Mother’s Cookies are no more
Posted Oct 9th 2008 11:31AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Bakeries, Food News When I think of Mother’s Cookies, I immediately slip back into my childhood. I remember Sunday School snack, which often consisted of a tiny cup of grape juice and one or two of those pink and white frosted, animal shaped sugar cookies. During high school, my friends and I would often run to the dirty downtown Safeway for snacks to last us through play rehearsal and often, a bag of Mother’s Cookies would return to school with us.
As of this Monday, there will be no more fresh memories of Mother’s Cookies. The Oakland, CA-based company abruptly closed their doors and filed for bankruptcy protection, citing the rising costs of fuel and supplies as the reason. A number of people lost their jobs in the closing and the country lost an iconic cookie.
[b]I grew up very close to the Oakland cookie plant, I remember My Dad used to stop there,
they had a cookie shop right out in front of the place, we use to bring home brown bags with broken cookies
from their days production runs…
Dad always right up until the day he passed away, he kept a bag of Mothers animal cookies under his desk,
what great memories, darn this news of Mothers Cookies closing really bothers me…
My condolences to you and all the other “Mothers” aficionados who will now have to be satisfied with only their memories. If I were one of your cookie junkies, I’d be trying to get my hands on those recipes so I could replicate them in my own kitchen (Hint, hint).
I grew up in the Northwest and have fond memories of Mothers cookies, so I’m sad to hear they are another victim of our current economy. What I hadn’t thought of in years though were the frosted animal cookies. My mouth is watering just thinking about them.
Hey folks,
Pay some more attention to this. This is the Mother’s Cookies and Archway Cookies companies! Not only are we talking about the loss of their very good cookies but we are talking about the loss of an icon and thousands of jobs in the U.S.A. and Canada. Here’s an article about it:
Hmmm, The ONLY cookies I would buy. Bought a bag last Sunday, I wondered why the shelf space for Mothers cookies had dwindled so much. I guess I’m going to have to find a substitute, it’s not going to be easy. :sad:
The entire food industry is in the same position as Archway/Mothers. The media has done its job to run screaming the “the sky is falling, the sky is falling” in order to scare the pants off people, and has succeeded, causing many sectors to feel the pinch of reduced spending. I know a couple of restaurant owners who are beside themselves because of how many empty tables they see every day, and when they have a full house it’s because they have put a BOGO coupon in the local paper.
Despite what the media may try to convince you of, the average person is not an idiot. When times are stupid like they are right now, people pull in their discretionary spending and hunker down. No restaurants, no cookies, no wasted trips to the mall to just walk around, stay at home and bake bread and pastries which you’ve learned how to do from the Food Channel, all of which have an effect on businesses in your neighborhood. The grocer is now selling more staples, but not as much snack food. In my town the price of 87 octane is at $2.49 per gallon, down from $3.09 just last Friday morning. The hunker down tactic of preservation forced an increase in the supply, thus causing a reduction in price to dump the supply.
Businesses come and businesses go every day. The world will not stop just because Archway/Morther’s shuts down, and for all we know there may be a suitor in the wings ready to take over the brands and bring them back. Of course, the media would not let you know that even if they knew it to be fact, because the demise of a cookie company makes good news for them. I would not want to be part of an industry that thrives on misery.
This is terrible! Last week before leaving on our camping/fishing trip to the Sierras my wife picked up a couple of bags of Mothers Animal Crackers and Archway Windmill cookies. Had I known they were going to be our last I would not have eaten them so quickly. I hope they make a comeback.
And oh ya Mr. Dough-god, stop digressing unless it is into your kitchen to bake those sticky buns that by the way can be shipped next day to Yosemite…;)
And oh ya Mr. Dough-god, stop digressing unless it is into your kitchen to bake those sticky buns that by the way can be shipped next day to Yosemite…;)
From what I’ve read, Mother’s frosted animal cookies are nothing more than sugar cookies coated with white an pink confectioner’s sugar frosting. Perhaps some of you distraught junkies can get someone to try a copycat recipe to relieve your pain.
