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Governors place sweet-and-salty bet on Eagles-Vikings game

HARRISBURG — At stake when the Eagles play the Vikings this weekend are bragging rights, a Super Bowl trip and, for the governors of Pennsylvania and Minnesota, a large pile of junk food.

If the Eagles win, Gov. Wolf will receive a five-pound Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll from Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, a fellow Democrat. If they lose, Wolf has to send five pounds of Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets to the governor’s mansion in St. Paul.

In an ecological twist on the civic tradition of the sports wager, the Philadelphia Zoo and its counterparts, the Como Zoo in St.