in #CASE you missed it… National Cookie Day
Some sweet facts about cookies.
The U.S. leads the world as the biggest cookie bakers and eaters, spending more than $550-million annually on Oreos alone.
It’s said that you will eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.
The first fortune cookie was made in America – the tradition of a fortune with your cookie is Japanese even though most people associate fortune cookies with the Chinese tradition.
Cookies were first made in Persia in 7 A.D. – they were more like cookie cakes than the cookies we know today.
The story goes that Ruth Wakefield accidentally created Chocolate Chip Cookies in 1933. Baking cookies one day, Ruth realized she was all out of nuts but she found some chocolate lying around and gave it a shot!
The first commercial cookie in the US was the Animal Cracker, introduced in 1902.
The US has a National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum located in Joplin, Missouri.
Early American tinsmiths began making cookie cutters by hand back in the 1700s.
American cookie jars evolved from British biscuit jars and first appeared during the Depression in the late 1930’s when housewives began making more cookies at home, rather than buying them at a bakery.
Thin Mints, introduced in 1939, hold the title as the most popular Girl Scout Cookie sold.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest cookie baked weighed 40,000 pounds and was 101-feet in diameter.