Oh the humanity! 😄😄😄

Dont be so fussy.

Maybe Mtn. could use them. She couldn't find stale breadsticks.

What's with the older generation--My Mother in Law has the same philosophy about cookies to keep them forever. Extra points if the pkg. has been opened. Were you also frowned on for taking away unsafe expired items?

Still sad they were discontinuedI

Funny!

That's a new one for me. "Looks stale"? What does that look like? Broken? Proof that as my father used to say "prepackaged cookies will be as they are 100 years from now". A homemade cookie will have molded years ago!!

Maybe donate it to the Smithsonian?

Oh darn, too bad they weren't chocolate gram crax.

By stale I mean they look kind of dry and shriveled. Im sure some are broken but most seem intact. In fact, I think they are petrified. Maybe enough whipped cream would soften them up and noone will know the difference.

You could try soaking them in brandy or rum to soften them, if that is what they need. That is what I do with dates that have become hard, but that happens rather quickly.

@Lars....she was joking. No one is going to eat nine year old cookies. Nine year old brandy...now that's different! 😂

As peg bundy said, BEST by!

I would. They do not go bad.

When cookies had dried out sonmewhat, Dad used to put an apple core into their package overnight and they were somewhat revivified by the next day.

Now I use a banana peel and that helps revive some of their former appeal.

ole joyful

I imagine they're not only stale but have likely gone rancid.

Taste testing a tiny nibble won't kill you - I think 😏