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This morning I came across a delicious cookie variety I'd never heard of at my local coffee shop: an Anzac biscuit. I asked the barista where the name came from, and she vaguely told me that it had 'something to do with war.' According to Wikipedia, women made Anzac biscuits (not to be confused with ANZAC wafers) for their husbands in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I.
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