Okay, what the fuck?
Posted by Ralph--Hinkley@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 127 comments
Posted by Ralph--Hinkley@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 127 comments
adashiel@reddit
I didn’t even know they were originally cookie tins for the longest time.
RSVPno@reddit
Immediate reference is Pedro Pascal as Latina momma on SNL. Wonder if I can find just that clip.
No_Opportunity_4740@reddit
That sketch was hilarious!! I think this one with the cookie tin was when Bad Bunny hosted & Pascal reprised his role as Mama. The first one was when Pascal hosted & it was equally as funny (and so damn true!). In fact he was the funniest host SNL has had in a long time. I recommend watching it.
mojojomama@reddit
I needed that- thanks!
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
Oh I love SNL, and he was great in this episode. Thanks for reminding me.
Mobile_Link_4619@reddit
Yes, so any sort of can such as this would become a vessel for sewing items, buttons, concert ticket stubs, pens screws, nails, screws, paper clips, highlighters, you name it! Fast forward and now there is a special vessel for such items, like a Kuggi at IKEA. The difference now is spending money again to store the stuff to be Lit and Systemized!
RunningPirate@reddit
Was about to say, when you’re done with the cookies, you have a place for sewing stuff!
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
I have my mom's basket full of supplies. Ton of needles, and a variety of thread. I'm a dude, and I learned to sew early in life. Maybe fourteen, mom taught me.
RunningPirate@reddit
I can fix a button but not much else… never learned but I’m not against commandeering GFs fancy sewing machine.
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
Oh, I'd be lost on a machine, but I can definitely mend tears in clothes.
gazenda-t@reddit
There’s nothing wrong with asking to be taught to use a sewing machine. Just please don’t start messing with the settings without knowing what’s happening. Some machines do get complicated, but even the simplest machines can do marvellous things!
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
My auntie is a seamstress and a quilter. She has done some marvelous works of art. My daughter wanted to be Tash Yar one year for Halloween, and I paid auntie $75 to have a full on TNG jumpsuit uniform created.
gazenda-t@reddit
Word to the wise, sir: NEVER TOUCH ANYONES SEWING MACHINE. Never. Ever. Your life will not be worth living. Especially without permission. There are tension settings, and other things, that someone who isn’t familiar with the machine could really mess up. NEVER TOUCH ANYONE’S SEWING MACHINE IF YOU WANT A LONG, HAPPY LIFE.
VeterinarianOk9199@reddit
This! Learned the hard way!
gazenda-t@reddit
Thank you!
RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit
I still buy these cookies & BOY is it hard to toss out that tin when it's empty.
goingloopy@reddit
I buy them sometimes. I just don’t understand why the whole tin isn’t filled with the pretzel ones.
RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit
PRETZEL COOKIE LOVERS UNITE!! Those are my faves too!!
thesturdygerman@reddit
They’re such good quality!
DooDooCat@reddit
Or a place for your stash
gazenda-t@reddit
Exactly!
PlantMystic@reddit
Lol. yum. A lot of the old ladies in my family used these cookie tins for sewing stuff.
FrustratedPassenger@reddit
I took my mom’s when she passed. It still has sewing supplies. I’ll never use them save for a button maybe but I kept it nonetheless!
gazenda-t@reddit
I can show you how to hem something by hand if you want.
FrustratedPassenger@reddit
🤣🤣🤣 I actually took home ec class. I’ve never sewed anything (crocheted and knitted though - didn’t learn that in home ec but whatever) and I’m waiting for frozen chicken Kiev to cool down.
I’m a mess but I’m happy.
gazenda-t@reddit
I’m a mess much of the time! Makes things interesting. I mostly sew costumes for stage so I end up taking shortcuts if it’s not a skirt or something I’m going to wear as “street clothes.”
I wish I could knit and crochet. That seems like magic to me! Suddenly this skein of yarn is totally transformed!!
FrustratedPassenger@reddit
Just between us? When I worked in a fancier office than I do now? I stapled a very ripped hem. Because I could and no one noticed it.
Such a rebel I am.
goingloopy@reddit
I did this with my favorite work skirt for months (until I went to visit my mom, in other words).
gazenda-t@reddit
That’s merely using what’s available in an emergency. The Girl Scout in me is very proud of you.
FrustratedPassenger@reddit
And crocheting is easy. For your first project don’t use a dark colored yarn. It’s really hard to see the stitches. Use a light color and you’ll have an easier time. ❤️
I bet we all can help each other in some level bc GenX knows how to do stuff for themselves.
gazenda-t@reddit
I will try that!
NovelGoddess@reddit
It was a crap-shoot at Nana's house. Those tins were all over and you never knew what you would find when you opened one. If you heard someone yell "Jackpot" everyone else came running for cookies.
PlantMystic@reddit
lol!
fgclolz@reddit
Can confirm. My aunt has a sewing machine and she uses these Danish cookies tins for her threads, needles, pins, etc.
