Today's bit of trivia - the fig newton is one of two official state cookies up here in Massachusetts (that's right! We have TWO official state cookies because we're just that special up here). The other is the Toll House Cookie, which was invented by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman (being from the next town over, I remember when the Toll House burned down in 1977). She didn't want to take the time to melt the chocolate for a cookie recipe, so just tossed in chopped up chocolate, thus accidentally inventing the chocolate chip cookie. A most delightful invention.