By Ben Steverman -
2012-07-18T13:27:07Z
Photograph by David Bishop Inc./Getty Images
Fig Newtons
People have been putting figs in pastry dough for thousands of years. Ask the Greeks. In 1891, the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named its new, mass-produced fig cookies after the nearby town of Newton. These days, Newtons -- Nabisco, the snack's current owner, recently dropped "Fig" from the label because it is introducing new flavors -- are a favorite of long-distance bike riders, who find them an easy-to-eat form of energy while on two wheels.
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