
Dunk-a-roos are a pack of cookies and frosting produced by Betty Crocker. In a single tray, one side contains small cookies and the other side has vanilla or chocolate frosting. The cookies may be dipped or “dunked” (as the name DUNK-a-roos implies) into the frosting if desired. The treat made it’s debut in the early 1990.
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If you had Dunkaroos, you had the most valuable item for lunch trades. You could get an entire Lunchable from a kid for just three Dunkaroo cookies. I remember bringing only one pack of Dunkaroos for lunch knowing I’d feast off lunch trades alone!
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Blasted Dunkaroos! In my quest to be king of lunch time, my Gushers were no match for you!
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I used to eat the cheese and pretzels packs for lunch. I’d pretend the red spreader stick was a lightsaber and I make the “szwwoooorp zswroooorp” lightsaber sounds while I spread the cheese on the pretzels. Would you rather dip a cookie in some lame frosting or use a beaming lightsaber to burn cheese on a stale pretzel? Boom Shakalaka!
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I was a Dunkaroo beggar! My mom didn’t put the good stuff in my lunch and nobody was trading for homemade potato salad. Always hated when people would give me a Dunkaroo and were super stingy on the frosting!
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They NEVER gave you enough frosting! After one dip, it was all gone! No trade value without the frosting!
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Seems like all 90s kids were instinctively wired to say “WOW, YOU GOT DUNKAROOS!!” when brought to lunch.
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Did you know that this snack is called Dunkaroos because the process of taking the cookie, optionally dipping or “dunking” the cookie into the frosting and the similarity of a Kangaroo jumping and the Kangaroo having a pouch?
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