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What is your favorite store bought cookie? Is it different from when you were a kid?

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Earlier today I finished the last cookies in a bag of Pepperridge Farm Chocolate Orange Milanos. They are so good I think I'll stop buying the Double Dark Chocolate Milanos if the orange are available. But it chaps my behind that I can no longer find either for $1.99. Cliff is partial to Pecan Sandies, and will buy Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chunk cookies when they are a good price. CVS had the dollar boxes of Fig Newtons two weeks ago, so that's what I had with my lunch. Talk about a blast from the past -- Fig Newtons and Nilla Vanilla Wafers were staples in the house when I was a kid in the early 60s. And Nabisco Sugar Wafers (3 packs per box, each wrapped in wax paper, broke the sections off with three wafers per break) -- Mom would try to slip bastard brand sugar wafers in, but all three of us kids were picky. And we were a Hydrox family, didn't care much for Oreos.
 

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Speaking of Pepperidge Farm Milanos, I really like the Raspberry as well as the Orange ones, even more so than the chocolate varieties. Otherwise no particular favorites right now. I do occasionally get an urge for Lorna Doones.
 

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Unfortunately, I had (and still have) too many favorites from which to choose. But, if I want to show my age and go far down memory lane, I'd have to say it was Iced Animal Crackers. I'm not talking about the little versions of iced animal crackers you see in the stores today (fake!) -- rather I'm talking about regular-sized, animal-shaped butter cookies with a really good icing that came in a nice cookie box. They were really good! And I haven't seen them for decades. I don't recall who made them, and I'm also not sure whether they were a local-to-Pittsburgh only cookie or not -- but, for some reason, those cookies continue to stick out in my mind. Ah, memories...
 

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Tate's Chocolate Chip. Thin, crispy, and taste like home-made!
 

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My mother was an excellent baker and for financial reasons made all our cookies from scratch. As a kid in the 50s any store bought cookie was such a treat! I think my favorite was the fudge stripe one...a round sugar cookie with chocolate coating on the bottom and in a stripe pattern on top. When I buy those now, they don't have the same appeal.
 

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The fanciest store-bought cookies I remember as a child are Nabisco Pinwheels. We'd get them sometimes (rarely!) as a treat to eat with ice cream. I got some awhile back, and man, are they ever different now! They used to be made with dark chocolate, which made for a crunchy-type coating, like a dipped ice cream cone can be. Nowadays they're milk chocolate, which is much softer (no "crunch"), and they're quite a bit smaller. There are also fewer in the package. There used to be 16 in the package, now there are twelve. The wrapper is different. And the price is much higher, which isn't really a surprise. I'd still eat them, but they're not like they used to be.

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As a kid,teen and an adult I loved/love animal crackers.
 

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Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies.

Same great recipe as the 70s, much higher price. Scored a buy one/get one at my last monthly shopping trip. They have been gone for a long time.
 

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Fig Newtons are the hands down winner from my childhood. We had very few store bought cookies, my mother made wonderful cookies most of the time.
I never ever came around to enjoying Fig Newtons. I didn't think they were "cookies", more like, some weird thing on my plate that Mom was making me eat.

However, I do enjoy figs right off the tree!
 

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I don't believe I've ever seen these before. Reminds me of an individually wrapped coconut candy from years ago that was square/rectangular brown/white/pink.
Nothing like that. Think of it as cake cookies with layers of jam between the layers with chocolate all around.
 

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Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies.

Same great recipe as the 70s, much higher price. Scored a buy one/get one at my last monthly shopping trip. They have been gone for a long time.

We had our first Nutter Butter cookies ever about a month ago. Had a freebie from Vons Monopoly game. Liked them well enough to buy another box on our nickel -- chocolate covered variety, of course.
 

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The fanciest store-bought cookies I remember as a child are Nabisco Pinwheels. We'd get them sometimes (rarely!) as a treat to eat with ice cream. I got some awhile back, and man, are they ever different now! They used to be made with dark chocolate, which made for a crunchy-type coating, like a dipped ice cream cone can be. Nowadays they're milk chocolate, which is much softer (no "crunch"), and they're quite a bit smaller. There are also fewer in the package. There used to be 16 in the package, now there are twelve. The wrapper is different. And the price is much higher, which isn't really a surprise. I'd still eat them, but they're not like they used to be.

