Tracy wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Tracy wrote
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>> Not too long ago, we discussed the demise of Mother's Cookies.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if Mother's and Archway are connected, but at the store
>>>> today there was a shelf tag in front of the dozen or so packages of
>>>> Mother's fudge sandwich cookies, that said both Mother's and Archway
>>>> had stopped making cookies. (The sign also said that those sources
>>>> also made store brand cookies for the chain, and said that they were
>>>> looking around for new sources for those.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I posted a story yesterday that Kellogg is buying Mother's recipes.
>>
>> I saw that, and that we don't really know what that's going to mean at
>> the consumer end of things. I hope for the best. Of course, my post,
>> above, was meant to add Archway to the list of cookie makers down.
>>
>>
>>
> My bad. I didn't even connect with the fact that Archway is shutting down
> too. I don't really eat those either but I remember liking their hermits.

I tried to help by putting it in the Subject header with "Mother's".

I can't actually name distinctively Archway cookie, but I'd say they've
been making cookies as long as I can remember. And I'm a boomer-geezer.


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Nina wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:53:17 -0800, Blinky the Shark >
> wrote:

>>I can't actually name distinctively Archway cookie, but I'd say they've
>>been making cookies as long as I can remember. And I'm a boomer-geezer.
>
> For me, two distinctive Archway cookies.... a terrific oatmeal raisin
> cookie and also those oatmeal cookies that are sort of folded around some
> apricot or raspberry jam. Comfort cookies.

Regular oatmeal cookies require some peanut butter spread on them.


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