You can now get Chocolate Pocky in the UK, but under the Mikado brand name. They don't do the giant ones though... but Cadbury's Fingers would be a good alternative.
Here in Bath, UK, we too have set days for rubbish and recycling collections. In my street, it's all collected on a Thursday. Outside your door, you can put your black sacks full of non-recyclable waste, and your green stack-n-store box containing...
That was me! When Danny posted the tweet, I was working on Wikipedia and so posted the details. WikiNews had it about 5 minutes after it happened. The BBC still haven't got anything online, and even CNN have only got a breaking news banner up on t...