Pocky is candy?

Now, since I was exposed as a young child to import cartoons, SciFi's late-night/Saturday Anime, and then to Toonami on Cartoon Network back in THE day... I've seen pocky boxes around. With how people ate it, I always assumed it was something like jerky or flavored jerky (I suppose because it resembled narrow jerky sized strips to my eyes). Also that was a longtime crazy with my age group, who could at any time have a couple bags rolled up in their backpacks. At least that would make sense to me, meat obsession- protein. Mmm.

Today, that was forever disspelled to my shock. Shortpacked has been talking about Men's Pocky (how can you get more masculine than jerky? Darn Japanese) and today I looked at some of the seventy-seven responses. That's when it hit me... chocolate coated? Jerky? Nobody is that nuts and it work. Nose nose, huhhh... that doesn't make any sense... Wiki!!!

So what, pocky is like coated biscotti?

I'm kinda dissapointed. It was somehow more interesting to think people were obsessed with a dried meat product (Slim Jim anyone?) than a candy. But I guess I really shouldn't try to compare the rationale of one country against another like the U.S. and Japan. Oh well. Someone get me an apple fritter.