Oh! Coconut. Those cookies that are like... rings covered in coconut. I don't know if they're actually called coconut cookies or if they have a specific name, but I despise them either way.
raisins are just my personal nemesis because every single time I hope it's oatmeal with chocolate chips, which would be a true delight, and every time it's not
the mention of shortbread absolutely has me craving these iced shortbread cookies a localish bakery makes though. those things are dangerous in that I am incapable of only eating one.
Oh I love oatmeal raisin. I think that like. I wouldn’t say they’re bad necessarily but I don’t think I would be able to eat no-bakes in the present moment
ginger biscuits. i like them but more than a few and they start tasting chemical-ish. and if you keep them in a biscuit barrel they make everything else taste vaguely ginger-ish.
the way you framed this as a "philosophical question" made me think you meant "is there a cookie that is objectively bad", to which i was like "no, obviously there can't be", but then i open the plurk and immediately people are dunking on oatmeal raisin lmfao
Thx everybody!
see i don't actually disagree with that, i just think the oatmeal cookie needs something else to add some additional flavor and texture, and raisins and icing both accomplish that
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: LMAO YEAH THAT IS ACTUALLY KINDA WHAT I MEANT but this cookie war is still useful for the discussion topic because it's kinda making me think the answer is "no"
the thing about this is that if there were an objectively bad cookie flavor that nobody liked, the recipe wouldn't get popular enough for anyone to find out it exists, so we wouldn't know about it to be able to answer with it
+1 to lofthouse being as close to a bad cookie as you can get though
like I love chewy cookies, but if they're too thick, it's lousy
Anyway the real "awful cookie" is those spice cookies that are pressed as thin as communion wafers and are about as hard as a brick