Fun fact about peppers

Back when my mom was young, when a boy was born into a household, they would hang up peppers in the entrance walkway to announce that it was a boy. Why? Because the Korean word for peppers is 고추 (gochu) and the Korean word for male member is 꼬추 (cochu--say it the way you'd say a Spanish "c" in the middle of a word), which is phonetically very similar... plus, peppers are rather phallic.