Comic for Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Posted: 6:40 am, Wednesday, July 9th

Gotta tell you, gang, I just totally lost steam. Hell, I think I'll write this in the morning.

And now it's morning. Trust me, it was as brief a night for me as it seemed in this blog.

Awesome article in the Times on the single food item I have probably consumed the highest quantity of in my lifetime. The chocolate chip cookie. Things I did not know: The inventor of the chocolate chip cookie's last name was Wakefield. While I doubt she was related to my favorite knuckler, it does make me love Tim even more. Also, I was not aware that the quality of their chocolate chip cookie was the test of a baker. Things you may not have known: Raisins are known as the devil's chocolate chip, and should never be put into cookies, ever, because they're terrible. A quote from the search for the city's best cookie:

Given the opportunity to riff on his cookie-making strategies, Mr. Rubin revealed two crucial elements home cooks can immediately add to their arsenal of baking tricks. First, he said, he lets the dough rest for 36 hours before baking.

See, this information is useless for the home cook, because only the most indoctrinated Stalinist robot-man could possibly begin making chocolate chip cookies and then wait a day and a half to bake the dough. (Although, reading further, I guess I have to take that back, because Mrs. Wakefield chilled her dough overnight, too.) The Times frankensteins a recipe together, right here. Mayhaps I'll give that a shot in August, when I can breathe again.

Damn, that took all the time I had. Got to get up and go to work, Beastie Boy-style! I can happily report that those kids are mostly out of fireworks, and that there was no, uh, posterior lovin' going on upstairs that I heard last night. Small blessings, right?

bullfrog

Zero -- Wednesday, July 9 2008, 08:06 am

Are you trying to tell me there's a household out there where cookie dough could remain uneaten for 36 hours? I scoff. Scoff, i say.

Fireworks? 'Posterior Lovin'?' You move into an apartment or a dorm?

Zero

Why the raisin hatred? I love oatmeal raisin cookies. But I don't care for nuts in cookies, they just get in the way.

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oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are the best! no devil raisins!

Because raisins lay there in waiting, waiting for an unsuspecting young Bullfrog to come lookin' to sate his hunger, all acting like chocolate chips, and then, BAM! Health!

Fuck 'em, I say.

Bullfrong doesn't like squishy fruit. On our honeymoon he ate a banana and I thought he was going to die.

This means all of my oatmeal raisin cookie fixes must come from outside my marriage.

I gotta go with Bullfrog on this one. Raisins have their place, such as in granola, or plumped up in a curry. but in a cookie they are just misleading. If I'm eating a cookie, I want it chocolate or it's not worth the calories.

That would explain Toll House cookies. And I'm really hungry now, preferably for chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

I also like peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Heavenly.

Oatmeal raisin cookies are the fucking shit. Admittedly, a great chocolate chip cookie is a marvel of God's creation (via human beings, that is), but do not fuck with the O to the R cookie. So chewy!

Come to think of it, chewiness is my favorite food quality. Octopus is my favorite seafood, I love jerky, and oatmeal-raisin cookies are great no matter what you say. Interesting discovery I've had on your site today.

Happy to help!