Mother's Cookies are no more
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.
[via Married with Dinner]
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10-09-2008 @12:17PM Bkhuna said... Don't worry, millions of Americans can now waddle on down to their local Mega-lo-Mart and buy imported, poisoned, Chinese made cookies instead.
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10-09-2008 @1:03PM Amy Samida said... That's so sad. Those were great cookies, and I always thought they were too cheap. Wish they'd charged a little more for them, and stayed in business. I'm going to run out and buy a couple of bags just for old times sake!
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10-09-2008 @1:35PM Ben said... Let's bail them out!
I love those cookies.
Well, lovED.
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10-09-2008 @1:56PM Richard Ahlquist said... OMG NO! UGH the world will never be the same.
Mothers make your recipes OPEN SOURCE!
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10-09-2008 @2:12PM Michelle said... This is so sad, my mom use to buy the parade bag of cookies by them and put them in my lunch whenI was a kid. And the frosted animal cookies were my favorite.
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10-09-2008 @3:22PM Rt said... This is so sad. I never got to taste those cookies.
All I ever got was that crappie stuff my mother made (oatmeal with raisin, peanutbutter, etc.). I have the paper recipes somewhere if I decide I need to eat cookies again.
Oh wait.
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10-10-2008 @6:51AM kasey said... Awww, I have such fond memories of these cookies. They remind me of my childhood and my own mom since she would always be the one who would buy these cookies. I remember how she'd always bring them out with a flourish since the frosted Circus Animal cookies were an especially sweet treat and we'd dig into the bag together. :( *sigh* I'll miss these cookies very much.
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10-10-2008 @12:51PM Joshua said... I'm officially in mourning. Part of the healing process for me was designing this t-shirt honoring the legacy of the Original Circus Animal cookie:
http://www.clothmoth.net/collections/frontpage/products/motherscookies
Hope you enjoy, first 20 orders get an actual sealed bag of Mother's circus animal cookies, I ran out to the store last night in a frenzy and bought what I could find.
You'll be missed, Mother's!
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10-10-2008 @2:39PM Bear Silber said... Another one bites the dust. My family love these (I do too but rarely eat them). I love the Halloween black and orange colors.
That's too bad. Maybe they'll survive somehow or get bought out.
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10-13-2008 @12:46PM airwright said... This is deadly serious, im a mothers cookie addict and im really going to be hurten. I bought Mothers oakmeal, cookie parade, chocolate chip, and gouchos cookies this weekend.
Im seriously thinking of buying a garage freezer to store them in.
Im not the cookie monster, Im the cookie monsters worst nightmare.
Does anybody know if they will be bought up so they can continue?
singed Hurten in Lodi
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10-13-2008 @2:42PM Maverick said... This is ONE company that deserves a "bail out" from the government. Better yet - everyone write to Warren Buffet to save the day. I'm sure he grew up with these cookies too! I will not survive without my pink & white sprinkled animal cookies every night!
Mothers Cookies is "ALL AMERICAN"
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10-16-2008 @10:02AM Nick said... I worked for this company for 23 years and it took the investors to bring it down. It was a great company be for it was sold to this investors.
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10-15-2008 @2:22PM Suzi said... Well..the government bailed out bad financial institutions, why the heck can't they bail out an American icon? And it's probably not int he tens of billions! I want my Circus Animals!!!
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10-15-2008 @2:27PM Jay Ca$h said... I'm going to start hoarding these things like Elaine hoardes sponges on Seinfiled. The greatest gift is the lesson people.
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10-16-2008 @6:30AM Givra said... Gee, so nice to see that the first comment from Bkhuna is some random inane bashing. How wonderful of this drooling idiot to post such. Please, keep your political agenda to a politically based forum.
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10-16-2008 @6:38AM Doug said... Mothers was also in with Archway and Mrs. Allison's cookies - They all went out on Monday last week. Get your Archway cookies while you can - cause when they're gone, they're gone. This recession is impacting everyone, some folks just don't get it, buy American, Sell American, Help America!
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10-16-2008 @7:16AM Skimsoco76 said... I THINK MOST OF YOU GUYS ARE FULL OF CRAP! YOU KNOW DAMN WELL YOU HAVENT EATEN THESE NASTYASS WAX TASTING COOKIES COOKIES SINCE YOU WERE KIDS OR THEY'D STILL BE MAKIN THEM. AND AS FAR AS THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SNACK BS, YOU KNOW YOU SAID THANKS BUT NO THANKS I ALREADY HAVE COTTON MOUTH JUST LIKE THE REST OF US NORMAL PEOPLE DID!
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10-16-2008 @7:55AM jerr said... AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHUCKS!! this is a bit of American History and traditon that is going away. Mothers made decent oatmeal cookies too. so sad.
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10-16-2008 @7:55AM Ali said... Never heard of them...
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10-16-2008 @8:04AM Diane said... they could team up with retro snacks sold!!!
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