When you say “I got the munchies,” what images pop into your head? Doritos, Oreos, Cherry Garcia, and every Little Debbie pastry your parents denied you as a kid?
While the trend here in the U.S. in recent years has been eating healthier and laying off the sugar (or cutting out gluten, whatever that means), it’s hard to deny that our munchies are the best form of escapism when we need it. But these snack foods and brands just didn’t appear overnight, so where did they all get their start?
We’ve went back and traced the birth of some of America’s all-time favorite snack foods and their origins, so now you can drop some interesting facts the next time you smoke up with your friends.
