30 September 2008
Bad Cookie?
Posted by admin under: cookies .
A mountain of ruined cookies—41,000 cases, to be exact—is at the center of a lawsuit filed in Davidson County Chancery court. This strikes at the very heart of a sugar hound.
Interbake, whose very name sucks all the fun and joy right out of baked goods at a speed I hadn’t thought possible, is suing an area warehouse for improper cookie storage.
Perhaps you purchased cookies that turned out to be “stale, crumbly, soft and having an unusual appearance”? Interbake’s suit asserts that the Cumberland Furnace-area warehouse operated by Meritex (who thinks up these names?) leaked, was moldy, and that cookies were stored in improper areas. Meritex also is accused of knowingly delivering damaged boxes, and of concealing damaged boxes inside cases of unharmed boxes.
Interbake makes cookies for private labels by contract and operates ABC Bakers, the Girl Scout cookie bakery. The lawsuit doesn’t specify the identity of the cookies, but they are “specialty cookies” “distributed primarily in the months of January, February, March and April.” I really hope it wasn’t Scout cookies. Anyone experience substandard cookies? And can we think of a better name for Interbake?
If you find a bad cookie thank Nashville Scene for giving you the heads up on the why. And go over to their blog to give them a better name for Interbake (lame, I agree).
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