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How Does A Cookie Crumble
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Feb 2, 2023
Ever wonder where the cookie came from? We give you the bite-size cookie history on today's show and share some of our favorites. #cookie #history #favoritecookies All interviews are for informational purposes only and are educational in nature. Any health advice discussed in this show/podcast is not intended to treat disease and should be discussed with your doctor prior to implementing. 📌 Subscribe to Caren's Channel: https://YouTube.com/@carenglasser 📌 Subscribe to Rob's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@officialrobglasser Watch all shows on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3VStXU3 Follow Caren on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow Caren on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Check out the AlteredUniverseLive store to pick up some cool swag: https://www.altereduniverse.live/shop Don't forget to download a free copy of our eBook "Finding Your Passion": http://www.mindingyourmentalhealth.com
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name is Rob you can call her Karen I
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call her mom and today we have a
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delicious video all about the history of
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cookies so without further Ado let's do
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it
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[Music]
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all right guys so the American Heritage
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dictionary defines cookie or plural
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cookies as a small usually flat and
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crisp cake made from sweet and dough
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however if you guys know the history of
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cookies there's a lot more to that now
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I'm pulling a lot of my info not just
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from what I got here but from the show
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food that built America from History
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Channel and they did an entire episode
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an hour-long episode on cookies now
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again as much hatred has I have against
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business you guys probably wouldn't be
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surprised to hear that places like
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Nabisco they actually stole other
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people's recipes for things like the
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Oreo the chocolate chip cookie and more
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however you have companies like Toll
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House owned by Nestle that actually was
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made by a lady who ran an end and fun
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fact from our calendar I learned that
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Toll House came from a name of a bread
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and breakfast and she created by
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accident the Toll House cookie so
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depending on what history you want to
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think about you got the perfume actually
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made cookies
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or the person who didn't and made a
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crapload of money off of them
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that being said
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how does that happen to Nabisco I mean
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you know Oreos Chips Ahoy all that stuff
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were great cookies
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but the history of the cookie is
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actually pretty short and sweet no pun
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intended according to culinary
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historians cookie evolved from test
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cakes that were used to test oven
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temperature did you know this small
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amounts of cake batter were dropped into
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pans to test the temperature before you
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bake the cake
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now if you want to go back even further
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they have proof that places like Persia
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or what was Persia now Iraq
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actually made the first cookies because
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they were looking for something easy to
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make and once again in order to bake
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their flatbreads because they were the
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ones who also made the first kind of
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pizza they would drop little bits of
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dough but they realized afterwards this
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is actually tasty so you can go all the
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way back to BC or ad and they made the
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first cookie but how cool is that that
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is really cool it's a cooking hack to
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make sure your temperature was right
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and you made a dessert out of your other
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dessert so it was it was basically I
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love that I love that that's awesome
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I just thought that was great so 7th
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Century Persia was the one and then
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afterwards it went out through Europe
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um brought over from Persian to Spain
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and lo and behold you have that
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um by the 14th century cookies were
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common not actually in the United States
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yet in North America but strictly in
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Europe which makes a lot of sense right
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because the Middle East and Europe are
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right next to each other so it's not
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surprising that cookies traveled I don't
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know via camel that's not that's
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probably rude I'm sorry but being
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whatever from one place to the other I
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did not mean that to be something bad
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but you know by the 1800s cookie recipes
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were actually being published but they
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were called small cakes
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okay the word cookie comes from the
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Dutch word kocha which means surprise
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surprise little cake little cake okay
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that makes sense yep well maybe but yeah
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so you know basically they were
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published as small cakes which I guess
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in a way cookies are small cakes but you
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know
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now what we call cookies are actually
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not necessarily the word for cookie our
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word for cookie is equivalent to and I'm
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going to give you some countries the
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biscuit in the UK
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and Australia
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galletas in Spain Kells in Germany and
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biscotti or Amaretti in Italy so think
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about the differences of that not
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specifically something like a cookie
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versus a biscotti I know that is a very
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different texture and a very different
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cookie
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but it's still a cook it's still hard
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and you
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you take a bite
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I think of when you say that maybe well
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for me the word biscuit is multiple
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things it's kind of a general term so
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when I think biscuit I think of like the
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breakfast biscuits yeah right right but
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one of the boxes that I got for myself
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once that had a UK treats all of their
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cookies or a wrap like that and they
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actually taste like our cookies so for
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them the word biscuit has become
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synonymous with sweet not savory
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now let's jump to our neck of the woods
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for the U.S cookies continued their
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journey and eventually reached us the
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1600s uh during English and Dutch
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settlements so obviously when the
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pilgrims came over Columbus all those
