Black & white cookies are among Jon's favorite store-bought snacks. I think orange Hostess cupcakes are a close second. (And while we're on the topic...why oh why does New Jersey tax baked goods and not other sweets?)
But I have to disagree with Jon...and with Jerry Seinfeld. I really don't like these so-called cookies. They're really just flat cupcakes masquerading as cookies. Ugh...the nerve!
Maybe I'll have to come up with a real black & white cookie--one that's more Quaker Oats Man than Betty Crocker.
I wholeheartedly agree. Black & white cookies are totally sub-par.
Posted by: Kim | July 18, 2008 at 09:56 AM
Hi, Kim. Yes! I'm not the only one who's unimpressed with black & white cookies. This is how I feel about it: If I want cake, I'll have cake. If a want a cookie, I'll have a cookie. But black & white cookies aren't the kind of cake I'd ever crave, and (duh!) I'd rather have an oatmeal cookie than any other kind of cookie.
Whenever Jon gets one, I make scrunchy-looking faces and repeat "I don't like those" over and over until he finished the thing. I know...so mature.
Posted by: Oatmeal Cookie guy | July 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM
....to which I reply, "you don't have to eat them!" I was raised on black and white cookies, so maybe it's a regional thing: when I was very young, my mom used to get two black and white cookies when she'd make her regular trips to Butterflake Bakery in Teaneck, NJ -- one was for her of course, and she'd split the other one between my brother and me so that we'd each get a black *and* a white half...
Posted by: Jonnazz | July 18, 2008 at 04:02 PM
I love black and white cookies. But only the black half!
Posted by: Princess Ariele | July 18, 2008 at 04:09 PM
Well, Jonnazz, I guess I'll have to stop making faces. :-D
Posted by: Oatmeal Cookie Guy | July 18, 2008 at 05:33 PM
Hey, Princess Ariele. That's the other thing...the vanilla icing is always way too sweet--cloyingly, tooth-achingly sweet.
Posted by: Oatmeal Cookie Guy | July 18, 2008 at 05:35 PM