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Yes Yes Cookies, Pizzarias, And Maple Nut Goodies: Gimme Back My Snack Bullets
Proving Ground
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7/30/2024
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Yes. Yes. Cookies, pizzerias, and maple nut goodies.
00:04
Give me back my snack bullets.
00:06
One of my first food memories involved a coconut and caramel-based treat
00:10
my neighbor called a Yes Yes Cookie.
00:12
It covered all the bases as far as I was concerned.
00:15
Sweet, crunchy, bite-sized, and available.
00:18
The other cookies on the shelves were okay, but the Yes Yes Cookies took me to Flavortown.
00:24
A few years down the road, however, there were no more Yes Yes Cookies to be found.
00:28
In fact, many people accused me of making the whole thing up.
00:32
They weren't always wrong.
00:34
A more savory snack showed up in the 80s, flour-based chips called pizzerias.
00:39
Pizzerias had an intoxicating blend of Italian spices and a powdered tomato seasoning.
00:44
These chips hit differently than the usual corn-based chips we usually got.
00:49
Pizza-flavored anything was already a rare treat, so these became my default setting.
00:55
Once again, the powers-that-be decided to take a beautiful snack away from me.
00:59
The last to go was a complicated candy called maple nut goodies.
01:04
There were ground peanuts mixed with caramel, with a maple-flavored shell.
01:09
They usually hung out at the Candy Island and department stores.
01:12
I could usually find a bagged version at a dollar store, but no more.
01:17
In a world of circus peanuts and candy corn, I want to be a screaming yellow zonker.
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