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It should no longer come as a surprise when I see them — the stacks of crinkly plastic-wrapped miniature fruit pies and chocolate pastries, all stamped with a blue logo, piled in a wire rack at pretty much any gas station or convenience store along the Northeast roads on which I grew up driving.
I spent my childhood in Pennsylvania and now live in New York, so I have more than a quarter-century’s experience with these stores and their typical merchandise. In fact, I can picture it in my head — the standard Tastykake shelf, almost always located just inside the doors or sometimes near the cash register.
Despite the fact that Tastykakes have become a staple of my convenience store-shopping life, it never fails to give me pause when I walk into a Peanut Butter Kandy Kake-stocking establishment and immediately feel my breath catch in my chest.
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