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Why are you looking so happy today, Blog Guy?
Thanks for asking. Because I’m going to testify before the U.S. Senate. I volunteered when I saw that they gave chocolate chip cookies to General Petraeus when he testified.
Okay, wait a minute, Blog Guy. What are you going to testify about?
Huh? I didn’t know it involved actually knowing something. I figured they would ask me how my weekend was and stuff. Look, that guy from BP testified before Congress and claimed he didn’t know anything at all. Can’t I just do that?
Actually, you’ve already convinced your blog readers that you know nothing, so Congress should be easy. But look here, Blog Guy, people don’t go testify before Congress just for free chocolate chip cookies!
You think they’ll let me have all I want? Do they have different kinds, like chocolate chunk macadamia and stuff? I mean, from the looks of this photo of cookie bakers in the Congressional Bakery, I bet they…
Focus, Blog Guy! Those are cookie bakers over in India. They don’t work for Congress. You’re blowing this snack thing out of proportion.
Will they have milk? Can I testify with my mouth full?
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For sustenance, chocolate chip cookies are provided for Commander of the U.S. Central Command, Army General David Petraeus, during his hearing on the situation in Afghanistan held by the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington June 16, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Workers make cookies at a bakery in the northern Indian city of Amritsar June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Yasir Iqbal
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I am sure they are making Indian sweets and not cookies…
And I am not a big fan, to be honest…
Wow…the Keebler Elf factory looks nothing like they show on tv.
Chocolate chip cookies got nuthin’ on my homemade double chocolate brownies
Take that for sustenance Congress!!
E.
I would do just about anything for a free cookie. Even a crappy cookie. As long as it’s free.
Judging from his smile, those must be medi-cookies®.
Sarabelle! Welcome back!
Really sarabelle? What would you do then for a free Klondike Bar?
Hey Sarabelle; only snacky good cookies for you.
Ooh… I know the answer to that… read the Oddly Enough Blog!
Yes….yes I did.
It’s too hot to bake, and now I want cookies or brownies!Oooh, I think there is still a piece of dark chocolate chili candy bar in my fridge. Though it is about to get smaller. Muat go now!
Decided to wash down the chocolate chili piece with a glass of red wine. No longer want to taze Baz…
…but that could change. Love ya, BG!
Jeez, I’m in danger all the time….
@Shra: They are cookies, not sweets.
Unca! Guess what… I may just try and bake a chocolate cake this weekend… just to celebrate leaving my old job… he he he… I am still at it and its already old…
lets see if I cant win the people at teh new office over with the cake…
Gooooey chocolate cake….. anyone want?
Oh and E, I dont doubt your homemade double chocolate brownies are the bestest…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Ireland’s bestest baker, Egeria!!!
Fwd, I think they are more likely to be making sweets than cookies… but I could be wrong…
Are they cookies or are they sweets? Find out the compelling results as two OE commenters, fwd079 and Shra, battle it out to see who will win the “Confection Crumble Rumble”!
Regarding cookie vs. sweets, I have to defer to the original photo caption, which appears at the bottom of the post, in which our photographer says they are cookies.
And your photographers dont ever get it wrong, BG?? Like EVER??
Sure, Shra, sometimes. I just figured they knew what a cookie was. Then again, maybe it’s the fault of the British influence over there, since a cookie is a biscuit and a potato chip is a crisp and a french fry is a chip.
It could also be that the photographers completely messed up and reported an Indian sweet to be a cookie?
That IS possible now, aint it? Maybe like a tiny possibility?
Sure, Shra. We have another photo from the same shoot, showing the stuff after it’s baked. I blew up a portion of it and sent it to you on Facebook….
Ok… I could fall flat on my face with that one… but I still put my point across… Now, thats what counts, doesnt it?
Say, fwd, you aint saying anything… did BG tie and gag u?
Since when is a chocolate chip cookie considered “sustenance”? Snack not sustenance.
We may call cookies biscuits, but you call scones biscuits, and that’s way more wrong. And as for eating them with gravy rather than jam and cream…
How ironic…I hadn’t read this blog until just now but a half hour ago I had a craving for chips so went out and got some! And that’s ‘chips’ as in deep fried potatoes
(Took me ages to call a chip a crisp though, and I’m really homesick for proper biscuits now! The savoury kind, not the scone kind).
Baz, why is it that nearly every blog you post has me craving food?
E.
I’m sure I don’t know, E, but I can tell you it’s not a good thing that I even had you craving poutine at one point.
@Shra: You’re correct, but this time its cookies trust me on this
Who has scones with gravy?????????
Oh, unca, I’m not in the best shape, jeez louise! Although I’m also watching my carbon footprint and I walk everywhere I go, it’s obvious to most people I’m a proper foodie.
But thanks, you’ve really made my day!! I’m about to walk into town now to get some shopping done. And no, not the boring kind of shopping that involves clothes, I mean the fun shopping that involves the grocery store
Did I mention I’m making brownies tonight?
E.
E, you are absolutely killing me!! Thats it, its definitely chocolate gooey cake this weekend!
Ooohhh and fwd079 uses the “Trust me on this one” offense!! Perfect delivery, a precision tactic if there ever was one! This might be hard for Shra to counter but one can never underestimate her lethal arsenal of wittyness.
Can she pull off a convincing rebuttal to the cookies vs. sweets debate
Find out as the “Confection Crumble Rumble” heats up!
Fwd, if I knew you on FB, I would have shown you the pic that Basler sent me… and I told him that they are DEFINITELY not cookies… what they were, I cant tell you.. coz that would be giving out facts which we dont do here…
So, you trust me on this one… they are NOT cookies…
OMG who saw that coming? Shra comes roaring back with the FB reference!! And you know she means business cause she is starting to employ caps lock to choice words. Things are starting to get crazy. This puts fwd079 in a tight spot here. Does he bring the battle to FB and risk a huge hit to his side if the Basler pics prove to be real, or does he risk calling BS on Shra? Either way it’s risky for fwd079! He has definitely got to plan his next move carefully.
Stick around, it’s no holds barred now!
Really, stick around.
Please?
@uncarastus Just moved in.
I love me some chocolate chip cookies, but let’s be real here. Perhaps they needed some medidonuts instead. Where’s Michelle Obama swooping in to give the employees “healthy” snacks, like fennel?