Who misses the freshly baked AA cookies
May 16, 2021, 6:25 am
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May 16, 2021, 8:01 am
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May 16, 2021, 8:45 am
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I could never understand why they didn't bake loads more and walk a tray through Y and sell them for $1 or so. Easy supplemental revenue.
May 16, 2021, 8:58 am
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My guess would be from a volume point of view, there just wouldn't be enough oven space on domestic planes to bake enough cookies to make it worthwhile, but I'm not really sure.
May 16, 2021, 9:05 am
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May 16, 2021, 9:09 am
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Not the cookie but Dollar General, of all places, has a bag of nuts for $1.25 that while not warm rivals the nut mix AA used to have in F/J. I take them along to add to my sandwich.
Now my advise if you go to Dollar General go there as soon as the place opens. If you go in there during the afternoon or evening it might be a 45 minute check out. Always some 90 year old with coupons galore that argues with the cashier over the price of every item.
Now my advise if you go to Dollar General go there as soon as the place opens. If you go in there during the afternoon or evening it might be a 45 minute check out. Always some 90 year old with coupons galore that argues with the cashier over the price of every item.
May 16, 2021, 9:23 am
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May 16, 2021, 10:52 am
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I can't imagine any domestic FA's making, "freshly baked cookies."
May 16, 2021, 10:56 am
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They re-heated them in the ovens just like they do (did, sorry) the nuts.
May 16, 2021, 10:57 am
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So, they weren't "from scratch", but they were freshly baked.
May 16, 2021, 10:58 am
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May 16, 2021, 10:58 am
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Thanks. So nothing, "fresh," about it then. I think some school kids sell raw cookie dough to make cookies (not quite Pillsbury), and I've seen it in the supermarket. But still nothing fresh about those either.
May 16, 2021, 11:03 am
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I had no idea. I just thought the source of the lovely smell was the reheating not actual baking. Ahh...the smells we miss from the F cabins....the nuts, cookies, meals etc. When I would sit in row 1 I would watch the timer on the oven count down from 13 minutes for those nuts. Such a dork.