# Does your super market sell cookie dough? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755 "2016-01-31T16:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/21 "2016-01-31T20:11:48Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Not only are tubes of dough for cookies, rolls and biscuits available everywhere here, but also tubes of pizza dough. it actually unrolls into a sheet that can be stretched out. Definitely not as good as home-made, but better than the cardboard-tasting commercial alternatives. Yeah, Americans are lazy. I think I saw America’s Test Kitchen use the pizza dough for some dish, recently. If it’s good enough for them… . I forgot to mention [THIS](http://www.wicproject.com/images/2013/02/nestle-tollhouse-chocolate-chip.jpg). 24 (6 x 4) cookies in a grid, pre-sized, break 'em off, disgustingly E-Z. Of course, that’s a tad more expensive than the tubes, which is a tad more expensive than scratch, but it’s not like they double the price with the added convenience. **Johnny L.A.** said it best, “…for $1.29 why bother?” The only thing I worry about is the usual sodium content of these kinds of foods is really high–gotta keep tabs on the BP. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/22 "2016-01-31T20:27:52Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > So what do they call biscuits? Britain and Australia don’t really have biscuits in the American sense. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^^ Scones? Or is that a specific biscuit? Scones, as we know them, are similar to, but not really the same as American biscuits. Scones tend to be more doughy than American biscuits, and they are also sometimes sweetened a bit. American biscuits have more butter, so they tend to end up with a flakier, layered interior that you don’t generally get in British scones. And while American biscuits are often served as part of regular meals (with savory dishes), British scones are almost exclusively served with sweet accompaniments, such as jam and cream. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/23 "2016-01-31T20:38:03Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Britain and Australia don’t really have biscuits in the American sense. What do you eat your country sausage gravy on? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/24 "2016-01-31T20:46:17Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > So what do they call biscuits? As far as I can tell, the rest of the world has no exact equivalent, which boggles me. It’s also like, the one single facet of American culture that remains a mystery to the rest of the world. I’m glad we have one. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/25 "2016-02-01T12:35:11Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > What do you eat your country sausage gravy on? They don’t have that, either. Savages. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/26 "2016-02-01T14:40:24Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > It’s incredibly common here in the United States. Basically every supermarket has it. It is, now, but I don’t remember it existing when I was a child. (Ditto Cookie Dough Ice Cream.) Whereas biscuit dough in an “exploding” can definitely was, as was the dough for croissants/crescent rolls that may be like what the OP refers to. > [@wolfman](#): > > In actuality I bet a minority of the cookie dough makes it anywhere near an oven before being eaten. One of the several huge differences between biscuits and cookies (as Americans use the terms) is that biscuit dough isn’t at all satisfying to eat raw. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/27 "2016-02-01T14:53:03Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > In actuality I bet a minority of the cookie dough makes it anywhere near an oven before being eaten. And there is cookie dough simply intended to be eaten raw. Chunks of cookie dough are also included in some varieties of ice cream. Our national symbol should be a fat pimply eagle. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/28 "2016-02-01T16:39:00Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > It is, now, but I don’t remember it existing when I was a child. (Ditto Cookie Dough Ice Cream.) Whereas biscuit dough in an “exploding” can definitely was, as was the dough for croissants/crescent rolls that may be like what the OP refers to. > > You’re right, I don’t remember Cookie Dough (or CDIC) showing up until 1990-ish (?) at the earliest. Biscuit dough goes back to at least the mid-'60s. > > One of the several huge differences between biscuits and cookies (as Americans use the terms) is that biscuit dough isn’t at all satisfying to eat raw. But it makes for a really satisfying “snowball fight” in mid-August, when all the biscuit tubes pop at once in the convenience store you work in and all the other clerks go out in the street and have at it! ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/29 "2016-02-01T17:56:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Not only are tubes of dough for cookies, rolls and biscuits available everywhere here, but also tubes of pizza dough. it actually unrolls into a sheet that can be stretched out. Definitely not as good as home-made, but better than the cardboard-tasting commercial alternatives. Yeah, Americans are lazy. Martha Stewart has cooking & baking shows on PBS. She’s famous for making complicated recipes look easy, but she often includes something simpler in each episode. Last Saturday, I saw her make a [lovely pear tart](http://www.marthastewart.com/1132848/pear-tart)–using store-bought puff pastry! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/30 "2016-02-01T18:03:07Z")
^^ Lidia Bastianich, on all her Italian-cooking PBS shows, takes short-cuts like you wouldn’t believe: canned tomato sauce/paste, f’rinstance. Can’t say as I blame her; she says there’s no difference and I would assume she knows better. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/31 "2016-02-01T18:09:42Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > **Burpo** : Remember to toast the walnuts first. We like to use the halves, rather than the ‘baking pieces’. Never once in my life of cookie making (since 1968) have I ever used walnut halves or toasted them first. Usually used raw pecan pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/32 "2016-02-01T19:11:07Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > Never once in my life of cookie making (since 1968) have I ever used walnut halves or toasted them first. Usually used raw pecan pieces. Toasting them gives them a ‘better’ flavor. At least, I like it better. As for halves, I make big cookies. And The Missus likes big hunks of nut. Pecans (halves) are reserved for pie – and yes, I always toast them. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/33 "2016-02-01T19:38:41Z")
Sometimes I want cookies. Fresh baked cookies are the best, but I have a hard time resisting the urge to eat them all, so I just cut a couple of slices off the store bought tube, bake them up in the toaster oven, and put the remainder of the dough back in the freezer until the next time. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/34 "2016-02-01T19:57:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Not only are tubes of dough for cookies, rolls and biscuits available everywhere here, but also tubes of pizza dough. it actually unrolls into a sheet that can be stretched out. Definitely not as good as home-made, but better than the cardboard-tasting commercial alternatives. Yeah, Americans are lazy. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using packaged cookie or pizza dough. Both refrigerate well without needing preservatives or stabilizers or other chemicals. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/35 "2016-02-01T19:58:52Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Martha Stewart has cooking & baking shows on PBS. She’s famous for making complicated recipes look easy, but she often includes something simpler in each episode. > > Last Saturday, I saw her make a [lovely pear tart](http://www.marthastewart.com/1132848/pear-tart)–using store-bought puff pastry! As for that, you would have to be a really conscientious baker to insist on making your own puff pastry. It’s possible but it’s also a lot of work. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755/36 "2016-02-02T03:04:36Z")
You can also buy bags of pre-shaped cookie dough in the freezer. Just put them on a cookie sheet and pop them in the oven. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-super-market-sell-cookie-dough/744755.md?page=1)