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Store Bought Cookies List for September 15th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have here a list.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I know people love a list. Well, that's what I'm told.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll find out.
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  Speaker 2: It's Radio From Hell with another list. Because people love
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  Speaker 2: a good list.
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  Speaker 3: X96. If the list doesn't last long enough, I also
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  Speaker 3: have a story about New Zealand's oldest water skier.
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  Speaker 2: People love a story about New Zealand's oldest water skier.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean old water skiers. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as good as a water-skiing squirrel. No.
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  Speaker 3: But the list I have here is the nine favorite
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  Speaker 3: store-bought cookies that pastry chefs like. That pastry chefs like.
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  Speaker 3: People who make cookies and pastries and so forth. If
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  Speaker 3: you have to have a store-bought cookie.
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  Speaker 1: These are the ones that they say they like.
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  Speaker 2: These are experts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Many of these pastry chefs, they say, pull inspiration from
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  Speaker 3: the textures and flavors of of their favorite store-bought cookies,
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  Speaker 3: even serving grown-up or modernized versions of them at their restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: But although pastry chefs might be capable of improving on
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  Speaker 3: mass-produced cookies, they do have a soft spot for the
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  Speaker 3: original thing. Here are nine supermarket cookies that they keep
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  Speaker 3: stocked in their pantries for a quick treat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Do they keep all nine of them in their
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  Speaker 2: pantries at the same time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. It reminds me that Gina.
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  Speaker 3: Was talking the other day about, and I forget what
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  Speaker 3: the restaurant was, But the restaurant, they had Oreos that
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  Speaker 3: they soaked in red wine. And they were, so you'd
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  Speaker 3: soak it in red wine and then kind of let
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  Speaker 3: it dry out a little bit. And it was surprisingly delicious.
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  Speaker 3: I have to try that again. But here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, and these are not in order of preference,
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  Speaker 3: just numbers. Keebler Coconut Dreams.
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  Speaker 2: Keebler Coconut Dreams.
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  Speaker 3: These are very good. They are very much like Samoas,
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  Speaker 3: the Girl Scout cookie, the Samoas.
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  Speaker 1: I like those.
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  Speaker 3: They're that kind of chewy, and I've had them before.
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  Speaker 3: They've been around for quite a while. They're shortbread cookies
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  Speaker 3: coated in caramel and toasted coconut with a milk chocolate
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  Speaker 3: fudge drizzle.
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  Speaker 2: I can only have like two or three of those.
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  Speaker 2: It's so rich. I get sick of it really fast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are. They're very good. More for me.
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  Speaker 3: Several pastry shifts say we really like those. Here's another
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  Speaker 3: one that I've had, and they are good. Tate's Walnut
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  Speaker 3: Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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  Speaker 2: Walnut Chocolate Chip.
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  Speaker 3: They're the only cookies that still taste the same to
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  Speaker 3: me after all these years, says a pastry chef from
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  Speaker 3: the pastry box in New York.
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  Speaker 1: The texture in the chocolate never fails.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure pastry chefs allergic to nuts would disagree.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another one that you would.
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  Speaker 1: Nabisco Pinwheels. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. I always pack pinwheels in my cooler for family
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  Speaker 3: camping trips. They're soft chocolate cookies topped with way too
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  Speaker 3: much marshmallow and dipped in chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like a s'more in a cookie. Kind of, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of.
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  Speaker 3: They're actually very much akin to a cookie that we
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  Speaker 3: don't have here in the West, Malamar. The Malamars, which
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  Speaker 3: is kind of a chocolate wafer.
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  Speaker 2: What was the cookie you had in the studio a
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  Speaker 2: couple weeks back? It kind of looks like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like a Malamar?
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  Speaker 2: No, you guys, it doesn't matter. I was hoping you
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  Speaker 2: would remember.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I don't remember what I did 20 minutes ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: And apparently I watched the entire season of Task and
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  Speaker 3: I've forgotten it. Next one on the list. These are
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  Speaker 3: very good. But these I can't eat very many of
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  Speaker 3: because I get that sugar-sweet-six feeling in my stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Mother's Circus Animal Cookies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh!
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  Speaker 1: I love those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love those, too. Yeah, they're very good with milk,
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  Speaker 3: but they're really sweet. Sarah Santa is the co-founder of
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  Speaker 3: Heaps Ice Cream and Pies and Thighs in Brooklyn, and
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  Speaker 3: she said these crunchy, yogurt-y, frosting, crumbly, slightly orange-scented animal
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  Speaker 3: cracker and crunchy sprinklers are a combination I never get
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  Speaker 3: sick of.
