I’ve known the term for decades.
Aren’t you from the Chicago area? Or am I confusing you with someone else?
My mother-in-law had one, too. We have it now.
Yep, Chicago proper. I asked my brother and he hasn’t heard of them either. Age thing? I’m 50, he’s 44.
Huh. I’m 71, and went to high school in a lakeside city between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Couldn’t say where/when I first heard of spritz cookies, though it could have been while I was living in Iowa.
Did the grocery shopping tonight, and right inside the door was one of those pyramid shaped stacks of pallets then individual tins…of Danish butter cookies! Royal Dansk, in those blue tin boxes that I think haven’t changed since I was a toddler. And marked down from $5.99 to $3.99, so how could I resist? Now I just have to hope they aren’t one of those long-ago treats that my taste buds no longer relish.
Oh, and my mom called them spritz cookies, too, and we had one of those caulking gun like things to extrude them from. She was an Iowan girl, too, if someone is tracking the geographical data.
I just saw a very similar blue tin at the upscale grocery store today. The brand was Cambridge & Thames Danish Style Butter Cookies. But looking at the ingredients, there wasn’t a drop of butter, just shortening (“edible vegetable fat”) and artificial butter flavor. Sad.
I’ve never heard the term “spritz cookie” before. And to me Danish butter cookies and Christmas cookies are two different things. Christmas cookies taste roughly tge same but are softer, have red and green crystallized sugar on top, and traditionally came in plastic tubs.
It’s like, “Fosters is Australian for beer.” Not in Australia it isn’t.
Next you’re going to tell me that Outback steakhouses aren’t all over Australia.
It amused me that the lede said a lot of Aussies think Americans prefer Bud-lite.
It’s one of the top-selling beers in the US.
I mentioned them in the OP. Check again, mine have butter as the third ingredient. This is one of the brands where the individual shaped cookies also taste different.
Yep, I’m sure.
(sorry for posting links to the album - my cell phone can’t grab a link to the actual photo)
You would not believe it but the movie “sound of music” is nearly unknown in Austria (not sure about Germany) .
Quite often these things are more commercial than genuine…
Yes, also almost unknown in Germany. I first ever heard about the movie here on the Dope, and caught it one time at an Sunday afternoon screening on German TV.
About 30 years ago, we visited Salzburg, and our guide told us that most Austrians are mystified by American’s obsession with all things Sound of Music. “Is that where the kids fell into the water?” “So Switzerland is just over those mountains?” “Where is the concert hall with the cool niches?” Etc. He said that it’s pretty much only the Austrian tour guides that are familiar with the story because they get asked about it all the time.
Believe it or not, Spritz cookies were featured on a segment of today’s CBS Sunday Morning about favorite family recipes that had been carved into gravestones.
