Anyone who’s ever walked down the cookie aisle in the grocery store knows just how overwhelming it can be. There’s literally a cookie for every taste. Perhaps one of the most popular cookies on the shelf is Pepperidge Farm Milanos. The flaky, buttery cookies — held together by a thin layer of the creamiest, richest chocolate — are a favorite among Americans. How the beloved dessert came to be is a bit of a surprise, because it wasn’t even planned. In fact, the birth of Milanos happened because of a shipping mishap back in the 1950s. It all started in 1957 when Pepperidge Farm was experimenting with a cookie called the "Naples.” They were open-faced with a layer of chocolate……...which was fine until Pepperidge Farm started shipping them to stores in the South. The cookies weren't made to stand up to the hot Southern heat and the chocolate began melting. As a solution, Pepperidge Farm decided to put another cookie on top of the chocolate layer to keep it from getting messy. Thus, the sandwich cookie lining the shelves of grocery stores that we now all know and love as a Milano was born.
