DUmmies Discuss Chocolate Chip Cookies.....No, Really

[GOBUCKS]

A whiny, bitchy post by the brain-damaged DUmbass unexpectedly turns into one of the funniest threads in days! I was reading through it, getting progressively more irritated at the whining pussies, and suddenly found myself reading some hilarious gems:

DainBramaged  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:25 PM
Original message
I bought a bag of Chip's Ahoy today, it's been a couple of years
They used to be a paper bag with resealable folding wire closures with two rows in separate bags and weighed 22.5 oz.

Today, a plastic bah with the 'resealable' adhesive top, 15.25 oz. and no individual wrappers on the rows of cookies. They are thinner and don't taste as good. And they cost $2.99, more than the old-style bag used to be on sale for only two years ago.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1109098
 

DUmmy Raine has a couple of obstacles between himself and homemade cookies:

Raine  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #1
16. Geesh not everyone has time for that
plus my oven doesn't even work 

DainBramaged  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:29 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. At LEAST half the thickness of the previous version. Kraft sucks.

We all live at the mercy of Big Cookie.
 

orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:32 PM
Response to Original message
6. one Rosetta stone of retails retaliation , everyones skinny but Wall street.
Homemade are billions of times better and better for you ,and cheaper.

DainBramaged  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:34 PM
Response to Reply #6
8. That wasn't the point at all, at all.....
Am I ****ing speaking Armenian?

Sometimes I think the brain-damaged DUmmy is Pedro's sock puppet.

Lone_Star_Dem  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:33 PM
Response to Original message
7. Yep. I feel your loss.
Chocolate candy bars used to my thing. Not the more expensive stuff I buy today, but the stuff from my childhood. REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups, Heath and Almond Joy's[sic]. The reward for many a days[sic] hard labor when I was a child. Now they're either nasty tasting or tiny or both. It's been at least a decade since I was able to buy one and let the old familiar flavors walk me down memory lane.

 
Check it out, DUmmy: http://www.oldtimecandy.com/CandyList.htm

flvegan  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:40 PM
Response to Original message
10. They also have HFCS in them now.
I don't believe that was the case when I ate them as a kid. Shame. So many things just aren't the same anymore.

You "don't believe", DUmmy, because it's immpossible to tell the difference. HFCS and cane sugar are identical in taste and chemistry. The difference is that one is made by American industry and the other is made by Fidel Castro. I wonder where beet sugar falls in the DUmp's political nutrition list.


A classic DUmp observation:

Irishonly  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:43 PM
Response to Original message
14. Seems like it is the way of the world these days
Most everything is smaller and either more expensive or tastes like crap.

 
This whole thread reminds me of a sig line quote someone here was using:
"The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone / Every century but this, and every country but his own."

sarcasmo (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:44 PM
Response to Original message
15. Quite a bit of the products we buy these days taste nothing like they used to taste.
Oreo cookies are a classic example.

Nothing tastes the same to taste buds affected by illegal pharmaceuticals.   


One of the best DUmp comments I can remember:

loudsue  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 09:52 PM
Even cheese (Kraft) is starting to taste chinese.

 

woo me with science  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 09:54 PM
Response to Original message
20. Yup, and Oreos have slime in the middle,
and yogurt is an chemical-sweet soup.
I share your pain and anger.

 

3holies (6 posts)      Sun May-15-11 10:01 PM
I grabbed a bag of Fritos in the store this morning (this is true so help me) without looking at the price...when I got home I looked at the cash register tape and discovered I had paid 3 bucks (2.99 + 9.25% tax to be exact) for 10.5 ounces of fried corn mush strips. I like them but not enough to ever buy them again!

I've bought a bag of Fritos every week for years. Love 'em. I have no idea what they cost.


Another truly inspired DUmp observation:

coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 10:09 PM
Response to Original message
I seriously recommend switching to Keebler Sandies (both the
chocolate and pecan). Those elves know what in the **** they are doing.

 

Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 10:10 PM
Response to Original message
28. And bags of chips are mostly air. This shit is maddening.
I want to pull my hair out every time I go to the grocery store.

onehandle  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 10:14 PM
Response to Reply #28
29. It's a warm up for the premiere of the 'Air Industry."
You think the 'Oil Industry' are a bunch of dicks...

We all live at the mercy of Big Air.
 
 

thelordofhell (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 10:27 PM
Response to Original message
31. Chips Ahoy sends their regrets to their loyal customer
Who has bought two bags of cookies in five years

[thundley4]

Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 10:10 PM
Response to Original message
28. And bags of chips are mostly air. This shit is maddening.
I want to pull my hair out every time I go to the grocery store.

Here's an idea. The chip companies can vacuum seal chips for the DUmmies.  If there is no air in the bag, the chips crush more easily during shipping. Stooooopid DUmmies. 

[jukin]

Real things in life like power, gas, and food are at 15%+ inflation since the boy king started fundamentally changing America.

If Obamy gets another four years the dollar will be worth ten cents and you will only get one chocolate chip cookie for $5.98.  However, I know that the DUmbasses will vote for him no matter how bad things are and that somehow, some way the Obama's regime of incompetence will be Bush's fault.

[delilahmused]

There are cookie recipes that require no baking and take about 5 minutes to put together. I have a peanut butter cup recipe that is to die for and only requires about a minute to melt the chocolate chip/peanut butter top layer.

Cindie

[Ballygrl]

I bought 3 bags for hubby a few weeks ago when they were on sale at Shop Rite and the cookies were big with big chunks of chips in them.

