"I first noticed them at the JollyMart, a block away from my office. There they were, stacked neatly to the right of the register, next to the Japanese gum, the chocolate wafer cookies, the Mozart candies—a pile of what looked like large, plastic-wrapped
Fig Newtons." And so began an urban food mystery—who eats these and, more important, where do they come from?
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