Include screenshots, show me the best cookie and link to the homepage if possible. My vote goes towards...

http://www.mattscookies.com/

http://www.mattscookies.com/cookies.gif

http://www.girlscoutserieshores.org/photos/Image/ThinMintBOX.jpg

Homemade - Oatmeal w/ butterscotch chips

store bought - Samoas :thumbsup:
http://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/cookies/cookiepages/images/cookie_samoas.jpg

anything with chocolate and no oatmeal or raisins or cranberries :D

Homemade - Oatmeal w/ butterscotch chips

store bought - Samoas :thumbsup:
http://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/cookies/cookiepages/images/cookie_samoas.jpg

I know now why I love you. You just named two of my faves.

Also, I can't get past my passionate love affair with the classic:

http://onewholeclove.typepad.com/one_whole_clove/images/chocolate_chip

Fresh baked. Right out of the oven. Sweet Jesus, nothing is better. Conversely, nothing is more hideous than beautiful cookie batter being burnt at the hands of an uncivilized brute. It should be a crime.

~String

PS: Panera (http://www.panerabread.com/) makes a goddamned good chocolate chip cookie.

What's a cookie?
I wanna talk about biscuits.

What's a cookie?
I wanna talk about biscuits.

Biscuits in the States are generally larger than cookies, more fluffy, and almost always savory:

http://www.kfc.com/menu/images/sides_biscuits.jpg

Cookies, what in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, are called biscuits (or sweet biscuits):

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2101548/oreo_Full.jpg

So, where you live do you have chocolate chip cookies, oat meal cookies and/or peanut butter cookies. Cause when I lived in Spain, I made them (and brownies) and was suddenly the most popular guy in town. Literally. I know that, to this day, my host mother still makes them and sells them at her shop. I can't believe people had never made them or tasted them before. Yep, I did my country proud: I exported American obeisity to an otherwise health conscious island.

~String

Biscuits in the States are generally larger than cookies, more fluffy, and almost always savory
Gaahhh, Americans mangling our language... :D


Cookies, what in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, are called biscuits
UK at least.


So, where you live do you have chocolate chip cookies, oat meal cookies
We do, but they're packaged and sold as that - i.e. it's a "trade name" or sub-category: bourbon, chocolate digestive, garibaldi, choc chip. They still get put in the biscuit tin.

I've been to the UK, and I distinctly remember the Brits knowing what a cookie was (despite their near refusal to use the word in a sentense; slight snickers, maybe a squinted stare at me and my American jargon). Moreover, for better or worse, much horrific American slang is catching on there. Also: there was an "Original Cookie Co." in Heathrow Airport and I distinctly remember thinking, "Hmmm. It wouldn't have the same ring if it was called, 'The Original Biscuit Co.'"

~String

I've been to the UK, and I distinctly remember the Brits knowing what a cookie was.
Oh we know what they are - and still generically term them biscuits.


Moreover, for better or worse, much horrific American slang is catching on there.
Yup, TV, Hollywood, WWII (:D).


Also: there was an "Original Cookie Co." in Heathrow Airport and I distinctly remember thinking, "Hmmm. It wouldn't have the same ring if it was called, 'The Original Biscuit Co.'"
Chances are it was an American-led franchise (or alternatively, named on the theory that "If it sounds American it's bound to catch on").

Chances are it was an American-led franchise (or alternatively, named on the theory that "If it sounds American it's bound to catch on").

Oh, don't worry, we have this odd cultural belief that an English accent adds 20 points to your IQ. So when someone is really smart on TV, often times, they'll have an English accent to highlight just how smart and cultured they are.

~String

Oh, don't worry, we have this odd cultural belief that an English accent adds 20 points to your IQ.
That's ridiculous.
I'm positive it's at least 40. :D


So when someone is really smart on TV, often times, they'll have an English accent to highlight just how smart and cultured they are.
Is that the reason?
I watched Hancock the other night and had severe trouble trying to work out why the TV reporter sounded "pseudo-English".
Question answered.

Edit: we also make good "bad guys" as well for Hollywood.

Jaffa cake:

http://www.123healthybalance.com/i/products/jaffa-cakes.jpg

Custard cream:

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/may2008/6/2/BE6E7552-0DAA-3F6F-238F300A0B6D1615.jpg

moonpie

http://lolliesgalore.com/images/moonpie.jpg

moonpie

Disgusting. You need help. ;)

~String

Disgusting. You need help. ;)

~String

You can say after declaring what'sername to be attractive?
You need glasses AND help!:D

You can say after declaring what'sername to be attractive?
You need glasses AND help!:D

Who? Besides, there's no "what'sername" that I'm attacted too, anywhere.

~String

moonpie

http://lolliesgalore.com/images/moonpie.jpg

I hate those things. I want to like them because I love marshmallow, but....ewww. They are yucky.

Wow, string. We are on some kind of mind-meld-roll. :D

You can say after declaring what'sername to be attractive?
You need glasses AND help!:D

OMFG!!!!! :roflmao::xctd:

OMFG!!!!! :roflmao::xctd:

Yeah. And?
Have you seen who String considers to be "attractive"?

Man I knew he weird, but not that weird... :D

Who, exactly, are you referring to, por favor?

~String

Who, exactly, are you referring to, por favor?

~String

I know who I'm thinking of!!! :D I can see it. You like men and a masculine woman would attract you. :shrug:
<sigh> if I was a christian, I would so be goin to hell

Who, exactly, are you referring to, por favor?

~String

Who, moi?
"Sexy librarian"????
Eeuuw, I wouldn't borrow books from her.:D

Who, moi?
"Sexy librarian"????
Eeuuw, I wouldn't borrow books from her.:D

Well, the talk around the scuttlebutt is that she's hot. I, for obvious reasons, do not agree. She is, IMHO, not altogether unattractive, tho.

~String

Never just go with the flow, my man.
Stick to your guns.
Actually you used roughly the same words I would about her.
I'd just leave off the "not" though :)

COOKIES!!!!!
This is the COOKIE thread!

Do you know I have the easiest and bestEST recipe for peanut butter cookies, on earth. Literally, it is the best. Bar none. Without competition anywhere.

~String

White chocolate macadamia nut cookies please:

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9291/prodwhitechocmacsi1.jpg

Jaffa cake:

http://www.123healthybalance.com/i/products/jaffa-cakes.jpg

Custard cream:

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/may2008/6/2/BE6E7552-0DAA-3F6F-238F300A0B6D1615.jpg

You know Jaffa cakes are cakes, not cookies/biscuits?

my favourites are bourbons.

http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/02/36/40/400_F_2364070_ryCibYZ5KqjbyLNscVW2v92GJgYZEO.jpg

Biscuits in the States are generally larger than cookies, more fluffy, and almost always savory:

http://www.kfc.com/menu/images/sides_biscuits.jpg

Hmm those look like scones.. (?)

Hmm those look like scones.. (?)

They do. I love scones. But they are definately NOT scones.

~String

How does Sciforums pronounce "scone"?

Does it rhyme with gone, or with stone?

For me, it rhymes with gone.

....http://www.kfc.com/menu/images/sides_biscuits.jpg

Cookies, what in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, are called biscuits (or sweet biscuits):

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2101548/oreo_Full.jpg

~String

so we have cookies, which are called biscuits.
And then there are biscuits which they call...scones?? (I think scones are horrible!)
And then we have rolls (made with yeast and not baking powder likes biscuits). So what are those called?