Peanut butter pretzels are one of the better snack inventions to ever grace supermarket shelves. But according to NPR's food blog, The Salt , Trader Joe's is currently twisted like a pretzel over the popular munchies.

Maxim Marketing is suing Trader Joe's over the chain's PB Pretzels. Maxim claims it Marketing invented the peanut butter-filled snack back in the 1980s, and supplied TJs with the top-selling eats for over 25 years. But Trader Joe's reportedly switched to ConAgra Foods to supply its peanut butter pretzels, cutting Maxim out in the process. Maxim is suing both Trader Joe's and ConAgra Foods, "for alleged breach of contract and also alleging the existence of a peanut butter pretzel monopoly."

Thanks to Trader Joe's "peanut butter monopoly," Maxim is out $9 million worth of peanut butter pretzel revenue per year. Since Maxim doesn't own its factories and ConAgra bought up basically all of the peanut butter pretzel factories in the U.S., the ConAgra and Trader Joe's have essentially pushed Maxim out of the business altogether.

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