When I get responses about my Magic Middles article, the first questions is generally "Did you ever find a recipe?" and the second is almost always, "Do you remember Giggles cookies?"

Yes, I remember Giggles cookies, and their sweet sandwiched faces with delicious fillings with the outer and inner flavors. Like I sandwich cookies, I liked to take them apart, roll up the icing with my tongue and eat it, then devour the cookie disc. What I especially loved about Giggles is they seemed so happy about you eating them. It's always nice when your snacks appear to have gained sentience. I'm more apt to respond to a hamburger commercial if the hamburger is talking to me, telling me how delicious it is and saying I should come on over and eat it.


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I told someone a few weeks ago I'd get this Giggles cookie commercial up, but I haven't done so because I've been busy constructing a replica of the Nile river using bottlecaps and the blood of my enemies. This commercial is a rebuttal to the original Giggles commercials, where a kid and his four-eyed suspender-wearing cronie try to disprove that Giggles will actually make you pounding-on-the-table giggly. I don't buy this kid's mafioso act. I don't know much about Italians, but I'm pretty sure they grow all kinds of wirey hair by that age and his arms look pretty smooth.

I'm not sure what sort of school has "Giggles Cookies Day" but I sure wish my school did. One time we did get to take a field trip to the town cookie factory and they gave us a huge box of cookies to split throughout the class. I miss the cookie factory, there's really nothing like walking to school in the morning when the whole town smells like fresh sugar cookies.

To this day I'm boggled that Giggles failed. I'm even more boggled that no other company attempted to pick up the idea of putting funny faces on their cookies. Not that hard to drill a few holes on one side of a sandwich cookie, it'll certainly look better than an 80 year old pedophilic elf. Giggles cookies were cute little friends, Ernie the Elf is just a sick fuck.

I wonder if the kids in this commercial will ever make attempts to contact me, like the company that makes those bad Dollar Tree candies, that dude from the Nick Halloween sweepstakes or that guy that used to make the Fun Fruit Tree commercials. I wish I hadn't lost that guy's e-mail address. Damn Vista.