[jtyangel]

thelordofhell (1000+ posts)      Sun May-15-11 10:27 PM
Response to Original message
31. Chips Ahoy sends their regrets to their loyal customer
Who has bought two bags of cookies in five years

  Big mean sarcastic dummie




BTW, it's been more then a couple of years since he bought them. I don't buy them regularly either since I usually either make them homemade or those ones in the fridge section on occasion.  I say that though because I don't recall the wrappers on the rows since at least the mid-90's if not earlier...a couple of years ago my hiney. Everything else is indeed happening ie the smaller portion, but why would a dummie have a problem with this anyway since I'm sure they are all aboard the obesity train ala Michelle O. and nasty chemicals in that kind of stuff anyway. *the mind wonders*

[JohnnyReb]

"The cost of chocolate chip cookies must necessarily skyrocket", Obama.

Energy, chocolate chip cookies, whatever....if the cost of energy goes up everything else does too....We don't call you DUmmies for nothing.

[Chris_]

Maybe the cookies stayed the same size and the DUmmies got bigger.

[DumbAss Tanker]

DUmmies Discuss Chocolate Chip Cookies.....No, Really

And not at all surprisingly, bitching about them.

[Evil_Conservative]

Did Me-shell give you DUmmies permission to eat those cookies?

[Ralph Wiggum]

At least they're not blaming President Bush directly.  Which reminds me of this classic thread:

Horse with no Name  (1000+ posts)        
Mon Oct-09-06 08:24 PM
Original message
I'm SO SICK of Bush's Amerikkka

I went to buy a head of cabbage at the store today...and ended up choosing something else because I simply don't trust it.
Is there ANYTHING that turdburger hasn't ****ed up??

Here ya' go, Horse with No Brain, does this still give you nightmares?

[movie buff]

Did Me-shell give you DUmmies permission to eat those cookies?

LOL!
I was just going to point out, for all the DUmmies complaining that cookies and candy bars and other such things are thinner and don't taste as good, they should just keep in mind that, similar to what's happening with McDonald's, the snack food companies are under a lot of pressure from ultra- liberal health- food Nazis like Moo- chelle to decrease portion sizes and cut out certain ingredients in the name of "Fighting child obesity." So, once again, liberals are whining about something that their own views and policies caused.

[BlueStateSaint]

Did Me-shell give you DUmmies permission to eat those cookies?

An H5 for ya, milady!

[debk]

Lone_Star_Dem  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-15-11 09:33 PM
Response to Original message
7. Yep. I feel your loss.
Chocolate candy bars used to my thing. Not the more expensive stuff I buy today, but the stuff from my childhood. REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups, Heath and Almond Joy's[sic]. The reward for many a days[sic] hard labor when I was a child. Now they're either nasty tasting or tiny or both. It's been at least a decade since I was able to buy one and let the old familiar flavors walk me down memory lane.
 
 

Nobody has jumped on this one for the "elitest" comment regarding the chocolate he(she) buys today?!? 

Too good to buy a Rees-y Cup or Heath Bar or Almond Joy, these days? Talk about Anti-American!!!

I'm not much of a peanut butter fan, but I buy Reese's Cups for M as he's always liked them and he hasn't complained about them. I have always liked Heath Bars, and they still taste the same to me.

None of the traditional Hershey or Mars product candy bars are the same size they were when I was a kid or even when my kids were little, but of the ones I have always liked and bought, they still taste the same.

[FiddyBeowulf]

There are cookie recipes that require no baking and take about 5 minutes to put together. I have a peanut butter cup recipe that is to die for and only requires about a minute to melt the chocolate chip/peanut butter top layer.

Cindie

Want!!! 

[delilahmused]

Want!!! 

Mom's Peanut Butter Cup Bars
(The key to these is cheap peanut butter and good quality chocolate chips)

1 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups peanut butter, divided
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Melt butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Add graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar and 1 cup peanut butter. Spread in 9X13 in. pan.

Microwave remaining chocolate chips and peanut butter until chips are melted, stirring every 30 seconds. I just use the same bowl I mixed the bottom layer in. I don't even bother rinsing it out since the flavors are going to blend anyway. Spread chocolate/peanut butter mixture over graham cracker crumb layer.

Refrigerate.

[Randy]

OK I'll just mention this one time Mrs. Randy's newest tongue melter.

Coconut Twix.
She loves 'em.
Me, eh.

[Tucker]

I followed the link for the old time candy. Their watermelon coconut candy looks nothing like it did when I was a kid. It looked like this, but was 1/2 round.

[debk]

Mom's Peanut Butter Cup Bars
(The key to these is cheap peanut butter and good quality chocolate chips)

1 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups peanut butter, divided
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Melt butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Add graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar and 1 cup peanut butter. Spread in 9X13 in. pan.

Microwave remaining chocolate chips and peanut butter until chips are melted, stirring every 30 seconds. I just use the same bowl I mixed the bottom layer in. I don't even bother rinsing it out since the flavors are going to blend anyway. Spread chocolate/peanut butter mixture over graham cracker crumb layer.

Refrigerate.

My recipe is almost the same, but I've been doing them in mini cupcake liners/pans, with a small chocolate layer on the bottom, then the peanut butter, then more chocolate. Takes forever!

I'm going to start doing them in a 9x13 like you do, Cindie.  Cut them into small squares and THEN put them in the mini cupcake liner!!! H5 from me for a super time-saver!!