# There is no cookie superior to the chocolate chip cookie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882 "2011-10-07T11:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/41 "2011-10-07T15:55:45Z")
Either you’ve have never had a good snickerdoodle, or you’re deranged. Chocolate chip is the Charlie Brown of cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/42 "2011-10-07T16:07:47Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Sorry. CC cookies are all fine and good, but peanut butter cookies are where it’s at. Finally! I can’t believe I got this far in the thread before true cookie greatness was acknowledged. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/43 "2011-10-07T16:52:55Z")
Chocolate chip cookies need walnuts for true cookie perfection. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/44 "2011-10-07T16:56:28Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Damn straight. Chewy is so fucking overrated. > > A crispy cookie, thin and baked correctly, will virtually dissolve on your tongue. Crispy on the edges, chewy in the middle = cookie perfection. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/45 "2011-10-07T17:00:57Z")
Warm peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips come close to chocolate chip cookie perfection. Oatmeal cookies are only worth eating when they’re still raw. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/46 "2011-10-07T17:01:48Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Finally! I can’t believe I got this far in the thread before true cookie greatness was acknowledged. Agreed, although chocolate chip is a close enough second that we can forgive the error. Raisins in cookies, however are an abomination. In the right place raisins are delicious, but in a cookie they’re as out of place as Clapton playing guitar in Beethoven’s 9th symphony. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/47 "2011-10-07T17:24:09Z")
Where’s the love for ginger snaps? AmIrightoramIright? Hello? _tap_tap_tap_ Is this thing on? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/48 "2011-10-07T17:49:37Z")
The chocolate chip cookie is to the set of all cookie varieties what the peanut is to snack mix. It’s there to fill up space with something adequate while cutting down on the need to make all the much better varieties of cookie. Snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, oatmeal raisin… All rank higher than the basic, workaday chocolate chip cookie and it’s boring plain-ness. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/49 "2011-10-07T18:00:14Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Where’s the love for ginger snaps? AmIrightoramIright? > > Hello? > > _tap_tap_tap_ > > Is this thing on? Yeah, I think ginger snaps and snickerdoodles would be on my favorite list, although chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin aren’t far behind. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/50 "2011-10-07T18:02:38Z")
Only a heathen would prefer another cookie over the snickerdoodle! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/51 "2011-10-07T18:06:48Z")
I prefer white chocolate chip/macadamias to regular tollhouse, but what I really, really miss are the molassass cookies made by my grandmothers cook. They were soft, had raisins in them, and the outside top was leathery in look and texture, not dry like all the pictures of other molassass cookies online. No cracks, no oatmeal lumpiness, no flour crusting or sugar crunchies … sort of like a leathery flexible pepparkorkor or whatever those IKEA cookies are called. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/52 "2011-10-07T18:25:37Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > little dead grape mummies YES. Thank you–I have hated raisins forever but have never been able to properly articulate that hate. You have done me a great service today. PS: Chocolate Chip–chewy edges and nearly raw inside. YUM ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/53 "2011-10-07T18:44:07Z")
Chocolate chip is ok, I guess. But my ginger snaps beat any other cookie on the planet, hands-down. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/54 "2011-10-07T18:53:07Z")
Not having read the thread… You are wrong. A nice, homemade, soft oatmeal raisin cookie is better than anything else. Period. Joe ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/55 "2011-10-07T19:03:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Chocolate chip is ok, I guess. But my ginger snaps beat any other cookie on the planet, hands-down. Recipe…please? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/56 "2011-10-07T19:26:23Z")
Would chocolate chimp cookies be better or worse? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/57 "2011-10-07T19:30:04Z")
chocolate mint chips provide a tasty and acceptable variation. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/58 "2011-10-07T19:34:13Z")
I love chocolate chip cookies, but I am also a big fan of the [smiley face cookie](http://joninterglad.blogspot.com/2009/11/life-cycle-of-delicious-smiley-face.html) as well. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/59 "2011-10-07T19:39:17Z")
I love me some molasses cookies, and I’m very fond of ginger snaps (I’m also pretty fond of [Ginger Snaps](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210070/), but that’s another story!), but, when all is said and done, the chocolate chip is the king of cookies. Chewy, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882/60 "2011-10-07T19:40:37Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I love me some molasses cookies, and I’m very fond of ginger snaps (I’m also pretty fond of [Ginger Snaps](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210070/), but that’s another story!) Me too! I kept thinking of it throughout the thread, especially as it’s almost Halloween. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cookie-superior-to-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/598882.md?page=4)