{"id":24323,"date":"2017-03-13T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/munchies-the-origin-stories-of-your-favorite-stoner-snacks\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:30:00","slug":"munchies-the-origin-stories-of-your-favorite-stoner-snacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/munchies-the-origin-stories-of-your-favorite-stoner-snacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Munchies: The Origin Stories of Your Favorite Stoner Snacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-F8B5MKeFQ?ecver=1\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you say, &#x201C;I have the munchies,&#x201D; everyone knows what you mean. Whether it&#x2019;s an intense hunger for Doritos, Oreos, Cherry Garcia, or every Little Debbie pastry your parents denied you as a kid, one thing is abundantly clear; you&#x2019;ve got junk food on your mind.<\/p>\n<p>While the trend in the Unites States in recent years has veered towards eating healthier and laying off the sugar (and cutting out things such as gluten) it&#x2019;s hard to deny that our munchies are a form of escapism. However, these snack foods and brands just didn&#x2019;t appear overnight, so where and when did they all get their start?<\/p>\n<p><em>MERRY JANE<\/em> News went back and traced the evolution of some of America&#x2019;s all-time favorite snack foods and their origins, so you&#x2019;ll be prepared to drop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h-F8B5MKeFQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">that knowledge<\/a> the next time you smoke up with your friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERRY JANE News tracks down how munchies came to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3035],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Munchies: The Origin Stories of Your Favorite Stoner Snacks - 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