mother's cookies is going under. mother's cookies is an oakland-based cookie company that makes my personal favorite cookie, the circus animal (which is actually also the personal favorite cookie of my best friend jordan pierce, one of the founding tenets of our friendship being a mutual affection for circus animals and an undying curiosity about what animal shapes the cookies are actually underneath the pink and white frosting; jordan once wrote to mother's to ask, and the framed response hangs on his wall to this day. if you want to know the answer, you can ask him, but let me just tell you it is not what you might think!):
this is terrible. really, really terrible. today i am going to go to the grocery store to buy as many circus animals as i can. this is the only thing i can think to do. i also thought about ordering this t-shirt for myself and jordan, but i did all my christmas shopping today (everyone gets soap, again) and still have to buy my airplane ticket home. so i think i will just eat cookies until i pass out. that is a fitting enough tribute, considering how often i have eaten myself sick on these cookies. for the record, i have always and will continue to enjoy every minute of it, including the lightheaded frosting stomachache that inevitably lingers long after the last sprinkle has been licked off the end of my sticky finger. goodbye, circus animals.
n conclusion, here is a little poem jordan wrote to accompany this sad news (maybe he didn't write it, but knowing jordan, he probably did):
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
1 comment:
This is terrible! Those little animal cookies with their waxy frosting are a huge childhood memory for me. I am so sad. I think I too will have to go buy as many as I can conceivably eat before they expire. How has this sad thing happened? Where did you hear about it?
PS What are the animals under the frosting?
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