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No absolute favorites these days, as long as they're good representations of (1) oatmeal raisin, (2) peanut butter, or (3) chocolate chip. And the latter is definitely in third place. I'm more choosy about them than I used to be, because more and more I find traditional milk chocolate chips so cloying that I really can only eat just one. Something darker is required. I like other kinds of cookies, too, but these are my go-to. And all of these three favorites should be chewy, but not ridiculously so.
A couple of cookie memories: The Famous Amos popularity explosion in the 1970s. If you lived in L.A. you bought them at the Famous Amos store on Sunset Blvd. It seemed everyone was excited about those, but I never much liked them because though they tasted fine, they were always way too crispy for me. It was then only a few years before Mrs. Fields hit the scene, and man, that was a cookie. I was crazy about those, and I was still gobbling up the chocolate chip ones then. But my favorite back in those days? The harder to find David's Cookies. The place I discovered them was a kiosk they had in one of the department stores in Century City. I want to say it was inside the west door of Bullock's. Maybe that's how they were introducing the line before opening any stores. But for me, David's just seemed even more luscious and delicious than Mrs. Field's. Of course both of these brands were among the first purveyors serving fresh warm cookies, and that definitely changed the game.
I recently ate some of the holiday-colored Oreos (the orange Halloween ones) which I thought were delicious. As far as traditional packaged cookies go, I have no idea what else I'd find appealing, and I'm in no hurry to find out. If I'm going to binge on store bought cookies, it's invariably going to be a package from the supermarket's bakery, not a brand name package. Ah, but there's the magic word. Binge. That's what cookies are for, right? And as such, they are something I'd really like to cut down on in 2016.
