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ToSte
10-13-2008, 07:03 PM
Mother's Cookies abruptly shut down. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/BU6413DQQO.DTL)
Roseangelo
10-13-2008, 07:07 PM
Damn, I heard about this but I didn't realize they made those cookies. I love those things. Time to go to the dollar store and buy 'em out!
Zog the Equalizer
10-13-2008, 07:19 PM
Noooooo! Now my childhood is officially dead. First Toonami and now this :(
ThirdMarioBro
10-14-2008, 01:26 PM
Goddamn George W. Bush to hell for ruining this country. All our local restaurants are shutting down from rising costs, gas prices are through the roof, a napkin is worth more than the dollar, Wall Street is dragging us all down with it, and now we loose animal cookies.

What's next?
Archon_Turtle
10-14-2008, 01:32 PM
This is the saddest thing...ever. Goodbye delicious delicious cookies :-(
MadPirateBunny
10-14-2008, 01:58 PM
oh my goodness! what the heck is happening to our country?
Ninjinister
10-14-2008, 02:00 PM
They don't make a generic version of those?
Archon_Turtle
10-14-2008, 02:03 PM
They don't make a generic version of those?

I don't believe so. And at any rate, it's still a devistating blow to my childhood *cries*
Ninjinister
10-14-2008, 02:04 PM
I don't believe so. And at any rate, it's still a devistating blow to my childhood *cries*

Time to make another headstone for your sig, man....

What totally blows my mind, is I just bought a bag of Circus Animals and a bag of Mother brand gingerbread cookies a couple of weeks ago.
Archon_Turtle
10-14-2008, 04:40 PM
Time to make another headstone for your sig, man....

What totally blows my mind, is I just bought a bag of Circus Animals and a bag of Mother brand gingerbread cookies a couple of weeks ago.

Savor them!
Ninjinister
10-14-2008, 04:43 PM
Savor them!

They're already all gone :cry:

Man, first this, then TMNT being canceled. I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight.
Buslady
10-14-2008, 05:01 PM
that sucks i loved those white and purple cookies! :( poooooooooey!

damn economy

hell, we havent been getting many trips cos nobody's got money for bussing, so im sitting here and my poor ol bus is sitting, fueled and waiting to go out...aint been out since friday.
Drtooth
10-14-2008, 05:28 PM
Goddamn George W. Bush to hell for ruining this country. All our local restaurants are shutting down from rising costs, gas prices are through the roof, a napkin is worth more than the dollar, Wall Street is dragging us all down with it, and now we loose animal cookies.

What's next?

I'd say someone's gonna assassinate Santa Claus. I can't imagine that we're becoming a world where Childhood is only 3-4 years long, but it's a fact. Mickey Mouse is stuck doing preschooler schtick for 3-4 year olds with IQ's of 1-2 year olds.... Saturday Mornings are drying up and dying out... and kid's junk food is being pulled relentlessly off the shelves for Spongebob Raisins!

And yes, the economy is dog shite right now! OOoh! We have to cut the taxes to save small business... Yah huh! How come I've seen small business go belly up every other day? You'd at least think we'd get some sort of merger deal or something.

And wasn't Archway the manufacturers of a certain brand of cookie bearing the resemblance to 4 mutant superheroes which shall remain nameless?
Machias Banshee
10-14-2008, 06:37 PM
To Answer TMB: What worse could happen? Pepsi and Coca-Cola could merge into one disgusting conglomerate of energy drinks and flavored water. SODA IS ILLEGAL!



As for the cookies: This is sad, I remember my mom telling me about why the box always had that little string on it. It used to be that these cookies were usually given to children as Christmas cookies, and were hung in the Christmas tree for the kids to find.

All these things happening, my Childhood's starting to vanish before my eyes....
Sewer Bull
10-15-2008, 01:16 AM
Reading this thread made me shed some tears...

...of laughter.
Type 97 Chi-ha
10-15-2008, 01:55 AM
I don't think the economy or George Bush can be blamed for this after all:

http://minnieapolis.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/10/1978456-archway-cookies-business-crumbles-into-chapter-11-creative-bookkeeping-at-fault

And Archway maybe isn't doomed after all. Don't believe me? The candy company Fannie May almost died, but is revived and alive and well. (Not to be confused with the federal mortgage company.)
tOkKa
10-15-2008, 02:57 AM
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ThirdMarioBro
10-15-2008, 02:12 PM
All these things happening, my Childhood's starting to vanish before my eyes....

I'd say someone's gonna assassinate Santa Claus. I can't imagine that we're becoming a world where Childhood is only 3-4 years long, but it's a fact. Mickey Mouse is stuck doing preschooler schtick for 3-4 year olds with IQ's of 1-2 year olds.... Saturday Mornings are drying up and dying out... and kid's junk food is being pulled relentlessly off the shelves for Spongebob Raisins!


Remember the 90's folks. Hold them dear. Truly, we grew up during the last golden age for children.
Drtooth
10-15-2008, 04:45 PM
Remember the 90's folks. Hold them dear. Truly, we grew up during the last golden age for children.

I blame the laziness and apathy of our next sub-generation. And their idiot parents that form groups, instead of policing their own brats.

That said, as long as Nabisco still makes those Animal crackers in cardboard boxes with strings attached, there's still a faint glimmer of hope.
Peanut
10-15-2008, 09:02 PM
Are all of your adult lives so pathetic and un-fulfilling that you need to hang on to every single tiny thread of your childhood, or be washed away in a torrent of your own failure?

They're F*CKING COOKIES!
RAM BAM
10-15-2008, 09:47 PM
The rights to making the cookies might be picked up
by another manufacturer. A example of this is "Thrills" gum
is made by Regal Confectionaries, but it was originally
made by O-pee-chee which got swallowed up by Nestlé.
Storm Wolf
10-15-2008, 10:50 PM
Are all of your adult lives so pathetic and un-fulfilling that you need to hang on to every single tiny thread of your childhood, or be washed away in a torrent of your own failure?

They're F*CKING COOKIES!

Yeesh....have a bad day?

This topic was made to talk about cookies....thus we are doing that.

What's wrong with a bit of reminiscing about them? Doesn't mean were pathetic...I don't see anyone professing to end there life if the cookies will no longer be made.


Anywho....on the subject! I always loved the animal/circus cookies. I'm glad that this isn't the only factory that makes them.

Hey Machi! I faintly remember the boxes that had the string and circus pattern! I think they had wheels on the box too.
Peanut
10-15-2008, 10:52 PM
Yeesh....have a bad day?

This topic was made to talk about cookies....thus we are doing that.

What's wrong with a bit of reminiscing about them? Doesn't mean were pathetic...I don't see anyone professing to end there life if the cookies will no longer be made.

There are people who frequent these forums who feel every slight against their "childhood" is an affront to God. I'm just saying...they're f*cking cookies.
Machias Banshee
10-15-2008, 10:53 PM
Anywho....on the subject! I always loved the animal/circus cookies. I'm glad that this isn't the only factory that makes them.

Hey Machi! I faintly remember the boxes that had the string and circus pattern! I think they had wheels on the box too.


I think so... my mom used to get those for my brothers back then.

It'd be nice if someone took up the mantle of making the cookies. I'd love to keep that lil tradition going... :)
Voltron
10-16-2008, 07:23 PM
This easily overshadows minor things like the Holocaust and the cancellation of Beakman's World. At least there is one glimmer of hope left. . .

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/gun_bullet-thumb.jpg

I'll see you on the other side. . .