Cookie Poll

Last Friday my mom sent me a bunch of cookie and cake recipes from my childhood. Naturally, this meant that I had to bake some of the cookies over the weekend. I made Honey Cookies, which are kind of like a spicy sugar cookie with a more mellow undertone. You roll them out and shape them, and the frost them with a buttercream frosting that is thinned down to be more of a glaze. They are delicious. I also made Crunchy Jumbles, which are kind of like chocolate chip cookies, only they have chocolate chips and rice krispies and raisins. They are awesome.

I was delighted to have a cookie flashback, but in an effort to keep from eating all of the cookies, I brought most of them into work. As I made my way down the hall offering them to my colleagues, I noticed a couple of interesting cookie trends. First, almost everyone went for the Crunchy Jumbles over the Honey Cookies, which really surprised me. The Honey Cookies are so cute, and the Crunchy Jumbles are kind of jumbly. They are equally delicious though. Second, while women hem and haw and say “Oh, I really shouldn’t” before taking a cookie, men get straight to the point. I could barely get the sentence “Would you like a cookie?” out before getting a resounding yes. They didn’t care what kind of cookies I had in my Tupperware boxes, they just knew they wanted at least one. They were more than happy to listen to my little cookie description, but they were planning on accepting a cookie no matter what. Only one guy turned me down, and that was because he’d had devil dogs for breakfast. I think in the future, I will try to react to any cookies that are offered to me in a manly fashion. No guilt, no hesitation, just “yes, cookie please!”

Do you think I could get some sort of research grant to study the difference in gender reactions to freshly baked cookies? It could provide valuable insight into the way men and women make choices in life. Plus, it would be some of the most delicious and enjoyable research ever conducted.