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Ever since Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Crunch Cookie was featured on her Massachusetts restaurant’s menu in the late 1930s, lovers of sweets have been smitten with the chocolate chip cookie — and 80 years later, Nestlé’s Toll House brand endures as a household name.