# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/41 "2013-08-19T03:37:13Z")
I give you the loathed Pfeffernusse Cookie, a German tradition that is slightly less repulsive than the German national sport. [http://www.amazon.com/Lambertz-Schoko--Pfeffer-Nuesse-200/dp/B001L6EQPW/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376883194&sr=8-1&keywords=Pfeffernusse](http://www.amazon.com/Lambertz-Schoko--Pfeffer-Nuesse-200/dp/B001L6EQPW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376883194&sr=8-1&keywords=Pfeffernusse) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/42 "2013-08-19T04:12:13Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > 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. THANK YOU for mentioning Chips Ahoy! I thought I was going to have to sit this one out (on account of my philosophy that life is too short to eat enough of a cookie that you don’t care for to develop a most favorite one to not like), but you just triggered my mind into recalling the one I immediately hated with a passion. Famous Amos. And I know that Wally Amos is just as famous these days for being a motivational speaker as for anything else, but having tasted his cookies, my primary response to his existence is to feel bemusement that motivational speaking is a real thing. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/43 "2013-08-19T04:42:50Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > 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. Now I will definitely look for them and try them. I’m going to the big city (Champaign, IL) tomorrow and I can check up there. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/44 "2013-08-19T04:50:30Z")
It’d have to be the [wet biscuit](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wet%20Biscuit), for reasons that are fairly self-explanatory. ---
**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, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/45 "2013-08-19T04:52:54Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Now I will definitely look for them and try them. I’m going to the big city (Champaign, IL) tomorrow and I can check up there. OMG, now I’m stressed. They’re good, but not long road trip good! 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 19, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/46 "2013-08-19T04:53:22Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > It’d have to be the [wet biscuit](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wet%20Biscuit), for reasons that are fairly self-explanatory. I’ve heard that referred to as a “sugar cookie,” but Urban Dictionary does not list that definition (though it does have other, um, interesting ones.) ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/47 "2013-08-19T05:52:01Z")
I hate two of the most popular cookies - Oreos - weirdly sweet which is unpleasant, and I hate how the wafers stick your teeth Thin Mints - ugg. Just yuck. I love minty things of all tastes and scents, but these are waxy and dry, and they feel like sandpaper in your mouth. I love me some Fudge Stripe though… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/48 "2013-08-19T12:58:25Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Those dusty tins of assorted dry, crumbly piped butter cookies with mummified “cherries” and other crap on them. Only available in the living rooms of old ladies, on alternate years from the ribbon candy. Royal Dansk is one offender, but they get even worse at the dollar store. Ugh, yes, and someone will always bring them to work around the holidays. Probably regifting in order to get rid of them. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/49 "2013-08-19T13:02:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ugh, yes, and someone will always bring them to work around the holidays. Probably regifting in order to get rid of them. I know that’s why _I_ bring them into work! Because, no matter how vile they are, if I keep them at home, I will eat all of them eventually. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/50 "2013-08-19T13:17:10Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > Girl Scout cookies — all flavors. Because they range from “not really that good” to “one bite was enough, I’m throwing out the rest of it.” I thought I was the only person on the planet who doesn’t like GS cookies. I never understood the love. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/51 "2013-08-19T13:17:38Z")
I’m always amused by how much more appetizing food seems when it sits next to the coffeepot at work… at certain times of day, people will eat anything. 🙂 I might do a research paper on this sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/52 "2013-08-19T14:05:33Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Yes, I’ve found store-bought chocolate chip cookies with onion powder in them. Bleh. Uhhh…I’m not saying you’re lying, but Google isn’t returning anything remotely like this, and it’s hard to imagine why a cookie manufacturer would do this. Can you give us some more information, like a brand or a cite? ---
**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:** [August 19, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/53 "2013-08-19T14:36:02Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Uhhh…I’m not saying you’re lying, but Google isn’t returning anything remotely like this, and it’s hard to imagine why a cookie manufacturer would do this. Can you give us some more information, like a brand or a cite? Yeah, I’d be interested, too. That sounds bizarre. Although it’s got me thinking of making a savory cookie with bacon and onion. I swear, I hate the bacon trend (is it dead yet? I hope so. It’s far overstayed its welcome), but a bacon & onion cookie sounds like it could be good to me. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/54 "2013-08-19T14:47:05Z")
Add some dried figs to it, and I’m on board! Waitaminute…make it like a thumbprint cookie, filling the interior with fig/bourbon/bacon/onion jam. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/55 "2013-08-19T14:49:20Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Add some dried figs to it, and I’m on board! > > Waitaminute…make it like a thumbprint cookie, filling the interior with fig/bourbon/bacon/onion jam. Oh, I like the fig idea. I like it a lot. And the thumbprint cookie would probably be the most sensible and delectable way of doing it, but I’d be curious to try it as a traditional cookie, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/56 "2013-08-19T14:57:40Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, I like the fig idea. I like it a lot. And the thumbprint cookie would probably be the most sensible and delectable way of doing it, but I’d be curious to try it as a traditional cookie, as well. That sounds really good, but aren’t “cookies” supposed to be sweet? At least here in the southern part of the US, they were. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/57 "2013-08-19T15:02:50Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > That sounds really good, but aren’t “cookies” supposed to be sweet? > At least here in the southern part of the US, they were. Isn’t everything sweet in the southern part of the US? 😉 I don’t see why they have to be sweet and, apparently, there is a [“savory cookie trend”](http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/Stir-It-Up/2012/0829/A-new-baking-trend-The-savory-cookie). So, no I don’t think cookies have to be sweet. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/58 "2013-08-19T15:07:52Z")
Interestingly enough, that savory cookie page has a recipe for potato chip cookies. My high school girlfriend’s mother used to make potato chip cookies all the time (this would have been early 90s), and I wouldn’t describe those as “savory,” despite being made from potato chips. The way she made them, they were reminiscent of sugar cookies and if you had them without being told what they were made from, you probably wouldn’t notice. Her husband loved the cookies, too, but was never told what they were made from as he was a picky eater and the household wisdom was that he’d never eat them if he knew they were made from potato chips, even if she used his favorite brand, Jay’s (or was it Vitner’s?) ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/59 "2013-08-19T15:41:23Z")
Oreos. The cookie part tastes bitter to me. ---
**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, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540/60 "2013-08-19T16:06:42Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Those dusty tins of assorted dry, crumbly piped butter cookies with mummified “cherries” and other crap on them. Only available in the living rooms of old ladies, on alternate years from the ribbon candy. Royal Dansk is one offender, but they get even worse at the dollar store. Those are very popular in Thailand come gift-giving time at New Year’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-least-favorite-cookies-and-why/666540.md?page=4)