Walker’s Shortbread. But since a tiny little tin costs five bucks, they aren’t a good choice for binging. (Same cost-effectiveness curve for Girl Scout Trefoils.) For that I’ll take Lorna Doones or vanilla Oreos.
Do those things still exist? I haven’t seen one in over forty years. They were a great favorite of mine as a lad.
Tate’s Cookies. Are they a NYC thing, or can you get them elsewhere? The regular chocolate chip-walnut are fantastic, and I have a half-bag of toffee-chocolate chip in the pantry.
The serving size on the box is ‘about 2’ - but the whole box is only 2 oz. So yeah, that’s just bs, lol.
Oh, great. Now you say that 1) I can have them delivered to my door; and 2) they come in a dark chocolate incarnation! :smack: I’m doomed! They are a little sweet for my taste, but it’s the total Tim Tam package that makes them evil. The cream filling, the chocolate coating, the crisp cookie whatever-the-hell that is… ohhh!!
My husband taught me the “proper” way to enjoy them is to bite off each end and then suck your coffee through them like a cookie straw. I don’t know if other Australians eat them this way, but he was originally from New Zealand… so maybe that explains it. Can’t say this method really flutters my eyelids, but thought I’d pass it along in case someone else might want to try it. 
Helena330, I don’t like too much Stuf, either. Definitely prefer the thins. We seem to have similar taste in commercial cookies.
Fig Newtons. I was on a “fig bar” kick for a while and switched to generic fig bars. When I went back to real Fig Newtons, when they were on sale, I was like omg these are SOOO much better!
I love Double Stuff Oreos too. Regular Oreos are dumb.
I don’t even bother buying Pepperidge Farm cookies. No way. I am already too fat.
Yes, Nutter Butter wafers are the king. Not really hard to find, but not common either, certainly not as easy as regular Nutter Butters. Which is just as well, as I don’t need to eat them every day.
If I could only get one box at a time, it’s Chips Ahoy chunky chocolate. Not at all like homemade or freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, but they’ll do, especially with a glass of milk.
At one time I really liked the Almost Home cookies, now discontinued. I remember when Louis Anderson was getting started, he had a line: “I like those Almost Home cookies. That’s how far they make it - almost home.”
Oh, ok. TWO servings per box-- that deserves and even bigger HA!
Awww, that’s sweet.
Probably the only store bought cookie I have no control over. And it makes NO sense since they are just peanut butter filled styrofoam. I could eat 20 right now.
Another vote for Walker’s shortbread. This may be heresy, but I put Nutella on them. A couple of those, a glass of scotch, and you got yourself a perfect evening of relaxation.
I also like Fig Newmans. The original Fig Newtons are pretty good, but the Newman’s brand seems softer and somehow more like real fruit to me, though I admit it may well just be that I’m suckered in by the marketing.
I’m a fan of Thin Mints when I can get them. But limiting choices to what’s on the supermarket shelf get me Nutter Butters or my real kryptonite, Keebler Deluxe Fudge Grahams.
Fifty-one posts and no one has mentioned Mallomars?
Not store bought but you non Los Angelesers will never know the brilliance of this cookie and this business plan.
Exactly!
Bah. Store-bought.
Ace’s Own Oatmeal Raisin Cookies beat 'em all. 100% natural, too.
Diddy’s used to be good. I’ve noticed a decided degradation in quality in the last couple of years, though. They’re substantially smaller than they used to be, and their oatmeal raisin cookies don’t even have brown sugar OR cinnamon in them. I call them blonde raisin cookies.
The Back To Nature Peanut Butter Creme Cookies are the methadone equivalent, and should get you through.
Similarly, Pepperidge Farm’s Chessmen are a decent replacement for the aforementioned Royal Dansk Danish Cookie tin.
Ooh, if we’re talking that kind of store, then Subway macadamia nut/white chocolate cookies. Also, the one gas station that has thick chocolate chip cookies as big as my face, two sandwiched around a thick layer of white frosting. As gluttonous as I am, even I can’t finish more than half of one.
Any variety of Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies. A whole bag will disappear like it’s nothing. I’m a fan of several other Pepperidge Farm cookies, too, but nothing like Milanos.
SnackWell’s Devil’s Food cookies. It kind of defeats the whole “fat free” thing because I wind up eating an entire box at once.
I’m not sure if these count as cookies, but Pocky – either the chocolate or strawberry flavors. Every now and then I’ll buy a few boxes, with the idea that they’ll be around for several days, but I wind up eating all of them in one or two days. The matcha green tea and cookies-n-cream flavors do nothing for me, but it’s probably a good thing that I’ve never seen the chocolate banana ones!
The macadamia Nut cookies are not from Subway (though those are good), but Kwik Trip which has stores all over WI (and MN), and since thier HQ is in LaCrosse they are extra common in the immediate area.
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