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Cookie Trivia: Eating and Baking Cookies
- Americans consume over 2 billion cookies a year … about 300cookies for each person.
- The average American eats 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
- 95.2 percent of U.S. households consume cookies.
- Half the cookies baked in American homes each year are chocolatechip.
- Baking burns 168 – 348 calories an hour, (according theLivestrong Foundation and My Fitness Pal.)
- Santa Claus eats an estimated 336,150,386 cookies onChristmas Eve.
Cookie Trivia: Cookie Superlatives
- Biggest cookie: The biggest recorded cookie was baked on May 17, 2003 inFlat Rock, NC by Immaculate Baking Company. It clocked in at 102 feet wide and weighedover 40,000 pounds.
- Tallest cookie tower: The tallest tower of cookies measured 1.83 meters tall (6 ft1/8 inches) and was constructed by the Girl Scouts of Nassau County on January9, 2010 at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York. Sixty Girl Scouts used 22,800cookies to build the tower.
- Most cookies baked: Hassett’s Bakery (Cork,Ireland) holdsthe world record for the most cookies baked in one hour: 4,695.
Trivia about Commercial Cookies (A.K.A “Store-BoughtCookies”)
- Animal Crackers, introduced by Nabisco in 1902, were the firstcommercial cookie to be massed-produced in the U.S.
- 54 different animals have been represented in AnimalCrackers.
- The Oreo was the best-selling cookie of the 20th century. Americans spend $550 million on Oreos each year.
- Little Debbie cookies, produced by McKee Foods, were brandedin the 1960s after owners O.D. and Ruth McKee’s granddaughter, Debbie, thenfour years old.
- Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes of cookies a year.
Trivia about Cookie Cutters
- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) is credited with overseeingthe first biscuits cut into the shape of men from ginger dough, the precursorto today’s gingerbread men.
- Early American tinsmiths first made cookie cutters by handin the 1700s.
- The Cookie Cutters Collectors Club, a nonprofitorganization, was founded in 1972 as a way for aficionados to collect and usecookie cutters.
- The American National CookieCutter HistoricalMuseum is housed in the Joplin MuseumComplex in Joplin, Missouri.
- National Cookie Cutter Week is celebrated each year duringthe first full week in December.
Trivia about Cookie Jars
- American cookie jars, descendents of British biscuit jars, wereborn out of need. They first appeared in the 1930s as Depression housewivesslowly abandoned buying bakery-made foods, baking at home instead to savemoney.
- The largest collection of cookie jars numbers at 2,653 and belongs to EdithEva Fuchs, a resident of Metamora, Indiana (USA).
Official Cookies
- New Mexiconamed the bizcochito (biz-koh’-shee-toh)its official state cookie in 1989,making the state the first to adopt an official cookie. Bizcochito, derivedfrom the Spanish word bizcocho (whichmeans biscuit), is a shortbread cookie flavored with anise and topped withcinnamon sugar.
- Massachusettsadopted the chocolate chip cookie as its official state cookie in 1997.Chocolate chip cookies were invented in 1930 at the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, MA.
- Legislation in Pennsylvania to designate an official statecookie as been held up for several years as state lawmakers struggle to chosebetween the Nazareth Sugar Cookie and the Chocolate Chip Cookie.
- In 2004 a bill was introduced to the Michigan state legislature by a group offourth graders, requesting that Michigan Treasure Cookie be adopted as theofficial state cookie.
Unusual Cookies
Unagi Pie, a specialty of Hamamatsu, Japan, are cookies madewith fresh butter, crushed eel bones, eel extract, and garlic.
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