Taste Test – Famous Amos Bite Size Cookies with Belgian Chocolate

The Famous Amos story began in 1975 at a bakery on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Inspired by a family recipe, founder Wally Amos perfected his chocolate chip cookie. Their homemade signature helped them gain fame just by word of mouth. Alex and I both enjoy chocolate chip cookies and have sampled these tiny little nuggets several times. They are a good tasting standard cookie and the chocolate chips are actually very good. We would rank them somewhere between standard mass produced supermarket cookies and more refined artisan chocolate chip cookies.

Bastogne Historical Center – Bastogne, Belgium

Bastogne is located in the Belgian Ardennes, in the east of the province of Luxembourg,. The city is 12 km (7.5 mi) away from the Luxembourg border. It is the 9th largest municipality in Belgium and the third largest in the province. The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe. The Germans achieved a total surprise attack on the morning of December 16, 1944, due to a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance due to bad weather. Allied forces in Bastogne were surrounded by the Germans and on the brink of total destruction until on December 26 the lead element of Patton’s U.S. Third Army reached Bastogne from the south, ending the siege. The Bastogne Historical Center and War Museum gives an overview of the causes and consequences of World War II with emphasis on the Battle of the Bulge.

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