Grandma’s Cookies (probably never touched by human hands let alone a grandmothers) used to be my favorite snack. Two big cakey chocolate chip cookies per pack for sixty cents, and for hardcore addicts who’d moved onto the harder stuff – chocolate chocolate chip, which would crank you out of your sugar addled mind.
The regular chocolate chip ones had a strange undertone I could never pin down, like artificial vanilla and bubblegum. The chocolate in the chocolate chips was oddly crumbly as though it was stale or mixed with confectioners wax and sometimes had an odd white patina to it.
Now they’ve changed the recipies after fiften years and “Real Nestlies chocolate” or not, they ruined 'em.
I miss that unknowable artificial flavor that was the signiture note in Grandma’s cookies (probably some mysterious goo they found oozing out of a crashed meteor that they’re now out of).
Chocolate chip isn’t the only cookie they’ve screwed up.
I used to be a big fan of Grandma’s peanut butter cookies, which used to have actual peanuts thrown in. Then that cheap bastard Grandma decided to cut some corners. No more peanuts.
I was also a big fan of Grandma’s oatmeal cookies. They used to have whole raisins in them. Now they just have little raisin bits and granules. Furthermore, the cookies keep getting smaller and smaller.
Dang it, Granny, stop being so cheap and lazy. Get off your keester and make us some more of those good cookies you used to make!
Grandma’s Cookies were a childhood favorite–especially the chocolate chocolate chip. I noticed as I grew older, that these just weren’t as satisfying as they had once seemed to me. I thought I was just developing into a food snob. I’m not the only one disappointed by Grandma’s!
By the way, Inky–that odd white patina you saw on the chocolate was cocoa butter. When chocolate gets old, cocoa butter rises to the surface. Happens even more when it’s cheaply made chocolate (high amount of cocoa butter + fillers like hydrogenated veg oil + very small amount of real cocoa = cheap chocolate)
Grandma’s Cookies are one of the reasons I was almost 20 pounds heavier in high school. Somebody used to sell 'em for 50 cents a pack in my economics class, guess they were from the school store. I haven’t had them in ages but now I’m tempted to grab a pack from the convenience store near my subway stop, and do some research of my own. I have noticed that they look way smaller than they used to.
Grandma’s vanilla sandwich cremes (they come in a sixpack, not the big bag) still retain that hard-to-describe-but-almost-certainly-artificial cremey filling goodness that has spoiled me to any other cheap lunchtime treat.
nevermind that, what about the blue food coloring they added to oreos cookies!! everytime you take a bite you mouth turns blue! what is this this world comming to :eek: