It is that time of year when I am able to purchase the single most sought after cookie on the planet, the Girl Scout Cookie. I personally favor the Thin Mint where Sparky is overly fond of the Caramel deLites (aka Samoas). We now have a couple boxes of each stashed in the pantry for special occasions like if the Pope were to visit. As I was looking at the cookies I started thinking about cookies and how I eat them. So there are only 4 store cookies I am willing to spend my hard earned cash on: Thin Mints, Oreos, Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers, and Almond Windmill Cookies. (All others are but pale imitations of real cookies.) A couple of months ago Oreo came out with a mystery flavor filling in their cookies. It was a contest and if you guessed correctly you could be entered into a drawing for some sort of prize. Saintvi had some and offered me one to get my opinion on the flavor. She was aghast at my method of eating an Oreo.
1. Oreo cookies (original chocolate only as the others are an abomination especially the double stuff): Without milk the only real option is to pop the whole thing into your mouth. Forget twisting the halves apart. If you eat the middle out you are not an adult. If there is milk available the method changes to submerging the whole cookie into the milk and fishing it out just before it disintegrates. Place the whole cookie into your mouth. With either method chew and swallow and enjoy the lovely chocolate flavor.
2. Thin Mints: To really enjoy these you must freeze them first. Once frozen it is imperative you have cold milk available. To consume the cookie take a small nibble through the chocolate coating and into the cookie proper at opposite sides. Place one opening in the milk and use the cookie as a straw to suck milk through the cookie until the cookie is filled with milk. This may take a couple swallows of milk. Then place the whole cookie in your mouth and mush it up with the tongue before chewing and swallowing. Follow each cookie with a good swig of milk.
3. Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers: Like Thin Mints this cookie is best with milk. Again, take a nibble off opposite corners but don’t try to suck on the cookie. The graham cracker is very absorbent. Submerge the cookie in milk and observe the air escaping the corner. When no more bubbles rise, gently remove the cookie and bite off the far end. The interior should be soft and saturated with milk. Be careful not to drip.
4. Almond Windmill Cookie: This is a crunchy cookie with lots of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove. The originals have a square hole in the middle. This cookie requires concentration since to eat it you bite away at the edges until the cookie resembles a Chinese coin. Once it is the size of a 25-cent piece it can be eaten in a single bite. These tend to be a dry cookie and should be followed by a beverage. I prefer milk or hot chocolate but most folks like them with coffee or tea. The heathen will dunk them into the tea or coffee or nibble them into odd shapes like guns, boats or animals. I am refined.
So there you have it. I much prefer homemade cookies. I think my favorite is chocolate mint chip. Although saintvi makes a Pfefferkuchen (pepper cookie) that is very very tasty! But if I am going to eat a store bought cookie I’m going to do it right!
Most sought after, yes!
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Those Girl Scout Cookies are the best and of course the supply is limited.
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Keto cookies have variations of these cookies. There is one recipe for keto that I make with 3 ingredients. Delicious!
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Hmm. Want to share?
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Definitely! Give me next week as I am off for the Spring break.
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Seems like lots of places are extending their Spring breaks to avoid Covid-19. The University has announced only online classes for the next 3 weeks… This could be awful for many students – especially for the instructors that have to figure out online delivery!
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Looks like I am in the same boat but I understand online delivery.
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The tech that took my place is having a fit – she teaches the lab portion of the course that requires hands on work – things that you can’t really do on line. Things like restraining an animal, giving injections, performing anesthesia, and doing surgery… not likely to be able to do it online!
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Oie vay…..off to the juvenile at risk and the Admin is out. Should be an interesting afternoon.
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Good luck! I just got a message from the one who took over from me. She is hosed.
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I bet!
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I like homemade cookies. Wrangler buys oreos but in a stressful day I usually get into them so he does not buy often.
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Hehe! Oreos are a great stress reducer in my book too!
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Yes.
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yes and yes again…
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hilarious … I don’t know these cookies you mention but I’ve obviously been eating my cookies all wrong! Will try better next time 🙂
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Glad you could laugh! I’m pretty sure that you can eat your cookies anyway you want – These are just my personal rules!!
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oh I’ll try most things once and if it works I repeat … if it doesn’t work I revert to my old habits 🙂
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Don’t we all. Sometimes a change is for the better and sometimes not!
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I either dunk choc. oreo or take apart eating one side at a time. I’m passed popping the entire cookie in my mouth. LOL
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Enjoy your oreos!
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Well, we’re agreed on one thing, milk is essential to cookie eating. You really haven’t lived until you’ve had Trader Joes triple ginger cookies. If you read the ingredients list, you can hardly believe they’re practically health food.
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We don’t have a Trader Joe’s near us. Guess I’ll have to keep that in mind as we do our road trip…
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Omgoodness, you’re making me hungry! I’ve always loved the thin mints in Girl Scout cookies, also Oreo and windmill cookies from the store! Both with milk! And I still like to put an Oreo apart and eat the creamy middle first. I’m just kid at heart, I guess! LOL
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Yep. That would qualify you in that category… but my friend saintvi does the same thing. I guess if it make you happy you should keep at it!
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😀
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I also love thin mints, but I miss the vanilla and chocolate sandwich cookies they used to have when I was a kid. They came in the same box, but half were vanilla and half were chocolate. I wish they’d bring those back!
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They may make a comeback. Seems they “retire” flavors only to have them reappear. Hope that’s the case for your favorites.
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I’m with saintvi . I’m aghast and apparently not an adult. LOL. The s’mores are my favorite. DIL bought some for us. ;-).
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Ha! I guess I’m in the minority! S’mores were never my favorites if the thin mints were available!
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I love Samoas. I bought one box. I reminded myself it was for a good cause 😉 . I am not a milk drinker so milk would just ruin any cookie experience for me! ha! peace
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I know not everyone is fond of moo juice but it is one of the things I really like!
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It is hard to find a good Pfefferkuchen, outside of Pennsylvania or the Midwest. My favourites are still Snickerdoodles, the only cookies I will eat with breakfast, HOT Toll House, and the Mint Chocolates from Girls Scouts.
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A warm cookie is a delightful thing. The only pfefferkuchen I’ve had was homemade (saintvi is a wonderful baker) and it was really good! After a certain age cookies for/with breakfast are allowed. Somehow our 2 year old selves always knew that it was a possibility…
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