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  Speaker 2: They leave a film on your hands if you eat
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them, too. I remember that as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I can only eat you know, four or five of them.
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  Speaker 2: I have like a texture thing with my hands. If
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  Speaker 2: I have like, you know, any like film left of food,
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  Speaker 2: it drives me insane. Chopsticks.
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  Speaker 1: Chop. Ooh, not. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Chopsticks and cookies. Chopsticks.
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  Speaker 1: Or Cheetos or whatever. Chopsticks are perfect for Cheetos. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When I eat Doritos, which do the same thing, my
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  Speaker 2: wife makes fun of me because I, uh, I bird it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I take the bag and I pour
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  Speaker 2: it directly in my mouth. Not because I'm a glutton,
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  Speaker 2: but because I'm trying to avoid the film on my hands.
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  Speaker 3: And so what you end up with is crumbs and
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  Speaker 3: pieces of Dorito all over your face and your shirt.
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  Speaker 2: It's not on my hands, though, and that's what I
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  Speaker 2: care more about.
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  Speaker 3: The next one on the list, Keebler's Pecan Sandies. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: Pecan Sandies. My favorite store-bought cookies are Pecan Sandies, said
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  Speaker 3: Amanda Perdomo, who is the pastry chef. chef at Junior
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  Speaker 3: & Son in Brooklyn. I'm obsessed with the mouthfeel and
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  Speaker 3: the chew. And they're very good.
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  Speaker 2: Pecan Sandies are great.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one of Gina's favorites. The Biscoff. Lotus Biscoff cookie.
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  Speaker 3: I can never resist a Biscoff cookie, says Sophia Scheinlein.
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  Speaker 3: She's the corporate pastry chef for JF Restaurants. She said
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  Speaker 3: they're wonderful, but man, if you crush them into a
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  Speaker 3: cheesecake crust out of them, they're just great. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of pastry chefs are using them for different things.
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  Speaker 1: Walker's shortbread is the next one on the list. Always good.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Fudge stripe shortbread, also quite good. That's a Keebler, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And then finally, Oreos. Now, I'm just, I think to
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  Speaker 3: me Oreos are just kind of like.
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  Speaker 2: They're fine. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a texter.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a baker for 17 years.
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  Speaker 3: Over the years, my various co-workers and I will absolutely
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  Speaker 3: devour Oreos.
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  Speaker 1: Really? We always need to try the new ones.
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  Speaker 2: I love an Oreo ice cream. Oreo ice cream is
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  Speaker 2: some of the best ice cream out there. But Oreos
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  Speaker 2: by themselves, not really my thing. Tim Tams is what
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to think of.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I've had, yeah. Tim Tams.
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  Speaker 2: Tim Tams. Those are very good. Those were in the
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  Speaker 2: studio a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of weeks ago. Yeah, we had those. Tim Tams, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And those peanut butter bars.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Peanut butter and chocolate. That's one of my favorite desserts
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: These peanut butter bars, though, they were a little.
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  Speaker 2: waxy.
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  Speaker 1: The chocolate was a little waxy.
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  Speaker 2: You guys had peanut butter bars?
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  Speaker 1: They were Little Debbie's. Little Debbie's.
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  Speaker 3: So this is just to get us all ready for
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  Speaker 3: the Donut Critics coming up today. Ben will be here
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  Speaker 3: with and you know what?
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  Speaker 1: He's bringing actual donuts today. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Donuts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean like donuts.
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  Speaker 3: Not cookies or biscuits or you know Oh.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be interesting. Or a slushie, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to Biscoffs, do you guys eat those outside
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  Speaker 2: of a flight? I feel like I only have those
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  Speaker 2: on planes.
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  Speaker 3: We've got them at home to crush on and put
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  Speaker 3: on different things.
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  Speaker 2: They're good with coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we rarely eat them just straight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that banana pudding, that nana pudding that I got
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  Speaker 3: at CJ's Ribs, which was excellent, had a Biscoff. had
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  Speaker 3: Biscoff crumbled up in it and a Biscoff cookie stuck
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  Speaker 3: on the top of it.
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  Speaker 1: Who put Biscoff in my nana pudding? Much better than
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  Speaker 1: Nilla Wafers. Gentlemen. All right.