Introducing Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story

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Nov 6, 202545:12Arts

Meet Wally Amos. He founded the ubiquitous Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies in 1975, turning the brand into an overnight sensation and himself into a pop-culture fixture in the 1970s and 1980s. But there’s a darker sid...

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