Cookie Facts
Written by Lisa on February 21, 2008 – 2:08 pm -Here are some interesting facts about cookies:
– The Toll House chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933 by Ruth Wakefield. She was the owner of the Toll House Inn. She added bits of a broken chocolate bar into her butter drop cookie mixture.
– Before he became Cookie Monster, the Sesame Street muppet said his name was Sid.
– The desert camouflage pattern worn by US forces in the first Gulf War was nicknamed chocolate chip, because it resembled chocolate chip cookie dough.
– Nabisco’s Chips Ahoy were the biggest selling packaged chocolate chip cookie in 2006.
– Americans purchase about 100 million bags of chocolate chips every year.
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February 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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