I’ve been watching reruns of Hazel on AntennaTV and I noticed everyone on the show refers to “Toll House Cookies.”
Frankly it irritates me when Harold (a small child) asks for toll house cookies.
My question is, do you or does anyone you know ever refer to chocolate chip cookies as toll house cookies?
[and yes I realize Toll House is just a particular recipe (or kind of) of chocolate chip cookie, but you get the idea]
“Toll House Cookies” is what the recipe on the Nestle’s chocolate chip bag called them. I’ve never heard anyone in real life use that name. I wonder if Hazel was ever sponsored by Nestle.
My guess would be the reason they referred to them as Toll House cookies on show is because Nestle was one of their sponsors.
And I’ve never heard anyone refer to chocolate chips cookies as Toll House cookies.
Chocolate chip cookies, of course, were invented at the Toll House Inn, so that is the correct original name, not just a kind.
It’s been years, I think, since I’ve heard such a reference, but it was certainly common when I was a child in the '70s. Our mothers made “Toll House cookies” with Toll House (licensed to Nestlé) brand chocolate chips and the recipe on the package.
Given that the Hazel show was made in the early '60s, it would seem odd to me if they didn’t use the name.
I have referred to chocolate chip cookies as “Toll House” cookies on more than one occasion. I’ll do so if I am discussing cookies with someone and wish to make it clear that I’m referring to the ‘traditional’ Toll House cookie recipe, and not some other chocolate chip cookie recipe (e.g. cookies with nuts, or made with chocolate in the cookie dough itself). But if I’m just making a general reference, I’ll say “chocolate chip cookies”.
I’ve never heard anyone refer to chocolate chip cookies as anything other than chocolate chip cookies.
The only homemade chocolate chip cookies I ever experienced as a child in the 50’s and 60’s were Toll House cookies, and the only name I ever heard for them was “chocolate chip” cookies. Calling them “Toll House” cookies would have been like talking about “Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star Brand athletic shoes” instead of just calling them sneakers or Chucks. NO ONE called them “Toll House” cookies unless they were having an academic discussion about the recipe and its name.
I’ve only heard “Toll House” cookies in those Nestle commercials.
But Toll House cookies are made with nuts … .:dubious:
FWIW, I remember my mom referring to them as Toll House cookies in the 60’s and 70’s.
Toll House Cookies were a big part of my childhood. They’re homemade and delicious.
Chocolate chip cookies are store bought, a bit stale, and full of preservatives. Probably the best know is Chips Ahoy!.
I saw the name “Toll House Cookies” on the Nestle chocolate chip package, but we never called them that.
Grew up in the 70s and we called them both.
Well, so they are…consider ignorance fought this day…
Doesn’t change the point of my story, of course. It just makes me an idiot.
:smack:
We never referred to cookies with chocolate chips as anything but chocolate chip cookies. (And around our house, when we leave out the chips we get chocolate chipless cookies. My daughter’s favorite.)
There must be people in the area who use Toll House to mean all chocolate chip cookies, because that’s the category the County Fair uses. I’ve never heard it that way, though.
As far as I’m concerned, Toll House cookies are made from the recipe on the back of the Nestle semi-sweet morsels package.
And the recipe I use is better.
Thanks to this thread I’ll have to stop at the grocery tomorrow and get a bag of chocolate chips, brown sugar etc. and make a batch of Toll House cookies. We’ll make a batch with M&M’s too. Take them to choir practice Wed.
The sacrifices I make for the smdb. 
The first recipe I ever saw for these was in a Nestle chocolate cookbook and they were called Tollhouse Cookies, which is what I call them if I make them myself. If I buy them from the shop, they’re just ordinary old choc chip biscuits. So, not only do I make the switch between ‘tollhouse’ and ‘choc chip’, I also change from biscuit to cookie as the situation demands.
If I’m making chocolate chip cookies, I’m not using the Toll House recipe. I grew up with the Toll House recipe being used to make M&M cookies.
If I use the Nestle Toll House recipe I’ll call them Toll House cookies (even though I leave out the nuts).
Any other chocolate chip cookie is a chocolate chip coookie.
When was the last time you heard someone say “Tollhouse Cookie Dough Ice Cream”?
I always called them Swiss Greenwashing-Infant-Formula-Pimping-Bastard Cookies.