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Oh, look, honey, we got it in two.

For an NPR crowd, I don't know that they'll clear that bar.

It's true.

All right, here, Emily, is your last quote.

Guys, it's just Chex Mix.

That was a writer in Bloomberg News talking about how something new is just really the same old thing, proving America has lost its genius when it comes to creating new what?

Well, what is Chex Mix?

It's a snack?

It is snacks, yes.

Oh my God.

America is the snack capital of the world, but apparently we have lost our sense of innovation and creativity.

It's left us dreaming of the days when you'd be at the store and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, sour cream and onion?

Bloomberg says we're in a crisis after the winner of this year's Powerhouse Snack Award, there is one, was Hershey's Dot Snack Mix, a blend of pretzels, corn cereal, and pita chips and garlic rye chips.

In other words, yeah, it's just Chex Mix.

They're just recycling old snacks and new packaging.

This cannot stand.

We need a Manhattan Project but for Fritos.

You know it was getting bad when we all allowed flaming hot to be a flavor?

Yeah.

Because neither one of those words is a flavor.