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guys that's when you started getting
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that kind of thing throughout the 19th
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century however most cookies were baked
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at home not as anything more than just a
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one-solve thing
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because the high cost of sugar right
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right this was obviously before you had
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companies like Nabisco like Hostess they
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literally were made strictly for
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you know at home fun most cookbooks had
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recipes for macarons jumbles or
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gingerbread
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you got more more variety as the 1900s
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went through as it did and most of that
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is probably personal uh Cultural Family
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to family uh you know a lot of cookies
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from what I learned from the show were
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people's home bread recipes for instance
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the lady who basically took her Hostess
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when her husband died her cakes and
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cookies were her recipes for Hostess so
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like the donuts she made and the pound
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cake she made it wasn't anything
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particular other than her personal
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recipe is it the same recipe now that
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they use
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you know they say and this is kind of
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where and this goes back to the business
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why you buy type of thing
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they write that as their slogan and
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while many of them probably use I don't
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know 85 90 of it
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due to the fact that you have to get
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stuff out out the door much quicker a
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lot of things are not
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original slash natural as they once were
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but something like Toll House I know
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especially with their cookie dough and
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stuff like that they do make an effort
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to make sure that the cookies you're
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making or buying are
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you know whereas an Oreo that you got
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the stamp on it but the way they process
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it now is probably much different than
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they did
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so was it was it a particular kind of
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cookie that goes way back like the
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chocolate chip cookie I know Toll House
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is a chocolate chip cookie so to me from
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what I'm looking at it seems something
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like the sugar cookie or the gingerbread
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and why is that because herbs and spices
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were easy to come by
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sugar however was still expensive so you
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had to kind of pick and choose now
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macaron I'm surprised they put on here
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as an original recipe because nowadays
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that is a very specifically French
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Patisserie sweet but it's also not
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something that anybody can do macarons
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are very hard to make if you're talking
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about legitimate macarons not
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you know but there are already there are
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recipes out there there are recipes for
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it but the average Joe recipe is
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definitely not what a French Patisserie
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would call a macaron
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because of the higher quality right um
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but I think to enter I think it's going
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to be something that's a simple cookie
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now chocolate again for the longest time
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and and this is just kind of an offshoot
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of this topic chocolate was also very
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hard to come by because the cocoa bean
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in places like South America and places
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like Africa
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nobody was very keen on giving us this
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stuff for a while because we weren't
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very nice to people for a long time so
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importing this stuff was very difficult
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to do
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and that leads you to the recipes you do
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get now I'm not sure where the
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gingerbread comes in because I know
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that's a very European cookie as well uh
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Denmark's what you know the the whole
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that because it's a very holiday cookie
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the gingerbread coincides with things
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like Christmas things like gingerbread
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house you would make gingerbread houses
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out of the ginger I think to answer your
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question fully it's really where you
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live is probably the cookie you're gonna
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eat the most of okay
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you know
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um next up 90 of Home Bakers bake
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cookies making them the most commonly
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baked good half of those baked good
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cookies are chocolate chip so as far as
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production wise goes yes chocolate chip
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is going to be the number one made not
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only from home but also this is Soldier
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now do you know the two the okay the
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cookie is the official state baked good
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for two states can you guess which state
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those are
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California I don't know so Massachusetts
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and Pennsylvania
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um are the Tour the State cookie uh is
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the chocolate chip cookie that was
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invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in
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1930 at the Toll House Inn in
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Massachusetts Mrs Wakefield told the
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recipe to Nestle who began Manufacturing
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in 1939 so there you go that's the fun
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fact of the day now beyond that you have
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different kinds of other things you have
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things like whoopie pies you have m m
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cookies you have brownie cookies
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otherwise called the Berkey you have the
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turkey which is the cheesecake cookie
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this is all things that have come from
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um
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ideas that people came across
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more so by accident
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but the one I really want to talk about
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the article that I sent you over from um
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from the nice news
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a lady with Down Syndrome by the name of
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Colette DeVito holds her own bakery
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called coletti's cookies and her main
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goal of this is to hire people with
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disabilities
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to give them work I love it um she is
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now I'm trying to think about how much
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money she's making but she makes a lot
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of money off of this from making
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homemade cookies but what she says in
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the article basically is that making
