Cookie Quiz - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Hydrox. The original cream-filled, chocolate cookie debuted in 1908, four years before the omnipresent Oreo.
• A2) Ronald Reagan. The company provided 180 of their chocolate chunk variety every week. The Gipper also had a sweet tooth for jelly beans, passing them out during Cabinet meetings. Jelly Belly created their blueberry flavor specially for his 1981 inauguration.
• A3) Massachusetts. Ruth Graves Wakefield first added chocolate bits to her butter drop cookie dough at the Toll House Inn in Whitman in the 1930s (some sources say 1937 and others say 1933).
• A4) Nutter Butter. Introduced by Nabisco in 1969, the cookies have been made with Planters peanuts since the companies merged in 1981.
• A5) Famous Amos. Wally Amos changed professions in 1975, opening up his first cookies store in Los Angeles, California.
• A6) Mrs. Fields. Debbi Fields opened up her business to franchisees in 1990, but struggled when the economy turned bad the following decade.
• A7) Cinna-spins. The miniature cinnamon rolls joined the popular Thin Mints and Samoas and the less popular Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Trefoils, All Abouts, and Lemon Chalet Cremes.
• A8) Snackwells. The lineup includes Devil's Food Fat Free, Lemon Creme Sugar Free, and Shortbread Sugar Free. By comparison, Nabisco's Cameo cookies weigh in at 130 calories (45 from fat) per serving while the comparable Snackwells Creme variety has 110 calories (27 from fat). Of course, as with most cookies, neither has any nutritional value to speak of. For the last few years, even the notorious Cookie Monster has realized that cookies are a "sometimes food".
• A9) Keebler. Chips Deluxe, E.L. Fudge, Fudge Shoppe, Sandies, Vanilla Wafers, Vienna Fingers cookies are all made by the U.S. company, which also bought out Famous Amos in 1999.
• A10) Pepperidge Farm. The company, named for Margaret Rudkin's home in Fairfield, Connecticut, also bakes the geographically named Bordeaux, Brussels, Geneva, Milano, Montieri, Tahiti, and Verona varieties.
• A11) CVS. The "Gold Emblem" also adorns boxes of chocolate chip macadamia, peanut butter (currently on my desk), raspberry creme shortbread, and fudge creme (my favorite) cookies.
• A12) False. The fig cookies were invented in 1891 by Charles M. Roser of the Kennedy Biscuit Company in Massachusetts and named for the local town, as was the company's convention.