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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:44 PM Original message |
Archway Cookies Closes Ashland Plant (MI & OH) |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. How could Archway cookies be doing so poorly, they of the chewy molasses |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Nobody has the $$ to buy things like cookies anymore. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Maybe. Maybe people are cutting back on "extras" like treats. Not me, of course, because |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. People buy organic, low sugar |
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Kittycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. We're the same way here. However... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Oh, me too |
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llmart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #10 |
48. Well, I beg to differ with you..... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #48 |
58. 23% over 60 have diabetes |
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llmart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 09:33 PM Response to Reply #58 |
64. No, but I sure do my part... |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
37. my fav are the rasberry filled |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:45 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Coconut Macaroons... |
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tanglefoot (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
46. Molasses are my favorite Archway cookie - no one does them better |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
56. You are right. Those are the best packaged cookies. |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. They were bucket #1 in Bozo's Grand Prize Game! |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. Those cookies are an upper Midwest tradition...their soft molasses cookies are without peer n/t |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. I haven't bought ready-made cookies more than once or twice in the last, |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I know of many people working 2-3 jobs |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Well, if more people cooked from scratch they might not have so much |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. Financial Pressure? |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:07 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. People who have suffered job loss are the very ones who HAVE THE TIME |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. You missed my point, entirely. |
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llmart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #31 |
51. Don't be too hard on kestral..... |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I'm not being too hard on kestral.... |
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llmart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 09:35 PM Response to Reply #53 |
65. I do agree with that..... |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 08:19 AM Response to Reply #65 |
76. Unfortunately, |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 08:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
77. While I agree that homemade cookies taste better, Archway also sold |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
8. Freaking high-priced yuppie cookies! |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Yeah, screw those losing their jobs. n/t |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Well, yacht makers suffer during depressions. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:44 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. "Yuppie Republican cookies" |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:24 PM Response to Reply #39 |
68. I hate American corporate bastard manufacturers. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:29 PM Response to Reply #68 |
70. I hate American corporate bastard manufacturers, as well |
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ChromeFoundry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Oh, OK... |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
49. equating yachts to cookies? |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:25 PM Response to Reply #49 |
69. Yes, yachts are cookies. So are SUV's. |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:18 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. Wanting Archway cookies |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 06:55 AM Response to Reply #69 |
73. We must give up the dream of cookies |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 08:15 AM Response to Reply #69 |
75. Having an Archway cookie once in a while |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 07:39 PM Response to Reply #34 |
62. Archway? Expensive Yuppie Republican cookies? WTF? |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Archway cookies were yuppie cookies? No way. We used to get them and we lived on a farm and my mom |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Oh my God,what are sour cream sugar cookies? |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. THESE are them! Copy the recipe! |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 05:19 PM Response to Reply #29 |
59. Thanks tom! I'm going to try them this weekend. nt |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. "Yuppie cookies"?? "Expensive rich man's toys"? |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. "Higher priced" means unaffordable. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. "rich man's elitist Yuppie Republican scum bastard cookies." |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:48 PM Response to Reply #30 |
55. Just think.... |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Surely.... |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I can't afford your expensive sarcasm tag eitner! |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I'll tell you a secret... |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. You are obviously a Republican tool! |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
52. why do you hate America? |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
33. Yuppie cookies? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
47. If you didn't spend all your time posting on DU you'd have TIME to bake cookies. |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. you hit the nail on the he's |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 09:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
63. You have no idea what you're talking about, but then, ideology makes such a thing unnecessary n/t |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. Maybe they are going to make them in China where it is cheaper to get the protein content up. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Maybe they can't compete with food made in China |
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Nambe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
18. My father called me ¨cookie¨ until the day he died. |
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Tab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
19. Nothing worse than a rock-hard Archway cookie |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
38. Oh, you just had to dip them in milk. |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
20. American cookie industry going overseas, but will Ohio voters see the light |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:17 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Already kicked out Taft & DeWine.... |
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Castleman (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Archway, who cares, but they own MOTHER'S |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Oh!!! I love Mother's cookies but did not recognize the name Archway. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 09:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
67. Just have China add some melanine to them for extra protein. (snark) |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. I don't think anyone else makes almond Windmills..... |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
32. Owned by private equity firm |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
44. OH GEE! |
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Azlady (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
45. more job loss ... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
50. Shit shit shit shit shit |
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PfcHammer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
57. All your cookie are belong to us |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
60. So how was this bailout supposed to help? |
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mizzuzmojorizin (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
61. Man, that really sucks. Please tell me the company isn't moving to China or Mexico! |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
66. Archway sells to Target down here in south Texas. |
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OakCliffDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
72. Kick |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
74. First they came for the cookies, and I said nothing... |
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