Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 31, 2014

Compared to his head, that’s a pretty big pair he’s got there….And I will not bring Ms. Plainwell into this………Doh!

I grew up on odd-tasting cookies that my mother had made and then put into the freezer for later. I was used to seeing cookies re-appear several seasons after they were first baked. And one of my grandmothers would often make fresh cookies from stale ingredients…

Funny you should mention that, masterskrain. Please review this Frazz comic past from 12/16/07:http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2007/12/16

:-) :-)

There is only one fruitcake in the entire world. And it gets passed around from person to person.

What? No fruitcake?

I regularly bake cookies and freeze them. Rule of thumb: if they aren’t going to be eaten within about 24 hours, they go in the freezer. Otherwise, they do get stale, and then…yuck!

When I met my husband, he complained about his mother’s cookies. Thought he was exaggerating until I saw that he didn’t even eat some (they were in the back seat of his car, on the floor) she had mailed to him at college. Made the mistake of eating some of hers after we got married. I finally figured out the problem. She grew up in a large family, so cookies didn’t last long enough to get stale, but she only had two kids, so the cookies got stale before they were all eaten. When she baked, she’d sample them when they were fresh, but didn’t freeze them, so by the time other people ate them, they were stale. I finally told her, so she froze them the next time, and they were delicious! Unfortunately, she doesn’t have much freezer space where they live now, so it is back to stale food.

I’ve always wondered why they call that plastic fruit brick CAKE! Icky stuff.

Nick nicks?

Speaking of kids acting like kids, EVERY CHILD IS DIFFERENT. And 1st graders can act like 2 year old toddlers and more mature than college students in the same breath..For instance I’ve never known my kids to turn down any cookies, even old stale ones and yet one of my daughter’s friends can’t stand anything sweet (I’m the 1st grade room mom so I see snack time at the parties) she’ll eat carrots and pretzels and grapes but wouldn’t touch the Fruit Roll-ups or Smarties.

Why would a 3rd grade boy be grossed out by an iced Christmas cookie?