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OMG, we were in the German market a few years ago when a new shipment of German marshmallow cookies arrived. They have the hard shell and the chocolate cookie bottom, and their marshmallow is very soft and creamy/gooey. They were so good! They must have ordered 12 dozen boxes or more because they were stacked on the floor in the aisles and their German customers were snapping them up. Haven't thought about Pinwheels in years, Mom used to buy them occasionally. Another treat that changed, but the change was maybe 40 years ago, was Hostess Twinkies -- they changed the cream filling from what it was when I was a kid.
 

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I never ever came around to enjoying Fig Newtons. I didn't think they were "cookies", more like, some weird thing on my plate that Mom was making me eat.

However, I do enjoy figs right off the tree!

My sister's friend Lisa just couldn't get her mind or mouth around Fig Newtons -- imagine a little blonde 7 year old girl with fig filling all over her hands, clothes and mouth. I think she tried to take the cookie apart. Anyway Mom had to clean her up before she could send her home.
 

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The fanciest store-bought cookies I remember as a child are Nabisco Pinwheels. We'd get them sometimes (rarely!) as a treat to eat with ice cream. I got some awhile back, and man, are they ever different now! They used to be made with dark chocolate, which made for a crunchy-type coating, like a dipped ice cream cone can be. Nowadays they're milk chocolate, which is much softer (no "crunch"), and they're quite a bit smaller. There are also fewer in the package. There used to be 16 in the package, now there are twelve. The wrapper is different. And the price is much higher, which isn't really a surprise. I'd still eat them, but they're not like they used to be.

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Those were my absolute favorite as well! They were a rare treat. :)
 

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....Another treat that changed, but the change was maybe 40 years ago, was Hostess Twinkies -- they changed the cream filling from what it was when I was a kid.

I think they changed the sponge cake recipe, too.

Ding Dongs were my favorite Hostess product, but those had change, too. I remember the fruit pies, probably back when lard was ok? Haven't seen them in a long time.
 

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Tough question, so I'll have to list 2 favorites from childhood that I still like (but don't buy often for fear of weight gain):
1. Another vote for Nutter Butter cookies
2. Mother's Oatmeal cookies (not the iced ones) - getting hard to find now

The newer brand of cookies that I cannot buy (because I go through them too fast) are the Great Value Fudge-Covered Peanut Butter-Filled cookies at Walmart.
 

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Our go to special occasion cookies are Pirouette's
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... The newer brand of cookies that I cannot buy (because I go through them too fast) are the Great Value Fudge-Covered Peanut Butter-Filled cookies at Walmart.


oooh, I might be able to like those. Are they like the Keeblers (don't recall name) that was a cookie, then a layer of creamy peanut butter, then all covered in chocolate?? I think there is a Girl Scouts cookie like this, too.

Thanks for the tip!!
 

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... The newer brand of cookies that I cannot buy (because I go through them too fast) are the Great Value Fudge-Covered Peanut Butter-Filled cookies at Walmart.


oooh, I might be able to like those. Are they like the Keeblers (don't recall name) that was a cookie, then a layer of creamy peanut butter, then all covered in chocolate?? I think there is a Girl Scouts cookie like this, too.

Thanks for the tip!!

Walmart is going put the Girl Scouts out of business. Their brand is very inexpensive. There's a chocolate covered mint cookie that's very similar to a Girl Scouts Thin Mint. The cookie I mentioned is probably similar to a Girl Scout Tagalong. And I've seen another on the shelf at my Neighborhood Walmart that looks like a Samoa cookie.

Fair warning: the Great Value fudge-covered PB cookie is deadly. The Great Value Fudge Mint cookie is a close second IMO.
 

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I love Lorna Doones. I really love a nice shortbread cookie, like the GS Trefoils.

The shortbread cookies in the tins at Christmas (the decorated like Christmas tins) were a favorite of mine, but then the cookies always tasted stale compared to fresh Lorna Doones.

I shouldn't be thinking about cookies. :)
 

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I have no favorites because I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but if we are talking about chips, potato, tortilla etc I could write a dissertation.
 
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