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Burry's

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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Herostratus (talk | contribs) at 04:31, 22 November 2015 (if its in the past, who's paying for their web site to remain up? OTOH, they don't appear to be making products anymore... I can't figure out what they do now, actually... so I left the product list in the past tense...). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Burry's is a popular manufacturer of cookies and crackers established in 1936 based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Some of their popular snacks were:

  • Scooter Pie
  • Gaucho peanut butter sandwich cookies
  • Fudge Town chocolate sandwich cookies
  • Mr. Chips chocolate chip cookies

In the late 1960s and perhaps earlier, they manufactured Girl Scout Cookies including the thin mints, while the Gaucho peanut butter sandwich cookie produced by Burry was the same cookie marketed by the Girl Scouts. Gauchos came in a coarse cardstock box that was covered in a wax-coated paper label. These cookies had a small hole in the oatmeal wafer top that allowed any excess peanut butter filling to escape during production, thereby avoiding the filling being pushed out between the cookie layer sides.

A small retail store offered baked-that-day but broken/defective cookies in bulk for tremendous discounts. A shopping-bag-size bag of thin mints cost $1.00.

The Scooter Pie consisted of two large round graham cracker cookies with a thick layer of marshmallow between and coated with chocolate, similar to the Moon Pie or choco pie.

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