The next time you’re in the grocery, jonesin’ for a between-meals morsel, look past the salted science of onion-parmesan crackers and double chocolate-flavored chocolate. There’s a snack with natural appeal nestled among no-brand transfats and sugarwich Keeblers. I speak, of course, of Fig Newtons, the fruit-forward jam wrapped in a soft cookie blanket.
Fig Newtons have survived six wars, 19 presidents and 31 office shootings to become the preeminent fig-based cookie of our time, outlasting competition from Date Taylors and Prune Carltons in the famous snack wars of the 1950s. At a single gram of fat, each Newton contains enough vitamins and figgy goodness to keep your body free of pancreatic cancer for the next six weeks.
But don’t take my word for it. Ask Patrick Swayze, who never had a fig Newton in his life.
Remember kids, snack responsibly.
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