Cult cookie favorite: Berger cookies from Baltimore. Basically, they're not so much a cookie as a nearly inconspicuous, vaguely shortbready thing that is a vehicle for gobs and gobs of fudge icing.
Should not be consumed without milk.
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Anne W. - Oct 07, 2007 12:43:17 pm PDT #5467 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
sarameg - Oct 07, 2007 12:43:45 pm PDT #5468 of 10001
I can get Anna's in Safeway, as well as IKEA, so I don't know if that one counts.
sarameg - Oct 07, 2007 12:44:48 pm PDT #5469 of 10001
Oh god, Bergers. I had them ONCE. They're a sort of worst nightmare for someone who doesn't like much sweetness.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2007 12:46:52 pm PDT #5470 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will accept homemade as long as it's not a recipe you can make yourself. Something your Tia makes for Easter would work.
In that, case Eccles cakes. They are basically pie crust with a lemony raisin filling, made as a bar cookie. YUMMERS. My grandmother makes them best, but my parents can collaborate to make a good version -- my dad is the pastry chef, but my mom knows what it should taste like.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2007 12:51:15 pm PDT #5471 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, this is kind of hilarious. What I described above is not at all the Eccles cake of wikipedia. What I'm talking about is much more like a Chorley cake, apparently.
OK, one more. It's a slightly lazier version of this Eccles cake.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 12:52:32 pm PDT #5472 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I can get Anna's in Safeway, as well as IKEA, so I don't know if that one counts.
Dang! Not culty enough. But I like the answers I'm getting.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 12:55:12 pm PDT #5473 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From Jesse's link:
Also related to the Chorley cake is East Lancashire's "Sad Cake"
"'Ere you go, dearie. Have a cup of tea with me and some sad cake."
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2007 12:56:29 pm PDT #5474 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Black and white cookie, from any real NYC-area bakery. They've only got packaged ones around here, as far as I can tell, and they just aren't the same.
meara - Oct 07, 2007 1:02:46 pm PDT #5475 of 10001
Yeah, Anna's are available in a lot of grocery stores--they're quite yummy, and the ginger thins are good too.
I mostly like cookies i can make myself. I was just at Whole Foods with Plei and family, and they had samples of some oatmeal butterscotch cookies that were better than the ones I made. But EVILLY, they did not have them for sale!! They claimed they did, but they weren't in the cookie cabinet. I had to buy a couple other kinds, to soothe myself.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2007 1:12:02 pm PDT #5476 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I will accept homemade as long as it's not a recipe you can make yourself.
Eh, nothing. I am not of the cult cookie people.
I have plans after 6. I think it's unlikely this headache will go away before 6. If I still have this headache at 6 I need to go to the ER. Do I tell the person I have (unspecified) plans with this? Or do I take him to dinner and then tell him?
Him and I both know if I go to the ER when he's even slightly available, I'm going with him. I just don't want him to be thinking that our plans are probably hospital again. I feel so boring.
I guess what I should do is eat and sleep and other things that minimise the headache as much as possible, and deal with 6 when 6 is closer.