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What’s your favorite cookie?
And I don’t mean the one that automatically logs you onto Daily Kos, which I understand only vaguely at best. I mean the kind you eat, about which I am a thoroughly qualified expert, having sampled as many as I possibly could over my lifetime. Although my memory is not what it once was, I can’t recall ever meeting a cookie I didn’t like. Like orgasms, even the worst one wasn’t bad.
I do have a favorite cookie. Let me say that I am an exceedingly uninteresting and predictable person when it comes to picking favorites (e.g., I’d most like to meet Obama; my favorite color is blue), and cookies are no exception. My favorite cookie is the ever-popular chocolate chip cookie.
I blame my love affair with chocolate chip cookies on my mother, who made them incredibly well. I think the secret was the perfectly seasoned baking sheet that she used. Seriously. That and the Crisco. Whatever it was, it broke my will. Put me within 50 yards of a plate of warm chocolate chip cookies, and I will find a way to scarf as many as I can. I have no shame and no remorse when it comes to chocolate chip cookies. As Garry Trudeau said so many years ago:
Even revolutionaries like chocolate chip cookies.
Indeed, I suspect we might actually be able to find some common ground with deplorable Trump supporters when it comes to chocolate chip cookies. Hillary could have banners: “Cookies trump hate” and “Stronger with Cookies.” Although if Hillary came out in support of cookies, Republicans would no doubt find a reason to attack her for it. Come to think of it, they already did back in 1992. And this new, explosive material was recently unearthed in a Wikileaks email dump on NPR:
Clinton Family's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 4½ dozen cookies
Prep 15 minutes
Bake 12 minutes
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 pkg (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips
• Heat oven to 350°. Grease 2 large baking sheets.
• Combine flour, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl.
• Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips.
• Drop batter by well-rounded teaspoons onto greased baking sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on a wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely.
Clearly, this is a nefarious plot by the Clintons to exterminate uneducated white males, who would probably try to eat all 4½ dozen in one sitting.
Cookies are especially popular at Christmas, which helps offset the crass commercialism as well as the polarization over “Happy Holidays” v. “Merry Christmas.” Personally, I have never refused tins or plates of Christmas cookies offered by friends and relatives, even those who are Republicans. To my credit, I am always effusive in my thanks and disguise how much I despise their politics. For an old atheist like me, Christmas cookies almost make this annual farce worthwhile. What better way to promote peace on earth and goodwill toward men than by eating cookies? True, obesity can be a real problem, but I believe in a balanced diet. Eat a salad and then eat a plate of cookies. Works for me. So far.
I know that opinion is divided on Girl Scout cookies. Personally, I love them, especially Thin Mints, which I eat by the sleeve. Samoas aren’t bad either. And if you try to steal one of Mrs. Dragon’s Tagalongs, she will break your arm. Just sayin’.
I like some other store-bought cookies. I mean, who doesn’t love Oreos, even if only for the ritual of pulling them apart and eating the filling first? And Pepperidge Farms Milanos are always acceptable, especially when dunked in hot coffee.
I must say that store-bought chocolate chip cookies are not in the same league with those fresh from the oven. But it’s confession time: I do use refrigerated Nestle’s chocolate chip dough to make warm cookies rather than baking them from scratch. Yes, I’m both gluttonous and lazy, just a couple of my deadly sins.
I will leave you with perhaps the greatest cartoon of all time, but you have to go to YouTube to view it. It comes from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and shows what happens when a child really wants a cookie.
So how about you CUActors? What’s your favorite cookie?
As always, this is an Open Thread!
LET'S BUILD IN-REAL-LIFE COMMUNITIES!
Our team is here to provide support and guidance to new and existing volunteer leaders of each regional and state group, helping them with recruiting, organizing and executing social and action events. We invite you to join in this effort to build our community. There are many ways to pitch in. If there isn't a group to join near you, please start one.
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Saturday, November 19th, 1:00 PM, Wine Country in the town Windsor. Private residence address will be given to the folk who RSVP.
Please send navajo a kosmail to RSVP and state your potluck item. We need non-alcoholic beverages, appetizers, side dishes, (plus vegetarian versions) salads, and bread. Ice and large ice chests, too!
Also tell navajo if you need to carpool. AND! Dogs okay. FTW! No livestock, though.
RSVP & POTLUCK LIST:
1. Andrew McGuire—Host
2. navajo—Whole salmon for bbq for whole crowd, 8 six-packs of beer and all the dessert
3. Meteor Blades—Two cans of Spam
4. side pocket—
5. Mrs. side pocket
6. smileycreek—Mini jalapeno polenta cups
7. paradise50—
8. Glen The Plumber—
9. remembrance—
10. TLO
11. jotter—One case of wine
12. aha aha
13. dsb—Ice in an ice chest, baguettes & cheese
14. marge—Curried potatoes and roasted vegetables
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16. maggiejean—Salad
17. elfling—
18. Hunter
19. elfling/Hunter offspring, not livestock
20. Lorikeet—side dish
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