Yes Yes Cookies, Pizzarias, And Maple Nut Goodies: Gimme Back My Snack Bullets

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00:00Yes. Yes. Cookies, pizzerias, and maple nut goodies.

00:04Give me back my snack bullets.

00:06One of my first food memories involved a coconut and caramel-based treat

00:10my neighbor called a Yes Yes Cookie.

00:12It covered all the bases as far as I was concerned.

00:15Sweet, crunchy, bite-sized, and available.

00:18The other cookies on the shelves were okay, but the Yes Yes Cookies took me to Flavortown.

00:24A few years down the road, however, there were no more Yes Yes Cookies to be found.

00:28In fact, many people accused me of making the whole thing up.

00:32They weren't always wrong.

00:34A more savory snack showed up in the 80s, flour-based chips called pizzerias.

00:39Pizzerias had an intoxicating blend of Italian spices and a powdered tomato seasoning.

00:44These chips hit differently than the usual corn-based chips we usually got.

00:49Pizza-flavored anything was already a rare treat, so these became my default setting.

00:55Once again, the powers-that-be decided to take a beautiful snack away from me.

00:59The last to go was a complicated candy called maple nut goodies.

01:04There were ground peanuts mixed with caramel, with a maple-flavored shell.

01:09They usually hung out at the Candy Island and department stores.

01:12I could usually find a bagged version at a dollar store, but no more.

01:17In a world of circus peanuts and candy corn, I want to be a screaming yellow zonker.