Oktokolo@reddit
They are perfect for that.
MajYoshi@reddit
Our local Walgreens has the Royal Dank cookie tins just like this. We have a tin or two every few months. So good.
Years ago I would have kept the tins, much like I did with the old American Spirit cigarette tins, but I learned I really am not going to save the world with a serial cable in our dystopian future... So I have learned to not hoard as much crap.
I did keep the serial cable, though.
gazenda-t@reddit
I know “dank” is a typo, but considering what I keep in MY tin, it fits!
Zombiiesque@reddit
atomic_chippie@reddit
I did not have relatives that juked me with the cookie tin sewing kit reveal, I just wanted to say how proud I am that i can always recognize a Gen X group by use of the word fuck in the title.
I love you people.
Zombiiesque@reddit
Right?! 🥰
throwpayrollaway@reddit
Uk version was quality street chocolates tin. Only seemed to be a thing at Christmas.
TheFlannC@reddit
That is just as bad as having country crock in the country crock container, or for me popcorn in the Christmas popcorn tins. Everybody knows they are used for driveway salt or random computer wires.
griecovich@reddit
those cookies are good too.
Legitimate_Piccolo45@reddit
Them are best cookies on earth! I still look for that metal container!
Unplannedroute@reddit
When a young man I knew moved into place with friends at 23 a couple years ago, I got a danish cookie tin, ate the contents, and filled it with basics and a lot of wonderweb. Included the punch things for snaps and belts n stuff too. He totally got it
StopSignsAreRed@reddit
This is such a win-win housewarming idea!
I’m stealing it but I’ll give you credit.
Unplannedroute@reddit
I realised they probably wouldn’t sew, so basics on needles n thread. but wonder web, decent scissors, needle threaders, different coloured iron on patches, the punch thingys, funky buttons relating to their interests (google, there’s lots). The house deffo got a laugh out of it, and when they need it they’ll need it.
StupidOldAndFat@reddit
Ours was filled beyond imagination with buttons.
zootnotdingo@reddit
We have two. One is our sewing kit, and the other is buttons.
It reminds me of the Frog and Toad story. Toad is frustrated because he has lost a button and people keep bringing him buttons that aren’t his button. In frustration, he screams, “The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!”
mojojomama@reddit
I’m going to remember this for the next time I scream into the abyss. “Life suuuuuuuucks!” is getting old.
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
I have a ziploc full of different sized buttons.
StupidOldAndFat@reddit
That’s not nearly enough buttons.
Aftermathemetician@reddit
Wait. One ziplock, with every size of button? This seems like a problem that needs sorting out.
corpus-luteum@reddit
It sounds like a huge ziplock, to me.
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
Nah, just a quart size. It's not often you need a new button.
StormFinch@reddit
Hefty makes 2.5 a gallon size, just sayin.
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
Yea, I just find the right sized button.
RefrigeratorSalt9797@reddit
Oh the memories of button tins. And btw, these cookies are amazing. I can’t even buy them or I will eat them all.
gazenda-t@reddit
And who could blame you?!
RefrigeratorSalt9797@reddit
Whyyyy are they so good?
Less_Calligrapher270@reddit
😄
Berfulferd1@reddit
The pretzel shaped 1s with coarse sugar! The best
BaronNeutron@reddit
they have little mini tins at the dollar store, i put the little sewing kit I got in Basic in there :)
Tinawebmom@reddit
Of this brand?!?!
RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit
You can get small versions at Christmas & you can also get this brand at Lidl. At least I think it's this brand. It's the same type of cookies & tin anyway.
Tinawebmom@reddit
Nice!
corpus-luteum@reddit
Did they even have a brand. I just remember them as Danish Cookies.
Happy_Confection90@reddit
There are at least 2 brands. I learned this from reading reviews on BJ's website, and apparently one brand really is terrible.
gazenda-t@reddit
Do tell?
Tinawebmom@reddit
Royal Dansk Danish cookies
corpus-luteum@reddit
I'm sure that was added in the 90s [maybe even oos]. Originally they had no brand name, it was like they were the official cookie of Denmark.
Tinawebmom@reddit
I had to know.
Look what I found on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1517862922/leere-vintage-blechdose-tivoli-edition?ref=share_v4_lx
Now you'll know as well.
corpus-luteum@reddit
I already knew. I just wasn't certain. But thank you, that is greatly appreciated.
Tinawebmom@reddit
I learned. A lot. Thank you for asking. I ran with an assumption only!
corpus-luteum@reddit
This is what communication is for.
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit (OP)
That's what the interbet is for, any bit of information at your fingers.
BaronNeutron@reddit
yup
Jeebusmanwhore@reddit
My mom, both grandmothers, and my aunts all kept sewing supplies in those tins.
