What makes our workplace great is passion and personality. Our community of over 2,683 employees is based across Canada, with our head office in Toronto. We are a business that has set ambitious targets for growth, with around $250 million being invested into our Ontario-based manufacturing facilities in the last few years alone we are leading marketing campaigns with innovations such as Cadbury Dark Milk and Oreo flavours, including Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark. Our brands are iconic, occupying many of the number one, two or three spots across their categories and our makers and bakers have the enviable job of inventing and making chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy across our iconic Ontario manufacturing facilities and sites. Still.We are one of the largest snacking companies in Canada with delicious household favourites including Cadbury, Oreo, Christie and Maynards.
#PEEK FREANS NICE COOKIES DISCONTINUED FULL#
And – YES! EUREKA! They are the same (or at least a close enough facsimile)! Although I have to admit, at 3 points per 5 biscuits (one full row) they’re maybe not going to top my treat list while I’m still on Weight Watchers. I have googled repeatedly and can’t find them…was it Peek Freans? Or Dare? Mr. (But seriously, if you remember who made the ones we ate back in the 70s, please let me know. That’s what they were called! But I don’t think the ones we snacked on in Oakville, Ontario in the 70s were made by KHONG GUAN and imported from Singapore. The things you can buy at the dollar store, I tell ya!Īnyway, so there I am gazing at the neon fruit puddings and Hello Kitty fruit pretzels when I see it…staring me in the face!Īnd it hits me. They’re kind of like pretzels, dipped in (what I think is) strawberry yogurt. These fruit puddings look more like little tubs of paint, to me, and they are, disturbingly, not refrigerated.Īnd then there’s this weird treat from Japan that my daughter got in a birthday party loot bag once: Now, it’s not like I don’t like Asia in general or Asian food in particular, but I do find Asian snack food, well, peculiar. So what prompted me to be scanning the contents of the shelves in the Asian snack food section of our local Real Canadian Superstore I’ll never know. I gave up hope of ever finding them again, although I couldn’t help tossing a half-hopeful, half-wistful glance up at the shelves in the cookie aisle on grocery day.
You could snap off the pieces just like a stoned wheat thin. Nope, not French Cremes, and no, not those Cinnamon Danish cookies either."įrustrated, I began to feel like maybe I’d imagined those cracker-like cookies, kind of like a stoned wheat thin, minus the wheat and salt, but with raisins baked right in. I’d labouriously explain to people: "they were like crackers, sort of, with raisins baked right inside. I’ll give the guy credit, he totally remembered them and would sit and scratch his head in nostalgic frustration along with me as we tried to pick our way through the accumulated minutiae of a lifetime’s worth of thoughts and memories, pulling at the cobwebs like so many fishing lines, only to have them come away in our hands empty, no name attached. Every now and then it would hit me and I’d think, "boy, I wish I knew where to get some of those cookies with raisins in them", and I’d ask someone if they could remember them as well. For years and years now (seriously, like ten years) I’ve been wandering grocery store aisles looking for my favourite old cookie that I remember from childhood.
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