Gary appears to have read the joshing around and responded yesterday in another blog entry emphasizing that the point is not the cookie itself but the fact that AA was paying attention to the cookie and peoples' reaction to it and are working to improve 'soft product.'

Personally, I think that's silly. Airlines are always tinkering with offerings. Sometimes a cookie is just a cookie.

To me the funny thing is how into the minutia some of us get and how much some of us read into it. I seem to recall it being the end of the world when some airline or another went from two to one olives on their salads in domestic F.

And, of course, the whole cold nuts disaster that occurs from time to time.

But here is the thing: how many of us would have a cookie after lunch unless we were on an airplane? 300 or so empty calories?

I almost never get the cookie or the sundae on a plane ("I stopped accepting them," so to speak).

I prefer to get my empty calories from inflight alcohol!