[dragonfly1234]

I love to bake during the holiday season but I never really looked at the history or trivia about cookies. What is your little tid bit or trivia on cookies?

Here is my little tid bit that I had no idea about. I must say it is my dh's and my dads favorite cookie.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

The original chocolate chip cookie, the Toll House Cookie, was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the 1930s. Ruth and her husband Kenneth owned the Toll House Inn, near Whitman, Massachusetts. Ruth cooked for her guests, and one day had to substitute semi-sweet chocolate for baker's chocolate in a cookie recipe. She chopped the chocolate in bits, but when she took the cookies from the oven, the semi-sweet chocolate had not melted into the dough as the baker's chocolate had. These cookies with chocolate 'chips' became an immediate hit with her guests.

The official state cookie of Massachusetts is the chocolate chip cookie, invented in 1930 at the Toll House Restaurant.

On February 7, 2001, the Chocolate Chip Cookie was declared the official cookie of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

[Withay]

Just found this tidbit on the origin of the name cookie.

Its name derives from the Dutch word koekje or (informal) koekie which means little cake, and arrived in the English language through the Dutch in North America. It spread from American English to British English where biscuit is still the more general term.

[dragonfly1234]

Another little tid bit trivia about cookies(chocolate).....

In the Western world, the average annual consumption of chocolate is 12 pounds per person.

And how about trivia on Oreo cookies.....

The 345 billion Oreo cookies sold to date would fill up the world's largest freight train, consisting of 660 freight cars, more than 45 times.