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Green onions are currently banned from all Korean polling locations, and the story why is wild. Going into election season, everyone's mad at President Yoon over the shocking inflation. So last month, when a single grocery store had a sale on leeks, he showed up and held a massive press conference.

He acted like a single sixty five cent item in one store, meant to lure customers in for the $4 apples he conveniently avoided, proved that the economy was doing great and he was doing a job. Everyone has been talking about it ever since. But green onions have been a political problem here before…

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In 2004, Kellogg's stumbled into a situation they were not prepared for when they decided to market Choco Chex with a pretend election. They'd have people vote between two new flavors, Chocolate or Spring Onion, and when Choco inevitably won, the boxes would already be in the warehouse ready to go…

Two things Kellogg's didn't know about Korea: -People friggin LOVE leeks. It won by a landslide -People'd spent generations fighting dictators pretending to be presidents. They knew the sting of their votes being ignored. When Kellogg's voided the vote and released choco anyway, hell broke loose.

Kellogg's didn't just just call it a vote, they had dressed the little cartoon cereal characters in suits and called it a presidential election. So people DEMANDED their Green Onion cereal. For 16 years. In 2020, Kellogg's finally gave in and made it...

So it's funny that an actual president thinks that if he bans green onions from polling station (which only upsets the little old ladies who vote on the way back from the market) that by the end of the week people will forget all that he did to make them feel unrepresented, gaslit, and ignored.