Wally Amos is responsible for making more than just cookies famous. You may be familiar with Wally “Famous” Amos, thanks to his packaged chocolate chip cookies. But before he worked his magic on the sweet treats, he was in the business of making people famous, Biography reports. He discovered and signed the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel and was a talent rep for acts like Diana Ross, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye.
100 Mind-Blowing Cookies Facts
The fortune cookie was invented in America. The first person in the U.S. reported to serve fortune cookies is Makoto Hagiwara from San Francisco. The first recorded use of serving fortune cookies was dated in the early 1890s.
The cast of Stand By Me accidentally got high from pot cookies. According to Kiefer Sutherland, the Stand By Me cast once went to a Renaissance Fair near their shooting location. They bought cookies from the fair. However, they had accidentally eaten pot brownies. The crew found Jerry O’Connell high and sobbing somewhere in the park.
Reindeer love grass. If you want to meet Santa on Christmas Day, you might want to consider keeping your lawn fresh instead of leaving cookies. Rudolph and his kind love greens such as willows, birches, and sedges. However, they would occasionally eat their old antlers for calcium.
Oreo has made enough cookies to go to the moon and back 5 times. Since Oreo was introduced to the market in 1912, over 450 billion Oreo cookies have been sold worldwide.
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
Cookie Monster isn’t eating cookies on Sesame Street – they’re painted rice cakes!
Fortune cookies are an American invention — Charles Jung created them in 1918.