Store bought cookies for cookie exchange?

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Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

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Exactly this. Leave your toddlers out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why so rigid about this? A neighborhood cookie exchange is a social event. If you're doing this through a meet-up with a purpose to share homebaked goods and rules that's one thing, but this is just a gathering. Food Network isn't filming you guys. Just throw them away or don't take them, or...you know, chill out and don't make a big deal about it. How are you obligated at all to put out cookies you don't want to put out? Just...dont!

Also, I personally get a major ick eating others' homebaked cookies. The majority are not good and some have questionable hygiene. But to each their own. I'd still go and enjoy the spectacle and be polite and take them....I just almost never actually eat these things.

Maybe the people who want to actually spend some time on their cookies should have a separate exchange from the germophobes who prefer cookies that taste like cardboard and are "just there to socialize." Also, there's tons of mouse droppings, etc. in commercially produced cookies, don't kid yourself that you are getting a sterile product.

Totally agree and a neighborhood cookie exchange should be the MOST inclusive, because it's based off of communuty and proximity and not skill or actual interest in eating the cookies.

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There are people on here who let their dogs lick their egg beaters and allow their cats to roam the counters.

WTF cares where she gets the cookies she brings? If you don't like those, don't take them home with you.

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Anonymous wrote:Cookies from a commercial kitchen > cookies from a home baker

I was just thinking based on other posts, those might be the only ones some people are willing to eat. I could believe some people do a cookie exchange to be social but theb toss then because Carol has a cat and Caroline's kids helped.

This!! One of my coworkers brought cookies to the office cookie swap yesterday. She announced that her toddler helped make them. No one took any! She was fuming.

A toddler dumping the flour in the bowl is a concern why? Even if the kid sneezes in to the bowl, they are going in the oven.

Nobody wants the sneeze and licked finger cookies. Sorry. Make cookies just for your own family with the toddlers, not to serve to other people. I avoid these as well.

So they must be homemade, but you can't have your children help. What holiday cheer!

Keep the holiday cheer for yourself and for your family. But if it’s for others to enjoy, nobody wants your toddlers’s hands in it. I will throw them away because I don’t want your gross mucousy, sneezy toddler germs in my holiday cookies. Sincerely, a preschool teacher who loves toddlers very very much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

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you're kinda a nasty.

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You're not allowed to be angry if you didn't state that cookies needed to be homemade.

I remember the days when I spent hours and hours decorating hand-made cookies. That was MY choice. I did not begrudge people coming in with store-bought cookies. People like different things. I was happy with my effort.

So don't be a hag. If you really want to, you can change the rules.

+1 It's not your cookie exchange Karen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

Not really. It would be like going to book club after watching the movie.

Or like listening to the audio book if they are nicely decorated bakery cookies. Like Wegman's sugar cut out cookies.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

Not really. It would be like going to book club after watching the movie.

Or like listening to the audio book if they are nicely decorated bakery cookies. Like Wegman's sugar cut out cookies.

Nope. You’re showing up basically empty handed with nothing to offer all the same.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

Not really. It would be like going to book club after watching the movie.

Or like listening to the audio book if they are nicely decorated bakery cookies. Like Wegman's sugar cut out cookies.

Nope. You’re showing up basically empty handed with nothing to offer all the same.

Disagree. She's not empty handed, you are being a stubborn ass.

Let go of the things in life you cannot control. This is one of them

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

Not really. It would be like going to book club after watching the movie.

Or like listening to the audio book if they are nicely decorated bakery cookies. Like Wegman's sugar cut out cookies.

Nope. You’re showing up basically empty handed with nothing to offer all the same.

Disagree. She's not empty handed, you are being a stubborn ass.

Let go of the things in life you cannot control. This is one of them

I can certainly control not bothering to take your gross mass produced cookies.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

Not really. It would be like going to book club after watching the movie.

Or like listening to the audio book if they are nicely decorated bakery cookies. Like Wegman's sugar cut out cookies.

Nope. You’re showing up basically empty handed with nothing to offer all the same.

Disagree. She's not empty handed, you are being a stubborn ass.

Let go of the things in life you cannot control. This is one of them

I can certainly control not bothering to take your gross mass produced cookies.

You weren't even invited dear.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year, specify “home baked cookies only”. Those frosting cookies are nasty.

I knew someone who claimed she had made the obviously store-bought cookies she brought.

But if the point is socializing, then I'd forget it.

It’s like going to the book club without reading the book.

Not really. It would be like going to book club after watching the movie.

Or like listening to the audio book if they are nicely decorated bakery cookies. Like Wegman's sugar cut out cookies.

Nope. You’re showing up basically empty handed with nothing to offer all the same.

Disagree. She's not empty handed, you are being a stubborn ass.

Let go of the things in life you cannot control. This is one of them

I can certainly control not bothering to take your gross mass produced cookies.

You weren't even invited dear.

To your store bought cookie exchange? I was at the real one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so gross to bring store bought cookies. I don’t even waste calories on those things. They taste awful.

One of my very nice coworkers only brings something store bought like that to the work potluck. She was so upset that not one person tried her pie last time. I didn’t have the heart to tell her it’s because it wasn’t homemade. No one wants that junk! I will eat Costco treats but won’t even try any others, especially not something from Giant.

Meanwhile every other thread on DCUM for years says people won't touch food made in people's homes because people have gross homes with cats and who knows what. So which is it?

This response made me LOL! I am a germaphobe, so I would probably just eat the ones made by people whom I know have clean homes.

What about slice from a cookie roo cookies. Technically, they are home made like a boxed cake mix.