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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…

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...

Thanks to @midnitelibrary.bsky.social for digging up the launch commercial. The lyrics to the song are basically "We're so sorry, we're so sorry, we were wrong to keep Green Onion Cereal from you, here it is... also chocolate is still available."

Since this 2024 thread is suddenly getting a lot of attention again. I'll quickly point out that yes, Yoon has since been impeached and sentenced to life in prison. Screw that guy.

So keeping leeks from Koreans is 🚩🚩🚩, got it