If you cook those cookie's, don't sell it.....

[California]

Funny story - my aunt in Berkeley California told me the parents could no longer take home-cooked food to the annual PTA fundraiser by order of the Berkeley City Council. (A known bunch of lunatics -but wait):

This ordinance was passed after mass food poisoning at a similar event. It really was a public safety measure.

 

[teejk]

Funny story - my aunt in Berkeley California told me the parents could no longer take home-cooked food to the annual PTA fundraiser by order of the Berkeley City Council. (A known bunch of lunatics -but wait):

This ordinance was passed after mass food poisoning at a similar event. It really was a public safety measure.

I understand that entirely when it comes to canned foods and such where the instructions were ignored (they are spelled out in most recipes and tend to err on the side of caution with result of lessening the flavor and nutrition, not unlike newer slow cookers)...but a common cookie?

 

[California]

You ever been to a Unitarian Potluck?

(Insider joke).

Essentially some people try to bring more exotic stuff than anyone else. Maybe Reindeer or Llama meat, fried insects, poi, whatever they can use as the basis for boasting about exotic travel. I expect a potluck in Berkeley, even a public schools benefit, would be similar.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

You ever been to a Unitarian Potluck?

(Insider joke).

Essentially some people try to being more exotic stuff than anyone else. Maybe Reindeer or Llama meat, fried insects, poi, whatever they can use as the basis for boasting about exotic travel. I expect a potluck in Berkeley, even a public schools benefit, would be similar.

Oh man. I once went to a Unitarian function with my sister and her family (it was potluck). I remember thinking to myself, "what's with all the random food?"! That's hilarious! I never knew that was a Unitarian propensity.

 

[teejk]

You ever been to a Unitarian Potluck?

(Insider joke).

Essentially some people try to being more exotic stuff than anyone else. Maybe Reindeer or Llama meat, fried insects, poi, whatever they can use as the basis for boasting about exotic travel. I expect a potluck in Berkeley, even a public schools benefit, would be similar.

Andrew Zimmern has a whole show on that stuff...not for me but I've never been much on the newer peppers that make my head explode nor a fan of the once fad of gut-wrenching horseradish concoctions nor do I bother with the various mushrooms growing wild in my yard. We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

 

[prichard]

From the title I thought you were talking about "special" cookies.

 

[PILOON]

We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

Berkeley cookies=====LOL

What I refer to is some gal that uses maybe rancid lard or fruit that she scraped the mold off of or meat pies that she peeled off the green stuff and just recently maybe used up that flour that has a listeria recall, shucks after all you can't waste food that you paid good $$s for. Shucks it was cooked, was it not and heat kills germs???
Not everybody, but some think like that.
Nah, I'll stick to store bought or what my wife cooks.

 

[teejk]

We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

Berkeley cookies=====LOL

What I refer to is some gal that uses maybe rancid lard or fruit that she scraped the mold off of or meat pies that she peeled off the green stuff and just recently maybe used up that flour that has a listeria recall, shucks after all you can't waste food that you paid good $$s for. Shucks it was cooked, was it not and heat kills germs???
Not everybody, but some think like that.
Nah, I'll stick to store bought or what my wife cooks.

I think you are describing people that went through the Great depression era...these days those cookies are likely baked in over-priced Viking ovens using over-priced Williams Sonoma cookware...and the baker probably sanitized her/his hands and prep areas several times. All that said...do you ever wonder what happens to your food in a restaurant where you can't monitor the "10 second rule"?

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Andrew Zimmern has a whole show on that stuff...not for me but I've never been much on the newer peppers that make my head explode nor a fan of the once fad of gut-wrenching horseradish concoctions nor do I bother with the various mushrooms growing wild in my yard. We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

You make that sound like it's a bad thing...:licking:

 

[Oldpath05]

Whenever I go to potluck, I always ask my wife what'd she bring and that's what I have. As far home cooking cookies, anyone could get a bad batch of eggs or something and not know it, if eggs go bad, bad food can come from big companies also. In Me. we have state inspectors that go around annually to home base cookie cookers, small home style restaurants, donut makers and dairy farms that sell whole milk......me, I like the home cooked donuts vs prefab Dunkin Donuts.