Ginnybakes now in snack basket, issues "exclusive cookie" press release & retracts it
Jun 4, 2015, 4:10 pm
#16
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The gluten-free fad is 19 parts fad and 1 part celiac disease. I'm probably insufficiently cynical in my estimation.
It's remarkable that this cookie managed to combine every imaginable "foodie" fad known to the scientifically-illiterate American upper-middle class: organic, non-GMO, vegan, and, of course, gluten-free.
Jun 4, 2015, 5:09 pm
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This news is incredibly sad. That LAST thing I want is for AA to go out of their way to cater to such extreme food fads. A cookie has gluten and/or animal fats in it. It's not a cookie without those things, it's a granola bar or whatever else you want to call it.
Jun 4, 2015, 5:20 pm
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Jun 4, 2015, 5:24 pm
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Normal oatmeal cookies have flour, butter and eggs.
Jun 4, 2015, 5:24 pm
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Not quite. They missed paleo, raw, kale, phytochemical, and micronutrient. Probably others as well.
Jun 4, 2015, 5:40 pm
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I'd hope not.
Surely there must be some sort of error of omission in the ginnybakes press release.
What I am thinking they meant to say was that it has been "chosen as the exclusive [branded] cookie to be featured [in addition to the regular ones]."
No?
Surely there must be some sort of error of omission in the ginnybakes press release.
What I am thinking they meant to say was that it has been "chosen as the exclusive [branded] cookie to be featured [in addition to the regular ones]."
No?
Jun 4, 2015, 5:51 pm
#22
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Let's just hope some of that coconut is in the form of coconut oil (yet another fad, so maybe?).
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Jun 4, 2015, 6:33 pm
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You're 100% right to read it that way, they wrongly stated what they did
Jun 4, 2015, 6:36 pm
#24
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According to the twitter team, these will be part of the snack basket, and, as earlier stated, not replacing the "warmed on board" cookie.
Jun 4, 2015, 6:45 pm
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Full disclosure: I'm a nutritionist.
Sounds like a lot of money is being spent without bringing us back the tasty cookies.
Sounds like a lot of money is being spent without bringing us back the tasty cookies.
Jun 4, 2015, 6:48 pm
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Had them last night from PVD-DCA. Indeed, they are in the snack basket. Milanos are gone. I'm really going to miss those Pepperidge Farm cookies.
Jun 4, 2015, 6:56 pm
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Thanks god. I thought I was going to have to start flying UA again. The smell of the baking cookies in F was one of the few things I always thought AA did right.
Jun 4, 2015, 7:02 pm
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I can deal with them in the snack basket as an option. This makes sense. And, I agree: this gluten-free nonsense is getting ridiculous. Just like the death of my beloved honey-roasted peanuts in Y (at least WN still "gets it").
Jun 4, 2015, 7:04 pm
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Jun 4, 2015, 7:50 pm
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