But don’t have the arrogance to claim other people are copying you when you were copying the original in the first place. Choco pie is Koreas second most popular snack next to saewookkang. There’s little wrong with taking ideas and copying something like the MoonPie. She didn’t like it as much as Choco Pies.
They made from delicious sponge, filled with soft. A traditional Italian dessert served during the holidays and for special occasions, this pie features the classic pairing of orange and chocolate. My wife tried a MoonPie while we were visiting America last year. These little snack cakes are known by different names throughout the world, like Ding Dongs or choco-pies. It also comes in different flavors, like vanilla and banana (my favorite).
CHOCO PIES CRACKER
The MoonPie is a bit larger, and its Graham cracker outer layer is more firm. That said, there are some slight differences. It’s not hard to connect the dots and see that this R&D guy had himself a MoonPie and went back to Korea to reverse engineer it. Georgia is well within MoonPie territory. Transfer into a medium sauce pan and cook over medium heat until mixture becomes thick. Next, slowly stir in milk pouring it in a little at a time. In a medium bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, and sugar. After experimentation with marshmallows and biscuits, the Choco Pie was created Prepare a frozen or refrigerated pie crust according to package directions. He returned to South Korea and began experimenting with a chocolate biscuit cake. In 1973, a member of the Tongyang’s R&D team had visited a hotel in Georgia, US, and was inspired after seeing chocolate-covered sweets in the hotel’s cafe. Orion Confectionery started to sell a similar product known as “Orion Choco Pie” in 1974. I’ll step aside and let Wikipedia take the floor. The thing is, the Orion Choco Pie is itself a copycat of the Chattanooga Bakery Moonpie.
CHOCO PIES TRIAL
Orion filed for a patent trial when Lotte registered the identically pronounced trademark using one different Korean vowel for the copycat product in 1979. Lotte Confectionery introduced the same snack with the same name in 1978. Just four years after its launch, Orion Choco Pie met a copycat rival at home. The two small, round chocolate-covered layers of cake packed with marshmallow filling melted the hearts of people around the world including North Koreans after they spread in the isolated country through the inter-Korean industrial park in Gaeseong. Food makers frown at Lotte’s copycat behaviorĬhoco Pie has been a legendary snack for nearly 40 years since Orion created it in 1974. It’s assumed in Korea that the Orion company invented this type of treat. There is a lot of pride taken in this confectionery. Everyone’s crazy about Choco Pies in Korea. This month, an art exhibition called The Choco Pie-ization of North Korea opened in New York, exploring the symbolism of the treat.