Me, that is where I kept my weed, pipes, grinders, rolling machine, and papers.
gazenda-t@reddit
As do I! I still have an old tin I bought in China Town NY in 1989!
justlkin@reddit
I have one currently filled with safety eyes for the crochet plushies I make. Guess I'm ready to level up to Grandma status! LOL!
gazenda-t@reddit
Many of us start very young with using these, so more power to young and old and in between!
ABGM11@reddit
Mouth be set...THREAD! Still got trust issues! 🥺
gazenda-t@reddit
I have several, now. Good to store dabbing and bong accessories and rolling papers.
feeru77@reddit
Send me a picture of the thief's for the other one
pressithegeek@reddit
Its a cookie tin.. Not a sewing kit.
IceBear_028@reddit
"Two things can be real...."
correct_use_of_soap@reddit
DAK
DangerKitty555@reddit
Both 🤨
MoBea@reddit
🤭
phillyvet_life67@reddit
So this is what people post under the GenX title? My mom never had time to sew, let alone have a sewing machine.
Mondschatten78@reddit
And for stitchers, there's cookie tin needle minders now https://www.etsy.com/market/cookie_needle_minder
IBJennie@reddit
OMG!!! That is priceless.
fdr78@reddit
They are the best fucking cookies
zombieofcoffee@reddit
Right? So weird. Cookies...smh
Mueryk@reddit
So this last Christmas I bought two of these tins and emptied one and refilled other sewing supplies. I made a show of bringing in and opening the tin for my family. We each had a few cookies.
About a half hour later I swapped them and waited for the chaos to ensure. My children were highly confused , the wife’s eyes rolled super hard, and I was greatly amused. It was a good day
Equal_Audience_3415@reddit
😄
TigerGrizzCubs78@reddit
I love those cookies
gravion17@reddit
LIES! LIES! WEB OF LIES!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Altruistic-Ad6449@reddit
I like the pretzel shaped ones with the sugar sprinkles
Uranus_Hz@reddit
Those cookies weren’t very good.
littleheaterlulu@reddit
It’s the button tin!
The_Dixco_Bunny@reddit
As a seamstress I approve this message. 😂
redtesta@reddit
Lol
DJMagicHandz@reddit
Once you finish the cookies and leave it at your grandma's house a sewing kit will magically appear, thems the rules.
chicahhh@reddit
Does every grandma do this
TheManWithNoEyes@reddit
Some people actually purchase a tin of those cookies. He's showing us the BEFORE!
BCCommieTrash@reddit
I have one full of IKEA parts and tools. :)
GenerationX-cat@reddit
oh good idea! I'm stealing this idea.
PaperbackBuddha@reddit
To a young kid, those things look like cookies but do not taste like cookies.
MaloneChiliService@reddit
That's where I kept my crayons.
whatsthis1901@reddit
Lol, same. I had a few of them when I was a kid and kept all sorts of stuff in them. I even had one full of dead bugs and butterflies that I found until my mom made me throw them out.
Netprincess@reddit
Always a sewing kit
IronDragonRider@reddit
Dude! We had several of these with different things in all. You had to go through every one to find what you were looking for. We had our marbles for Chinese checkers in one of them. That one was easy to find.
notdorisday@reddit
I love this transcends continents - I always thought this was an Aussie thing!
TotallyNotABot_Shhhh@reddit
Southern Californian and my gransns and all her sisters kept their sewing stuff in this, and buttons in a hat box.
Tired_Trying8918@reddit
This instantly cheered me up. Thanks 😂
Flashy_Adhesiveness6@reddit
I keep 22LR ammo in one.
YoureSooMoneyy@reddit
Hahaha!!!
CyndiIsOnReddit@reddit
Yeah it was a big tin of stems and seeds 'round these parts.
My grandmother had her sewing kit in a King Leo Peppermints tin.
Purple-Construction5@reddit
I loved these cookies as a kid...
It was the highest quality I ever knew when we received it in a Christmas hamper
But yes, remainder of the year is just used for sewing kits or my dad's mahjong coin box.
Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit
i lol'd instantly. i thought it was only my family who kept their sewing paraphernalia in those tins.
i don't, but it's only because those cookies are just so blah. i've made other arrangements.
runningoutofwords@reddit
Blah? those cookies are WONDERFUL. especially the ones with the ginormous sugar crystals
really good with tea
Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit
i can actually see it with tea. they're the perfect kind of subtle to work well with that taste.
idk, maybe i'm just spoiled. if i want cookies i make them, and that usually means i can tailor them to my own tastes.
i do like those big sugar crystals though.
MowBooVee@reddit
Giant sugar sand rocks!
CHILLAS317@reddit
Buttery and not overly sweet
TemperatureTop246@reddit
My mother in law lives with us and we have that exact tin… full of her embroidery.
Tinawebmom@reddit
I literally bought one so I could have a sewing tin. Then I've received two more as gifts!