COOKIE DUNKING REDUX
A comment by "An Undaunted Cookie Fan" got me thinking, there are a few variables I didn't quite factor into the cookie dunking scenario:
a) Can you dunk every kind of cookie, or just certain ones? There are Oreos, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, No Bakes, etc. etc. But are all these acceptable for dunking? Being a "no dunker" I can't say for sure.
b) How long do you dunk a cookie for? What is the average time for leaving a cookie in the milk? The longer it's left in there, the wetter and soggier it will be, it's texture changing by the second. I suppose this is likely a matter of personal preference more than an exact science.
Even if I knew the answers to these questions, it wouldn't change anything. This is Matt, "still not a cookie dunking fan," signing off.
DUNK ME
I've never understood peoples' fascination with dunking cookies in milk. I frown upon this practice for two reasons:
a) It makes the cookies all soggy. Why does anybody want to eat a soggy cookie? Don't confuse "soggy" with "soft," like soft Chips Ahoy, those are acceptable. Cookies are crunchy for a reason, let's keep them that way.
b) By dunking the cookies in the milk, you get crumbs in the milk. They all float around and contaminate it. Disgusting. Who wants to drink the milk after that?
This has been an exercise in "DO NOT DUNK YOUR COOKIES" with Matt MacDonald.
THE MAN RETURNS
Larry from Three's Company is on ER! Woohoo! Why that excites me so much I don't know.
2004 GRAMMY AWARD THOUGHTS
Yeah, I watched the Grammys last night (what else was I supposed to do? Alias wasn't on). My view:
THINGS I LIKED ON THE GRAMMYS
-Prince & Beyonce: Prince is an odd duck, but the man.
-The White Stripes: Pretty rockin'.
-The Funk montage.
-"Hey Ya": Can't get enough of that song.
-Andy Williams!! You're the man now dawg!
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE ON THE GRAMMYS
-Dave Matthews massacring the Beatles.
-Quentin Tarantino: His very existance irks me.
-Justin Timberlake's "apology": LET IT GO.
-Christina Aguilera's sappy "Beautiful" performance.
-The Parliament Funkadelic part of the Funk montage: Was it me, or did George Clinton seem drunk/sloppy/out of it?
-Carlos Santana's obvious favoritism for OutKast when presenting their award category: Dude! Have some respect!
-The technical gaffes: They had this show on a delay of five minutes and they couldn't edit that junk out??
-Richard Marx? Kenny Loggins?? Is this 1985???
Verdict: Pretty blah, like every Grammy Awards ever. They arbitrarily seem to hand out the awards, based on popularity and record sales. At least, for once the critics' pick and Grammy winner for Album of the Year was pretty similar, for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Amazing!
