What is a 'cookie'?

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 11:55 am

I mean this in the sense that a baked sweet item eaten as a desert or snack item, not the thing websites leave on your browser.

Now, one thing the movie Armageddon asked is why animal crackers are crackers instead of cookies.

This also brings up the question why graham crackers are also not considered cookies.

Do soft cookies count? What about brownies? You can get brownies as squares or you can get them cut as circular wafers same as cookies, are they brownies or cookies?

And cereal bars, like granola bars, are they cookies?

Vanilla wafers?

How do you determine the difference?

Given the success of the What is a Sandwich question I decided to do another one.

Almost on board here · Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:03 am

Tdarcos wrote:How do you determine the difference?

A cookie is the one thing you don't drown in gallons of honey mustard before devouring. Also, you probably ate 46,000 of them in the time it took you to read this response.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 3:32 am

Almost on board here wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:How do you determine the difference?
A cookie is the one thing you don't drown in gallons of honey mustard before devouring. Also, you probably ate 46,000 of them in the time it took you to read this response.

Why don't you go home and fuck your mother some more, then come back when you can learn to stop being an asshole.

Almost on board here · Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:38 am

Tdarcos wrote:
Almost on board here wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:How do you determine the difference?
A cookie is the one thing you don't drown in gallons of honey mustard before devouring. Also, you probably ate 46,000 of them in the time it took you to read this response.
Why don't you go home and fuck your mother some more, then come back when you can learn to stop being an asshole.

I help you figure out the answer to your question, and this is the thanks I get?

Jizaboz · Post by **Jizaboz** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:34 am

Hm well the difference between brownies and soft cookies is that brownies are more "cake-like" and "spongy". Clear enough distinction for me anyway.

Graham crackers are probably always called crackers due to their shape.

Almost on board here · Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:41 am

Jizaboz wrote:Hm well the difference between brownies and soft cookies is that brownies are more "cake-like" and "spongy". Clear enough distinction for me anyway.

Graham crackers are probably always called crackers due to their shape.

I was thinking the same thing until I looked up the definition from Cambridge, and the American English version does not mention density AND it does mention it as being a flat cake? I still need to stick to my original classification on this one.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/diction ... ish/cookie

Jizaboz · Post by **Jizaboz** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:49 am

Yeah well.. British people call things I would call a cracker a "biscuit" haha.

Almost on board here · Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:56 am

Jizaboz wrote:Yeah well.. British people call things I would call a cracker a "biscuit" haha.

Merriam-Webster has pretty much the same definition, except with less panache.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cookie

Didn't see this coming. · Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:32 pm

Another fun bit of trivia is that the name "Webster" is public domain, so many hack job publishers will make a shit dictionary and just print "Webster" by itself on the front of it to sell to unassuming consumers.

dictionary.com · Post by **dictionary.com** » Tue Oct 18, 2016 1:18 am

Didn't see this coming. wrote:Another fun bit of trivia is that the name "Webster" is public domain, so many hack job publishers will make a shit dictionary and just print "Webster" by itself on the front of it to sell to unassuming consumers.

yeah, cuz dictionaries are really flying off the damn shelves nowadays.

amazon.com · Post by **amazon.com** » Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:52 am

dictionary.com wrote:
Didn't see this coming. wrote:Another fun bit of trivia is that the name "Webster" is public domain, so many hack job publishers will make a shit dictionary and just print "Webster" by itself on the front of it to sell to unassuming consumers.
yeah, cuz dictionaries are really flying off the damn shelves nowadays.

A quick Amazon search brings up over 300k dictionaries, not to mention you can still buy them in every Walmart, airport, college book store, regular book store, the list goes on and on. I am not saying they are a hot ticket item, but they still sell really well based on their availability everywhere, and "Webster" has been in public domain long before the internet was easily available to the general public.