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Delta’s Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love.

Serious Eats traces how Lotus Bakeries' Biscoff, a Belgian speculoos cookie long eaten with coffee, became an American air-travel fixture after a 1980s peanut shortage pushed Delta to serve it as a temporary peanut substitute in 1986, why it works so well at altitude, and how it grew into a grocery staple and global brand.

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