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[wanderingrichard]

I used to be all in for Pecan Sandies mostly because of the short bread flavor and feel but then they changed the formula to something that tastes like floor scrapings from a chemistry lab.
Now I'm a Walkers pure butter short bread man all the way.

Try the ones from Pepperidge Farm instead of Keebler

 

[BriGuy]

Then of course there is the Whippet, first produced in my hometown of Montreal in 1901 - as with the Oreo, there is ritual associated with the eating of a Whippet. The proper method of eating is a rather precise smack of the chocolate coating, creating fractures in the chocolate, chipping and pealing off all the chocolate, eating the chips as you go, sucking the marshmallow off the wafer, then down the hatch with the wafer - nothing could be finer:

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While I love home made cookies, they are, in my opinion, just too good and wholesome to be included in this thread - we're talking junk here (but not junk science).

Cheers

I think the Germans may have had those sooner. I used to love eating them as a kid. Unfortunately, they had an extremely offensive name for them:

https://chocolateclass.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/a-recurrent-phenomenon/