[Mitch]

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Iowa cafe swamped with orders for "Obama cookie"   

Nov 28 02:25 PM US/Eastern
By AMY LORENTZEN
Associated Press Writer   
62 Comments                        

   DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing to the country?
Check out cookie sales at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moines.

Ever since word spread about the president-elect and his family's fondness for Baby Boomers' chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can't bake them fast enough.

"Two months ago I was giving these cookies away," said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. "Now, it's like 'I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.'"

The Obamas became frequent visitors to the cafe last summer when the Illinois senator devoted much of his time to Iowa, where the state's precinct caucuses kick off the presidential nominating process. Obama's main office was next door to Boomers, and his staff made the cafe a second home.

His daughters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, would stop by with their mother, Michelle, and Maxfield said they loved the cookies. During a stop in Iowa last month, Obama's staff ordered about a dozen cookies for the family. That's when word got out about their affection for the confection.

Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day.

"I think everybody just ... thought, 'Oh, great cookie, great president—the world is a happy place. Barack's going to fix all the problems and if I have a bite of this cookie it's going to make me feel good,'" Maxfield said.

[Arkcon]

The US seems to gravitate to snack foods of the President for some reason.  The assumption is generally that the loss of a monarch has resulted in a need for some sort of authority idolization.  At any rate, I'm glad Bush The 1st's fondness for pork rinds never caught on.

[enahs]

  At any rate, I'm glad Bush The 1st's fondness for pork rinds never caught on.

I hear pork rinds are top treats for people trying the low carb diet.

[Arkcon]

Granted, but the Atkins fad didn't really catch on until later.  Now, I do like my roast pork, with crispy skin.  But a bag of deep fried porcine skin only, now that's just taking the other, vegetable-based deep-fried snacks, to an obscene level.  IMHO.  YMMV.

[Donaldson Tan]

Muslims can't enjoy Bush's favourite snacks!

[Yggdrasil]

I'm now much more fond of pretzels because of George W Bush