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Wednesday Outtakes: Brach's et al

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Dec 25, 2024
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In the column about Christmas traditions, I took out this:

For many years I provided a few pounds of peppermint bark, one of the great candies of Western Civilization. It is held back from the rest of the year to keep it special. I stopped buying it because Trader Joe’s came out with a Peppermint Pretzel: it provided a nominal peppermint zing without the…

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