What's your favorite cookie?

 # Fun Facts About Cookies



Here are some interesting facts about cookies:


1. The word "cookie" comes from the Dutch word "koekje," meaning "little cake." Dutch bakers used to test oven temperatures with small amounts of batter before baking a full cake.


2. The chocolate chip cookie was invented by accident in 1930 by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. She expected the chocolate pieces to melt completely, but they retained their shape, creating the first chocolate chip cookies.


3. The world's largest cookie was a chocolate chip cookie made in 2003 by the Immaculate Baking Company. It weighed 40,000 pounds and had a diameter of 101 feet.


4. Fortune cookies aren't actually Chinese in origin. They were likely invented by Japanese immigrants in California in the early 1900s before becoming associated with Chinese restaurants in America.


5. The average American eats around 300 cookies per year, or about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.


6. December 4th is National Cookie Day in the United States.


7. Girl Scout Cookies started in 1917 when a troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies to sell as a fundraiser. Now, they sell about 200 million boxes annually.


8. Web cookies, the data files stored by websites on your computer, were named after "magic cookies" in computing, which in turn were named after fortune cookies because they contained hidden information.


9. Oreo, introduced in 1912, is the world's best-selling cookie with over 40 billion cookies produced annually.


10. The most expensive cookie ever sold was a cookie that traveled on the Gemini 3 space mission in 1965. It was sold at auction for $14,000.


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