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Background information
The recipe for Maryland Cookies was brought to the UK from the USA in 1956. It is now the UK's best selling cookie.
Flavours
The flavours available for Maryland Cookies are:
- Chocolate Chip.
- Double Chocolate
- Chocolate Chip & Hazelnut
- Chocolate Chip & Coconut
- Fudge Brownie
- Peanut Toffee Crunch
Package/Wrapping
A normal sized box is about 22.5 x 5.5 x 6.0 cm. The packaging claims that Maryland Cookies are "The ORIGINAL Cookie." The cookies are packaged in a cellophane wrapper.
Trivia
Over 12 billion Maryland Cookies are sold worldwide each year. This is enough cookies to stretch right across America, from the Pacific, through the state of Maryland, to the Atlantic Ocean.
There is an average of 18.863 cookies in a normal box.
In 1982, a small importer of Maryland Cookies in Norway was convicted for smuggling drugs inside the cookie boxes. The drugs were put together with the cookies and resealed with a new cellophane coating to prevent police dogs from finding them.
References
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