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[tzikeh]

Yesterday, on a whim, I stopped into Bennison's Bakery up in Evanston. And there, among the happy smiley-face cookies, was this cookie:



The eyebrows reminded me of all the fun I have reading bash.org, because the face reminds me of the first time I saw the angry emoticon >:( (it was at bash.org). And I had to get it for my room mate merryish, because she was having a bit of a vidding day. We took pictures of the cookie, and she made herself this icon, and then we ate it. MMMM, tasty, tasty anger.

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. When she said "a bakery in Evanston," I thought, "Maybe it's Bennison's ... nah. Bennison's probably isn't even there any more. It's probably gone the way of Yesterday's."

Oh. Raisin brioches in the morning. Woe.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hee - when I was at NU I made weekly trips to Bennison's. Mmmmmmm.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Do I want to know when you were at NU, or is the answer just going to make me feel oooooold? (Medill, '86.)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

hee - I started the year after you left - Speech, 91.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

OK, that's not too bad. Sometimes I learn how old people are, and I feel like a Dirty Old Fan.

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

Oh god... I <3 Bennison's!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yum yum yum!!

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

That is a brilliant icon *g*

I remember a weekend where my friends and I practically lived on Bennison's, ah joy. I have to find something comparable in Oak Park. Haven't found that yet.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I don't know of anywhere in Oak Park, but there's a really good bakery in Forest Park. On Madison. Can't think of the name, of course.

It's not Bennison's, because what is, really? But it's pretty good.

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'll check that out. I was trolling down said street in said town Friday night.

Thanks!

[jfc013.livejournal.com]

A bud of mine used to live immediately across the street from Bennison's (over Gigio's Pizza). She said that the smells from the bakery were wicked to wake up to at 4 a.m. long before they ever opened! I used to live over on Oak just west of there for 13 years!