I have admitted it. I’m a cookie snob. I love cookies and gravy, but every time I visit restaurants, I order sourdough toast instead of cookies. The restaurant cookies are pretty uniform. . . well, just not much.

Now, I give restaurants the benefit of the doubt. The first time I order B&G at a new restaurant, I will have the cookies. This is just in case there are great cookies in the general population that eat my taste buds. So far, this selection process has yet to produce gold cookies worthy of the name.

I grew up eating wonderful cookies at home, but most Americans never tasted cookies until 1973, when McDonald’s introduced them with their breakfast menu. My wife and I make wonderful cookies as does my oldest son. Mine are absolutely perfect. My wife prefers their version because they are smaller. She uses a small juice glass to cut her cookies, while I like the larger 16oz size. drop. Peg’s cookies aren’t quite as tall as mine, either. Also, you tend to overcook your cookies. . . in my opinion. Of course, my wife disagrees with me. All of these differences in homemade cookies are only slight compared to commercial products.

However, the strange thing about cookies is the fact that three fast food restaurants produce great tasting cookies. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits constantly serve cookies that are not only worthy of honey, butter, and jelly, but gravy as well.

My order of preference is: Popeye, McDonald’s and KFC. Popeye’s is a recent addition to my favorite places. I stopped at the restaurant on Sixth Avenue and ordered chicken and cookies. The chicken did nothing for me, but the cookies were hot and greasy. I love the sausage cookies at McDonald’s and the only bad thing about the KFC cookies is the almost tasteless brown sauce, which should never come closer to a foot or two from your cookies. At Popeye’s you can order a side of their Cajun sauce, which goes very well with cookies.

I would have guessed that Popeye cookies were higher in fat, and they were, but only marginally. The Popeye cookies were substantially lower in sodium, but otherwise all three were neck and neck within most nutrition categories.

The KFC cookies had 220 calories, while Popeye and McDonald’s had 240 calories. Cookies are not diet foods, but of the three, Popeye’s only one was the best with no added butter or jelly. With salsa, we have a different story. The best thing would be for me to make my own sausage and gravy. Even spoiled cookies taste better with good gravy. Of course, my idea of ​​a perfect breakfast is biscuits and gravy with fries (cooked crispy and browned with onions), fried eggs, sausage, and patties. . . and bacon. However, I can’t eat that every day. It has to be a special day.

I think for next Father’s Day I’ll be ordering dip side dishes and fries at my two favorite salsa restaurants in Tacoma (Old Milwaukee on Sixth Avenue and Knapp’s in the Proctor District) and a bag of Popeye’s cookies. . . Okay, don’t skimp on the eggs and pork either.