Here are 10 of my favorite kinds of cookies in no particular order:
Chocolate chip
Chocolate, powdered sugar secret kiss
Chocolate crinkle
Amaretti
Macaroons/Samoas
Chocolate peanut butter chip
No-bake chocolate peanut butter
Tagalongs
Thin mints
Cream-cheese bars
When it comes to desserts, I'm a cookie, donut and ice cream person. I like cake, but I don't have a lot of use for it (and cupcakes) when other desserts are possible. I love home-baked pie, but nobody seems to have time to make it anymore.
OK, here are 10 of my favorite Mother's Cookies cards that I picked up recently in no particular order:
I mentioned in a post 10 days ago that I had ordered some of the Dodgers Mother's Cookies sets in a bid to get all of those that were made each year between the mid-1980s until the end of the 1990s.
All of the above are from the 1987, 1989 and 1990 complete sets that arrived recently.
As I mentioned in the earlier Mother's Cookies post, those MC sets really give you a window out onto 1980s Dodger Stadium with all of its familiar landmarks, the diamond vision scoreboard, the pavilion, the Union 76 logo, the ocean beach color-coded seats, etc.
Most of the pictures are staged poses, which I don't mind at all, but as you can see above, some had fun with them and you always see interesting stuff in the background. For instance, is that a couple of office chairs behind John Tudor?
Then there is this:
Go with what works, Fernando. (His 1988 MC card is the same).
The Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser action photos above are the only two action shots in the 84 cards that I received and that Gibson really stands out as he looks completely out of control.
I also appreciate the coach cards in each set, the Dodger Stadium aerial shot in the 1987 set and the World Championship Trophy in the 1989 set, which recognizes the '88 title.
The envelope that housed the '89 cards recognizes the championship, too:
The 1987 envelope commemorates the 25th anniversary of Dodger Stadium:
I love those tidy envelopes, it's a shame I will be removing the cards to put into my binders.
The best of these three is definitely the 1989 set as MC or the Dodgers seemed to be extra fired up after the '88 championship and the photos are extra interesting.
OK, that's about it for today.
I'm sure Tommy's disappointed I didn't mention Pizzelles.
Comments
I know what you mean about those envelopes. I recently bought one of those Front Row sets, the Rollie Fingers with the autograph, on eBay. I didn't expect it to come still sealed, but it did. I could open it and close it up again (it's possible this has already been done) but I kind of feel that I shouldn't, you know?
I always liked cookies too (my favorites were the little boxed chocolate chip cookies at McDonald's), but unfortunately the evil demon in my pancreas makes me stay away from them now.
Remember the rumors that you can get tapeworms from eating raw cookies?
Favorite store bought cookie is this cowboy cookie from a local grocery store. It's filled with chocolate chips, oatmeal, and I think coconut. Normally not a big coconut guy, but I make an exception for these.
And I've written about Mother's Cookies and my trips to Candlestick and the Coliseum to get these cards when I was younger on numerous occasions. I was going to chase down all of the different sets from the 80's, but stopped at around 15 different sets. My new goal is to at least grab all of the A's, Giants, and Padres sets from the 80's.
Also I keep the envelopes in 4-pocket pages at the back of one of my binders. I don't have ALL of them but they're fantastic things to hold on to as well.
I have been a huge fan of MC cards and remember ordering the Oakland A's and San Diego Padres team sets from a seller in Baseball Card News back in the day. The Mother's Cookies company was acquired by Keebler in 1998 and are now a part of Kellogg's.
Once you get all the MC sets, you can get the Keebler sets they issued from 1999-2003 or so.