Chocolate-Covered Shortbread: NO
(Day Forty-Five)
Me: "I wish we had cookies at home. Also I wish you could make only 10 cookies at a time. I guess you could cut the ingredients."
Michael: "That's why you buy those blocks of cookies and break some off."
Me: "Those aren't as good as homemade ones. Anyway we don't have those, EITHER. We have NOTHING."
Michael: "We have Trefoils."
Me: "Those aren't the same as chocolate chip cookies. Whenever I say 'cookies' I really mean 'chocolate chip cookies.'"
Michael: "You could put the Trefoils in the microwave with chocolate chips on top."
Me: "No."
Michael: "No?"
Me: "That's not the same at all."
Michael: "What if you dip a Trefoil in chocolate?"
Me: "Listen. Shortbread and chocolate don't go together."
Michael: "I think you're not giving it a chance."
Me: "I've GIVEN it a chance. I've had shortbread and chocolate before. It's not good. Shortbread is something completely different for a different purpose. This is the problem -- with shortbread you get, like, this film of butter in between the shortbread and the chocolate. The chocolate doesn't get absorbed into the shortbread, so it's just like you're eating chocolate and you're eating shortbread separately. It's not like a chocolate chip cookie where the chocolate and the cookie all melt together and it's all chewy and delicious."
(Silence)
Me: "I don't feel like you're taking this seriously and honestly I feel a little disappointed in your cookie understanding."
(Silence)
Michael: "I think you have a topic for your blog post tonight."
Me: "I wish we had cookies at home. Also I wish you could make only 10 cookies at a time. I guess you could cut the ingredients."
Michael: "That's why you buy those blocks of cookies and break some off."
Me: "Those aren't as good as homemade ones. Anyway we don't have those, EITHER. We have NOTHING."
Michael: "We have Trefoils."
Me: "Those aren't the same as chocolate chip cookies. Whenever I say 'cookies' I really mean 'chocolate chip cookies.'"
Michael: "You could put the Trefoils in the microwave with chocolate chips on top."
Me: "No."
Michael: "No?"
Me: "That's not the same at all."
Michael: "What if you dip a Trefoil in chocolate?"
Me: "Listen. Shortbread and chocolate don't go together."
Michael: "I think you're not giving it a chance."
Me: "I've GIVEN it a chance. I've had shortbread and chocolate before. It's not good. Shortbread is something completely different for a different purpose. This is the problem -- with shortbread you get, like, this film of butter in between the shortbread and the chocolate. The chocolate doesn't get absorbed into the shortbread, so it's just like you're eating chocolate and you're eating shortbread separately. It's not like a chocolate chip cookie where the chocolate and the cookie all melt together and it's all chewy and delicious."
(Silence)
Me: "I don't feel like you're taking this seriously and honestly I feel a little disappointed in your cookie understanding."
(Silence)
Michael: "I think you have a topic for your blog post tonight."