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cookies is kind of the way to take her
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mind off of the thing she's been taking
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baking classes she was a kid and boom
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she now has this and I love the nice
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news if you want something because for
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me I can't read the news but if you want
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a good news thing go to nice news they
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have all the happy articles that you can
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read oh that's wonderful it's a great
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it's a great little website there but um
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yeah the cookie uh thing it's not a long
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history but it's a pretty interesting
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one to do and now obviously my favorite
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part it's the stuff that I want to have
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at home so what are you buying me today
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now
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okay so first we found some favorite
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easy cake mix cookies so very similar to
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what you were just talking about we take
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the cake mix you know that the back in
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the day and they would test it so this
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actually fits in really great with the
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the the conversation that we were just
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having and if you're just tuning in to
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us for the first time go ahead and take
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your camera and you can scan this and it
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will literally take you over to the
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product right there it's on Amazon
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another one that we thought would be
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kind of fun is 100 cookies the baking
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book for every kitchen classic cookies
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novel treats brownies bars you name it
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it's in this book 100 cookies I'm
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curious for our listeners that are
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tuning in right now and we have quite a
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few what's your favorite cookie let us
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know what your favorite cookie is in the
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chat we'd love to know the other one
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that I picked that I thought was kind of
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fun cookie a love story
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and these these are like fun facts and
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delicious stories and things of that
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nature love that and then we also have
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your favorite cookies Rob and that is
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Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies my
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favorite as well these are so delicious
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they're just butter though right it's
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just full of butter they are so good we
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also have the Barnett chocolate cookies
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that's a birthday gift basket so if
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you're looking for a gift for the loved
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ones in your life this might be
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absolutely perfect if you don't eat it
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first before you send it off and then
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finally I know you love this too the
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Oreo original Oreo golden Chips Ahoy
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Nutter Butters all these wonderful Oreos
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if you're an Oreo cookie freak this is
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for you now Rob I showed you this before
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we went live because this is actually my
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favorite for those of you listen
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wouldn't you like to get cookies every
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month sent to you like chocolate chip
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cookie of the month club I mean really
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how cool is this and this particular
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company says that each month you're
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going to receive a eight freshly baked
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cookies and that most ones you're going
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to receive basically delicious chocolate
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chip cookies soft chewy crispy you name
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it traditional but with a tryst and
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every so often they say they're going to
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send you some cookies that are not
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chocolate chip but mostly it's a
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chocolate chip cookie of the month club
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and I know you're just salivating right
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now you're looking at this saying okay
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Mom this is something we need right yes
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we do we do I know I know
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um maybe we'll just have to talk about
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that cookies are wonderful we love
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cookies
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um again if you're tuning in and you'd
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like to let us know whether it's on
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replay or live it doesn't matter just
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let us know what what your favorite
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cookies are because inquiring minds want
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to know Krista says that her favorite
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chewy chocolate chip cookies are the
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best but she does love the Oreos too
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mostly in her ice cream oh yes because
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you can always take cookies that's kind
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of like what our title is how does the
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cookie crumble so you could crumble
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those Oreos and stick them into your ice
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cream I love that
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any last thoughts Rob before we say
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goodbye to everyone well I will give you
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my number one favorite cookie of all
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time it is the Keebler m m cookies
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probably the best cookie ever it's a
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hard talk to your cookie with M M's in
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there whoever decided to put those two
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things together you are the best thank
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you so I'm a Girl Scout cookie girl so I
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love thin mint cookies I mean I am and
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we're just right now buying cookies
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right girl scouts are selling their
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cookies right now so of course I had I
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had to buy because I just want to you
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know have cookies so I bought boxes of
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thin mints to put in the freezer because
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there's nothing better than thin mint
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cookies that have been frozen and then
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Krista can crumble them and put them
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right on her ice cream as well but
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cookies and cream but with thin mints
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delicious delicious and uh just just as
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a need to know maybe you don't need to
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know they just came out with a new
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cookie Girl Scouts they're raspberry
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thins they look like Thin Mints but
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they're not they look like them they're
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chocolate covered they have a little
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raspberry crisp cookie inside of them
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and oh my gosh they are apps oh and
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samoas you're a Samoa girl
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yes delicious delicious all right guys
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we're happy that you spent time with us
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today we know that you have a choice and
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we are grateful that you chose to spend
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it with us today go out give somebody an
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awesome day Rob we'll see you next week
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have a great day everyone
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