Margee in Missouri, who does not like to share her cookie dough, thought she’d found the one place in the fridge her kids wouldn’t think to look — inside the salad spinner. (“Apparently I underestimated my daughter,” she says.)
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#1
oaklandcat
+10 to the daughter for using “you’re” correctly.
Sep 5, 2012 at 12:42 am rating: 146
#2
Rob
+1 for the educational system wherever this kid is from in Missouri!
Sep 5, 2012 at 12:42 am rating: 18
#3
Zee
Enjoy your salmonella?
Sep 5, 2012 at 1:32 am rating: 7
#4
Joanne M.
Doesn’t the child understand that her mother was trying to save her from the clogged arteries of trans fatty acid consumption?!?
Sep 5, 2012 at 2:48 am rating: 9
#5
LJ
Call me an ignorant Aussie, but am I to understand that in USA people eat cookie dough as dough? Or you bake it first and then eat it?
Sep 5, 2012 at 4:35 am rating: 16
#6
bitchy the dwarf
yup, we sometimes eat it straight out of the package
Sep 5, 2012 at 4:42 am rating: 4
#7
ANkh
Where do you think the term “As American as eating technically inedible raw cookie dough” came from?
Sep 5, 2012 at 4:48 am rating: 60
#8
spoko
I don’t understand people who think eating raw cookie dough is dangerous. EVERYONE does it, and I have yet to meet anyone who’s come down with salmonella from it. Sure, it’s possible, but I prefer to consider the actual odds. And the odds are heavily on the side of dough-eaters like myself.
That said, I would never buy cookie dough. Takes like 10 minutes to make a double batch, then just throw that in the fridge. But leave it out on the counter for a couple of hours, so it stays nice and soft while you have your first six or eight or twelve bites. Mmmmmm . . . cookie dough.
Sep 5, 2012 at 6:50 am rating: 43
#9
Tammy
Clever would have been surrounding the dough with romaine leaves…….don’t ask me how I know these tricks.
Sep 5, 2012 at 7:39 am rating: 60
#10
Ely North
She really needs to hide raw cookie dough? It says right on the package not to eat it raw. Gross. Teach your kids to bake, lady! Maybe they’ll surprise you with some cookies and you won’t have to Bogart all the dough.
Sep 5, 2012 at 8:45 am rating: 4
#11
Sal
All you people saying you shouldn’t eat raw cookie dough can go suck an egg.
I suppose you’re that overly cautious in all aspects of your life?
Hell, when I was a lad I’d eat four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.
Sep 5, 2012 at 9:41 am rating: 43
#12
valleycat1
Another cookie-dough eater here. And cake batter bowl taster. And eater of runny soft-boiled eggs. Never made ill by any of this.
As long as the dough/batter/eggs haven’t been sitting out at room temp for a long time, there’s no bigger risk than, as mentioned above, using mayo on your sandwich or in your potato salad.
Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 am rating: 14
#13
Karen
While I agree that homemade cookie dough is much better, store bought can do the trick if you’re having a craving and don’t have time to make it yourself. I applaude the daughter for sniffing it out. I’m so proud of her!
Sep 5, 2012 at 9:49 am rating: 5
#14
shwo!
Dear daughter,
You think you’re so skinny don’t you?
Sep 5, 2012 at 9:58 am rating: 14
#15
AP
Remember the 2009 Nestle Toll House Raw Cookie Dough salmonella outbreak?
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/news/20111209/raw-cookie-dough-ready-to-bake-not-ready-to-eat
Just don’t eat it.
Sep 5, 2012 at 10:06 am rating: 1
#16
J
Why don’t people just skip putting raw eggs in the cookie dough they plan to eat raw? I think that will solve the problem. Of course, nobody ever “plans” to eat it raw
To LJ, Americans eat the dough in both forms — baked and raw. Both forms are delicious, but raw dough is in a class by itself. I’ve only tried raw chocolate chip cookie dough, but it is amazing…
Sep 5, 2012 at 11:25 am rating: 6
#17
KH
Hahaha! This made my morning.
Sep 5, 2012 at 2:50 pm rating: 2
#18
deprogrammed
OK, young snark I can appreciate.
Sep 5, 2012 at 5:22 pm rating: 4
#19
ansco
weird, just simply weird. I am willing to say that is part of why America has an obesity issue.
Sep 5, 2012 at 7:49 pm rating: 6
#20
juju_skittles
I love this kid! I can just see her sitting in the swivel chair, cat on her lap, stroking it, staring down her mother. “So, Mother. We meet again. Are you prepared to give up the hiding place of the other delicious snack treats?” The kid’s eyes narrow. “The dog is wired to explode. All I have to do is press this button…” Of course my imagination could be running away with me.
Sep 5, 2012 at 11:38 pm rating: 33
#21
Jodi Rives
All the words spelled correctly and correct usage of “you’re”? No young American person wrote this.
Sep 6, 2012 at 12:33 am rating: 1
#22
Delurks
My mom got salmonella from cookie dough once. Didn’t stop me.
Sep 6, 2012 at 12:49 pm rating: 3
#23
K
Clue #1 is: why would anyone put a salad spinner in the fridge? It doesn’t do any good there.
Sep 6, 2012 at 3:58 pm rating: 6
#24
goose
I was once told by a professional chef that sugar will sterilize an egg when added in sufficient amounts. That’s why Orange Julius hasn’t been sued to the moon yet. That not only made me eat it raw, but I even enjoyed it. It was only the chocolate allergy that made me stop attacking the brownie batter before it went into the oven. Carob has literally stopped me from committing felonious assaults more than once.
As for her grammar, it makes me a little weepy to see correct usage for a change. I’m a writing tutor, I’ve seen all ages and grades miff up the basics. A little of me dies sometimes.
Sep 7, 2012 at 8:20 am rating: 2
#25
Jenny
Margee, your daughter is much smarter than we were! (And not just because of her excellent grammar.)
My parents told us last year (I’m 34!) that our ENTIRE CHILDHOOD they had kept chocolate, cookie dough, and mini Snickers (their own guilty pleasures) in the one of the vegetable drawers. There are four of us, and though when we were all teenagers we were constantly scrounging for snacks (and sugar wasn’t generally allowed in our house, so we were extra gung ho for it), not a single one of us ever discovered it.
Thanks for the laugh!
Sep 7, 2012 at 12:31 pm rating: 9
#26
Robin
The correct way to eat raw cookie dough is to take a bite, then drink a swig of hard alcohol to kill the germs.
Sep 9, 2012 at 4:13 pm rating: 12
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