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Sticky memories and mail-order candy
A personal history of salt water taffy
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
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The snacks that hate each other
The century-long feud between Hershey's Chocolate and Hershey's Ice Cream, two companies established in the same place in the same year
3
The snack to eat on a Chilean beach
A brief introduction to cuchuflí
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
The snacks worth smuggling
Dangerous chocolates, cheeky cheese, and other treats to sneak across the border
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
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The American snack for a British king
How FDR introduced King George VI to hot dogs and created a media spectacle
April 2023
The 19th-most popular snack in the Netherlands
A brief history of Sitostick
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
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The snacks "invented" by a chatbot
In which we test the limits of AI by asking for new recipes
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
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The sweet, sticky mystery of the bear-shaped bottle
A brief history of those iconic honey containers
3
The delicious (?) snacks of 1923
A stroll through the archives from 100 years ago
The delicious (?) snacks of 1923
A stroll through the archives from 100 years ago
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
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The snack that shows "the Indian Concept of Crunch"
A brief history of Bombay Mix
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
March 2023
Pizza rolls and the meaning of midcentury food
How a snacktime staple embodies a specific cultural moment
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Doug Mack / Snack Stack
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