Kitchen

[Mistreatedbycs]

Up until 3 years ago, I never tasted what I gave away. Nothing home baked but let's say cookies from a famous local bakery, English muffins from Wolfermann's, cookies from Cheryl's and the list goes on and on.

What changed my thought process that maybe I need to sample these items before I give them was a beautiful cookie tray from a local bakery and my eyes were just attracted to them, you know that taste with your eyes, the cookies were terrible! Seriously, they were all candidates for the trash. So I learned from that and recently I bought the Cheryl's gift tins for my customers and thought, I've had these before, do I really want to use my WW points for one cookie, well, maybe with a cup of coffee I'll have a half, yes, a half will do, so I picked that one with the white buttercream frosting and got my knife out, planned for 3 points, I think I was quite generous with the points for a half cookie and then the knife went in and the cookie cracked, first the frosting and then the cookie, I thought WHAT! How could this happen, they are not cold, I just got them, it's a Holiday package, when in the heck did they bake these, and everything else running through my mind and thinking, now what? I certainly can't give these to my customers, what would they say that they bite into these cookies and it's hard and crumbled, must of baked them over the 4th of July or maybe last year for Christmas.

Needless to say, a phone call to the Q, no problem, an e-mail to Cheryl's that they were going to forward to marketing, why marketing, I have no idea but overall, thank goodness I tried them BEFORE I gave them away as a customer appreciation or I would of been embarrassed incase someone who of said, boy, those cookies were lousy.

Onward to Plan b and think of something else but I've learned my lesson, taste before you give and not the one you're giving (at least I hope not).