Animal Crackers Uncaged

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Animal Crackers Uncaged

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36 minutes

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Oct 4, 2019

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These lightly sweetened cookies played off the popularity of turn-of-the-20th-century traveling circuses – but as circuses have changed, so have animal crackers. Anney and Lauren unpack the history of animal crackers.
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Oct 4, 2019

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Animal Crackers Uncaged

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