On February 6, I posted about redeeming my building PokerStars frequent player points for one of the least likely items I expected to find, a basket of cookies. At the time, I chose to get the cookies mostly as a novelty. Why the hell would Poker Stars offer a gift basket of cookies to poker players? The connection makes little sense, other than the fact that we are generally sedentary fat asses (my rip bod not included); but even with that obscure connection, I still wondered why Stars would want to get involved with edibles. In other words, I had little expectation for cookies baked by a online poker site.
In a little under a week, the cookies arrived.
The cookies came in a wicket basket covered by two layers of cellophane. By the first evening, I opened the cellophane and surveyed the cookies. To my amazement, there were tons of different varieties, and I couldn’t identify most of them. There were a few that looked like classic chocolate chip cookies, but even those were weird. Most of them, on further inspection, actually contained nuts, but lord I couldn’t tell what type they were. All I know is that there were at least 3 types of cookies that appeared to be classic chocolate chips, but at least one was milk chocolate instead of the usual semi-sweet chocolate and the rest all had surprise nuts. Just plain odd. Here is a basket with at least 8 different types of cookies but no plain old choco chip. Nor was there a list or any other indications as to what type of cookies were in the basket.
All that said, the psuedo choco chip cookies were all great. Along wit the choco chip-alikes, there were peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies with white chocolate chips, a rocky-road chocolate cookie, a double chocolate cookie with nuts, oatmeal raisin cookies and a couple of other options. Understand these were at least 4 cookies of each type, so it was a cornucopia of cookies.
Amongst the many cookies I tried, all were fairly great, considering the source. The cookies were soft, but not too soft. I did not refrigerate the cookies, but rather kept them on the counter in tupperware. They stayed that semi-soft state for a good week before they started to harden, including a day and a half in which they were simply kept in the open air in the basket, once the cellophane was removed.
The cookies came with no nutritional info, which suits me fine since you can gain calories that you do not know about.* But if you are allergic to nuts, avoid this basket at all costs. Even if you can figure out which cookies contain nuts, all the cookies are co-mingled, so don’t complain to me if you eat a white choco chip sugar cookie without nuts and still die from the peanut dust from the nearby peanut butter cookies. In fact, if you die from anything, don’t call me. WHY WON’T YOU GHOSTS JUST LET ME SLEEP!
Hmm…does this post qualify for the No Poker Content warning? Hell, if you really cared about such things, you would’ve stop reading by now anyway.
Until next time, make mine poker!
* Other calories that do not count include free food and foods eaten while on vacation. Have at it, fatties!
March 4th, 2010 - 7:11 pm
That big pink one with the glasses looks disgusting. Stars shoulda thrown that one out.