I rarely buy store bought cookies. I mean, I am the cookie baker!But once in a while I'll pick Taylor up a package of something.
That way, he can eat them and I'm not tempted...usually. :)
I did have to taste these Vanilla Double Stuffed Oreos, though.
The taste immediately took me back to those vanilla sandwich
cookies of my childhood! I got to thinking about my favorites
as a kid...and they are mostly store bought..just like this 1970's ad.
They have a lot of my old favorites here...Fig Newtons,Lorna Doones, and those sugar wafer sticks.
I'm also remembering Vanilla Wafers, Archway Iced
Oatmeal and Nabisco Nutter Butters. I haven't had
any of these in ages! The Vanilla Oreos
were quite yummy...and I ate this little stack with
a cup of coffee....Mmmmmm!
the first shot is wonderfully framed...cookies are a weakness of mine...i like them with a bit of a crunch so T cooks mine a little extra...
ReplyDeleteWhat is strange is how the names are different to the ones we used to eat here in Britain, but they look the same. Of course we also call them something different - biscuits and not cookies. I still love biscuits - McVites Plain Chocolate Digestives are my particular passion - and I curse my current diet which denies them to me.
ReplyDeleteMmmmmm...cookies( ala cookie monster voice )!!! Dang! And I new I forgot something at the store...
ReplyDelete@Alan, some of our fancier grocery stores carry the McVites, I'll have to give 'em a try :)
Ordinary Oreos don't tempt me but a vanilla sandwich cookie is something from which I can't walk away!
ReplyDeleteI love cookies and milk ... it is one of my guilty pleasures as I know I shouldn't be eating so much sugar.
ReplyDeleteMy favrite cookies as a child were mallowmars!
I like Chocolate Hob Nobs. In Canada, Nabisco cookies are the same but they are made by Christie and we used to have a TV commercial that said " Mr. Christie, you make good cookies!"
ReplyDeleteHi Betsy
ReplyDeleteWhile your cookies - we call them biscuits - look the same ours have different names.
The figgy one we called fly cemetry biscuits...
Happy days
I'm still trying to get over the fly cemetry biscuit from Delwyn. What is cemetry? Another new vocabulary word to google...I'm getting smarter just reading the comments on your blog.
ReplyDeleteHubby's favorite store bought cookie is the vanilla sandwich cream and he dunks them in milk.
Alan ~ Mmm from "Hot Toast and Jam" is always talking about Chocolate Digestives. Yes, it is interesting how the names are different. I'll have to look those digestives up since they sound to me more like a medicine for an upset stomach! ha-ha...although I'm sure they are a delicious cookie! I'm curious if they are a favorite of mine and I just didn't know the British name for them. :)
ReplyDeleteDelwyn ~ fly cemetery? Oh, know that is just too funny! You need to do a post of the history of that name for us across the pond.
ReplyDeleteOk, for all of you like me that never heard of a digestive ~ I googled them ~~~
ReplyDeleteMcVities "Digestive" biscuits. Why "Digestive"? Because they're made from made from wheat flour and easy to digest. A very popular biscuit in England. Tastes delicious either plain or with any kind of cheese or jam.
They sound delish!
My mother baked wonderful delicious cookies. I have always sucked at cookie baking even though I'm very good at cakes and pies and quick breads. go figure.
ReplyDeleteMemories...
ReplyDeleteI even remember the ads that were on TV! Na...bisco!
Mmm...now I need a cookie:)
ReplyDeleteCookies are so perfect with a good cup of coffee.;)) Here in the stores you can buy a frozen roll of dough and just cut it into pieces and bake them. That is the only way I can bake cookies.;))
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures as always.;))
Hi Betsy...boy, that ad takes me back! We were very happy with our store bought cookies back then, weren't we? :-) Now I think I'm a bit spoiled...wanting the homemade taste. How interesting...the different names across the big pond...never realized that until I read some of the comments. Now, did you know you could create such a intersting, thought provoking post about cookies! :-) Great subject! Ok, I think I need to go have one...now! :-) Susan
ReplyDeleteoh we would have a really nice coffee break with all of my old time favorites here....i could eat a whole package of sugar wafer sticks!
ReplyDeleteBetsy...I once blogged about my mother always making home made cookies and I thought I was at a DISADVANTAGE because I did not get store bought cookies!!!! HOW SPOILED I was!!! Just BRATTY!
ReplyDeleteI would eat your home made cookies ANY DAY over a store bought one!!!
Have not tried the vanilla oreos though!
Awwwwww this was torture! I just ha dinner in the hotel restaurant and I am soooo hungry still. Now even more so! I want cookies!
ReplyDeleteJill ~ I remember the store bought ones of childhood more than homemade. Funny you wanted the storebought. That's like me wishing to eat cold cereal for breakfast when we were served pancakes. It was probably the influence of commercials that made us long for the packaged foods! ha! The ads did what they were supposed to do...and boy, some things never change, huh! Taylor's done the same thing before.
ReplyDeleteOK ~ for those of you who had never heard of a fly cemetery, I looked it up. Here's what I found...
ReplyDelete"Fly Cemeteries or Currant Squares are made from a soft pastry sandwich with a rich, sweet, sticky currant filling. With a vivid imagination you could see a resemblance to the final resting place of a large family of flies perhaps1"
I'm sure they are delicious. And I'm also sure that I would call them currant squares! LOL~
I can't imagine NOT calling them currant squares. Just the thought of fly cemetery while eating a cookie is a little disgusting. I guess if it's what you're used to though...
ReplyDeleteMy kids used to love those sugar wafer cookies when they were little scoots.
ReplyDeleteOh the days when I could eat a plate of cookies like that and then run out to play - no worries about hips!
ReplyDeleteHi Betsy
ReplyDeleteI hope I didn't put anyone off their bikkies (diminutive of biscuits.)
Of course they were only called fly cemeteries colloquially by kids...
Yes they were the flatter currant filled squares, not unlike the filling in the fig biscuits...
Happy days
MMmm...I still love vanialla wafers. I relate entirely.
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