Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Chocolate chip cookies today.  I feel like it's so hard to find a really good one.  I swear, I haven't had a really good chocolate chip cookie in 30 years.  Mrs. Fields' semi-sweet used to be my favorite as a kid, but they started to slip around 2000 or so.  They suck today.  And it's not just me--they used to be mom's favorite when I was a kid, too, and now she doesn't like 'em, either.  They really went downhill.

When my parents were young and dating, they used to go to the Famous Amos store.  This was back when Famous Amos wasn't just a bag on the grocery store shelf, but they had a store where they baked 'em fresh.  It was a completely different kind of cookie than the grocery store ones.  Hearing my parents describe those... oh, sweet Celestia, they make it sound like an absolutely transcendent experience.  They say that those were the best cookies that have ever been, and nothing today can even remotely hold a candle.  The Famous Amos store hasn't existed for 40 years.  I hate that I never got to try those cookies.  Why can't they bring those back?  We can bring back dire wolves (I guess?  Apparently?), but we can't bring back those cookies?? 

The best cookies I can find today are just... okay.  I mean, good, but nothing to write home about.  Nothing like decades ago.  Has every baker in the world just forgotten how to make good chocolate chip cookies??!