# Which is your least favorite cookies, and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540 "2013-08-18T05:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/21 "2013-08-18T19:28:24Z")
Any Archway cookies. They all taste alike, and it’s not a taste that I like. Fig Newtons. I don’t know if I dislike the consistency or the taste more. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/22 "2013-08-18T20:17:29Z")
I truly don’t recall the brand - maybe Hydrox?- but when I was a kid, half the time, the babysitter would give us delicious Oreos for a snack, and then she’d fake us out with something that had a lemon extract flavored cream. It was enough to make my preschool self learn not to trust. (And to this day, I haaate lemon extract. Real lemon is great, but never never never extract. Besides, I just don’t see how lemon and chocolate can possibly be good together.) On a related note, the brand of cookies that purports to recreate Sunshine Lemon Coolers uses extract instead of real lemon. I was very disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/23 "2013-08-18T20:20:25Z")
Sorry guys, Hydrox came first. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/24 "2013-08-18T20:24:10Z")
That may be, but they’re still gross. The Model A came before the Deusenburg, but I know which one I prefer! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/25 "2013-08-18T20:26:04Z")
Never knew there was so much hate for cookies. I like most of them except Ginger Snaps or Molasses. Never cared for the taste. I don’t buy the cheap store brands. But I’d eat one if offered. Cookies are good. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/26 "2013-08-18T20:29:22Z")
Peanut butter cookies. I don’t care if Satan himself makes 'em, they still suck. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/27 "2013-08-18T20:30:26Z")
Oh, and I will happily trade you my Thin Mints or Grasshoppers or anything else with mint and chocolate for your oatmeal raisin or coconut cookies. Again, two flavors I like separately, but not together. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/28 "2013-08-18T20:40:05Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Any Archway cookies. They all taste alike, and it’s not a taste that I like. > > Fig Newtons. I don’t know if I dislike the consistency or the taste more. Archway? Are those the moist & chewy ones with a dab of raspberry filling in the middle? I love those! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/29 "2013-08-18T21:55:16Z")
Chips Ahoy. Rock hard and an evil joke perpetuated on unsuspecting American children. I have some favorites, but for the most part I prefer to bake my own cookies. Cookies taste better without mountains of preservatives in them. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/30 "2013-08-18T22:24:10Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Sugar cookies always remind me of being forced to go to Vacation Bible School. They always served the same terrible sugar cookies. They tasted like sadness and broken summer dreams. I find this phrase to be both completely accurate and quite evocative. Quite possibly because I was forced to go to VBS every summer as well. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/31 "2013-08-18T23:02:20Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Bah! Nuts are delicious in cookies! > > Bah! So are raisins! > > Bah! So are– > > Wait, what? Yes, I’ve found store-bought chocolate chip cookies with onion powder in them. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/32 "2013-08-18T23:09:37Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Fig Newtons. I don’t know if I dislike the consistency or the taste more. Buy a pack of Strawberry Newtons. You still won’t be able to tell. Agreed about soft-bake cookies tasting weird. Not bad, just weird. Really, there are no bad cookies. Some are better than others. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/33 "2013-08-18T23:37:26Z")
Oreos and Fig Newtons. And those sugar wafer things? The ones that come in chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry and have that weird filling? \ These things! [http://www.voortman.com/wafers.php](http://www.voortman.com/wafers.php) Bleah! Why? I don’t know, I just don’t like them! I can handle just about any other cookie. Except stuff with poppy seeds. Don’t like poppy seeds either. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/34 "2013-08-18T23:38:05Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Archway? Are those the moist & chewy ones with a dab of raspberry filling in the middle? I love those! They have about twenty different kinds, and I think that is one. I can’t really tell the difference between the ginger, the molasses, the iced molasses, and the oatmeal, and that’s about all we have here. If I see the raspberry, I will have to try them. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/35 "2013-08-19T00:11:39Z")
The ones you get for free off the internet. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/36 "2013-08-19T00:19:17Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > They have about twenty different kinds, and I think that is one. > > I can’t really tell the difference between the ginger, the molasses, the iced molasses, and the oatmeal, and that’s about all we have here. If I see the raspberry, I will have to try them. Molasses is gross. Oatmeal is iffy, but the ones I’m thinking of are so moist and chewy delicious it’s not like oatmeal at all. [Found them](http://www.archwaycookies.com/products/raspberry-fruit-filled/). My local Safeway doesn’t carry them. They’re communist. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/37 "2013-08-19T02:39:30Z")
Archway makes (or used to make) these nasty chocolate chip and toffee cookies. When I was little, it never occurred to me that I could just do without any cookies at all if that’s all we had at home. Other contenders include oatmeal raisin cookies and perhaps those Danish butter cookies. Sugar-free cookies don’t even figure into this discussion, because there’s no way I’m going anywhere near them. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/38 "2013-08-19T02:43:01Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Oreos and Fig Newtons. And those sugar wafer things? The ones that come in chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry and have that weird filling? \ These things! > > [404](http://www.voortman.com/wafers.php) > > Bleah! > > Why? I don’t know, I just don’t like them! I can handle just about any other cookie. Except stuff with poppy seeds. Don’t like poppy seeds either. Yeah, those sugar wafer things are like dragging your nails across a chalk board, only with your teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/39 "2013-08-19T02:52:06Z")
I dislike all commercially made cookies EXCEPT Oreos and Girl Scout Cookies. Good cookies are so easy to make from scratch that I very seldom buy them. I usually don’t even purchase Oreos except when I need them for a recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/40 "2013-08-19T03:10:45Z")
As for Girl Scouts, [I would eat her cookies](http://www.yandy.com/Cookie-Girl.php). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540.md?page=3)