_ingredient
- Biscuit stick, chocolate
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.pocky.jp
- Image
- Pocky-Sticks.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pocky
- inception
- 1966-00-00
- social media followers
- 22542
- native label
- ポッキー
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- Flavors and variations
- World distribution
- Controversies
- Glico Morinaga case
- Melamine contamination
- See also
- References
- External links
is a Japanese sweet snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico food company. Pocky was first sold in 1966. It consists of coated biscuit sticks. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoeic word , which is supposed to resemble the sound of the snack being cracked.
The original chocolate-coated Pocky was followed by an almond-coated variant in 1971, and a strawberry coating in 1977. Today, the product line includes variations in the flavored coatings, such as milk, mousse, matcha (green tea), honey, banana, cookies and cream, strawberry and coconut, and themed products such as "Decorer Pocky", with colorful decorative stripes in the coating, and "Men's Pocky", a mature dark (bittersweet) chocolate version.