Solution: Oreos

This was meant to be a relatively easy puzzle, especially if teams had solved the prepuzzle and knew to look for Morse code.

Teams first had to notice that there were three varieties of Oreo in the package. There were Double Stuf Oreos, regular Oreos, and Oreo halves with no stuf. These corresponded to dashes, dots, and character breaks respectively in Morse code:

- . - . | . - . | - . - - | . .
. | - | . - | . - . . | . . . | . -
- . | . - . | . . | - . | - - . | . . .

which yielded

CRYSTALSPRING

or, more specifically, the Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir. There's only so many letters that one can encode in cookies.

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