CVS Brand Cookies Do Not a Snack Make
Sunday night, about 11:30pm, my girlfriend and I were sitting around our pad in that not-quite-ready-for bed mode. Both of us had been reading for a good part of the day, and so we were a bit tired, but still up for watching another hour of garbage TV. And we both wanted a snack. But we didn’t have anything worth eating — unless you consider freezer-burnt Safeway vanilla ice cream edible — and were out of eggs, so oatmeal cookies were mostly out of the question.
So we decided to trek to the CVS up the street for some snacks. Why we sailed past the perfectly edible Chips Ahoy in favor of the CVS Gold Emblem Absolutely Divine Pecan Chocolate Brownie Cookies I’ll never know.
I’ll be the first to admit my expectations probably exceeded what they should have for a CVS-brand cookie. But the description was so promising:
Delight in the taste of creamy milk chocolate chunks and real pecans, made with real butter. Delicious!
Suffice to say they seemed to have never been subjected to any process resembling cooking; they tasted of old flour, rock salt, and corn syrup. (Note hip celebration of semicolon in previous sentence.) There was also no evidence — in spite of the chocolatey color — of any actual chocolate or nuts in the cookie.
I don’t know that either of us finished one cookie before the box was resting in the rubbish. Lesson learned.
