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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

Yeah, exactly.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

So they went to the Heckman Biscuit Company, which was conveniently also in Michigan.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

They had been around selling Dutch cookies since the beginning of the late 19th century, door to door.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And by the 1960s, when this is happening, their division of the United Biscuit Company of America, which would eventually become Keebler in 66, right there in Grand Rapids, they had a great modern industrial bakery.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And it was a really sort of a great partnership out of the gate.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

Grand Rapids, by the way, just a little personal aside, is where I learned that I actually love frog legs.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

Oh, really?

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

There was this dinner theater in Grand Rapids that my family used to go to when I was growing up in Toledo.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

The frog leg theater?

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

On their buffet, they had frog legs.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And I tried them once, and I was like, oh, my God, these are amazing.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

I don't think I would eat one now, but when I was like 8, 9, 10, I would eat some frog legs.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

I don't know where it was, buddy, but I tried frog legs on a buffet in the 1970s or early 80s.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

Yeah, and I thought, hey, this tastes like chicken.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

It's the weird skin that really throws it off, though.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

These were fried, so I don't remember the skin.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And this is a very distant memory.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

But I'm with you.