October 9, 2008
Mother's R.I.P.
With great dismay, we read this morning that the company that makes Mother's Oatmeal Cookies has ceased operations. The venerable, formerly Oakland-based baker, Archway & Mother's Company, has a forlorn picture of an empty plate on the front page of its website. "Pardon our Crumbs..." reads the text below the image, "We are only 1/2 baked..."
But wait! There's a link for "Employment Opportunities"! We didn't click... it's just too sad.
When we attended last week's Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board meeting at the "Caltrain brain" in San Carlos, we felt somewhat in the grips of an unfeeling state bureaucracy... until we saw the plate of Mother's oatmeal cookies thoughtfully provided for our refreshment (see photo).
Oh, the PCJPB also treated us to the promise of more bike capacity on Caltrain. Or rather, the promise of looking into more bike capacity.
We plan to stop by the large corporate supermarket on the way home from work today and buy up as many packs as we can -- they'll keep. And we must admit that we prefer them somewhat stale: our traditional procedure is to open the pack and leave it to air out for a painful, tempting day or two before madly scarfing the softened cookies, a whole rack at a time.
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yes Jon, that was good (JPB that is) but we must keep pressing them...
this is horrible news.
Oh noes. No more Cookie Parade? No more Circus Animals? This is a sad day, indeed.
Hurry, buy your last bags now, then sell them at triple the price on ebay.
Aw, man. they made great baseball cards.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo.
these are the guys who made the Windmill style almond cookies too, right? I've had fond memories of having them even as a kid, (feels like) 100 years ago.
no more delicious frosted circus animals?!
I still remember the baseball cards they would make for those giveaways at the Giants games. Those were fun times.
@ malcove: Yes, the same company makes/made Archway and Mother's.
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I just had some circus animals last weekend. *sighz*
I'm with Troy and Akit: definitely the baseball cards.
Why does the world seem to suck more and more with each passing day?
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No! I love Frosted Oatmeal stale! This is a travesty.
This is just so depressing. This is the effect of corporate bullsnot on local institutions. Too bad the local lefties could give two sh*ts about this - they'd rather rail on conditions elsewhere and not give a crap about the workers at Mother's cookies.
Frak all of you who didn't care. and Frak all of you newcomer liberals who hate anything like Mother's Cookies. You all suck ass. Deny it only to soothe your conscience, enemies of cookies!
"Alas, poor Mothers Cookies! I knew them, Horatio: a cookie
of infinite deliciousness, of most excellent fancy: they hath
borne me on their back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those drips of icing that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your crumbs now? your
chips? your fillings? your flashes of tastiness,
that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Cookie Monster is gonna be PISSED
oh no a part of me just died. i heard this on npr this morning (even though i'm temporarily living in LA). when i get back to the bay area so much will have changed. no one understands the love for mother's cookies like a bay native.
and LOL at xenu (16)
Maybe someone local will buy the recipes and equipment at auction? The company was sold to some private equity firm, surely they would like to get at least a little bit of cash for the assets.
I just bought the last bag of Circus Animals and the last two bags of Cookie Parade for sale at the Church and Market Safeway. I'm going to guard them with my life...