Pete Braglia, left, and Nancy Gallea, center, and Long Island...

Pete Braglia, left, and Nancy Gallea, center, and Long Island Cares president Paule Pachter, right, model a set of "Snuggies" fleece wraps Tuesday at Long Island Cares food bank in Hauppauge. The food bank received 13,000 Snuggies as a donation. Credit: John Dunn

  Hauppauge food bank Long Island Cares has received a variety of decidedly nonfood donations in the past, including barbecue grills, Christmas trees, even doghouses.

But 20,000 Snuggies was a first.

The agency received the much-advertised blankets with sleeves from manufacturer Allstar Products Group, which is donating 100,000 Snuggies to food banks around New York.

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Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story. Credit: Newsday Staff

'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem' Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.

Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story. Credit: Newsday Staff

'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem' Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.

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