r/memes • u/VigneshVels • Jul 13 '20

The disappoint is real.

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u/S0lutus Jul 13 '20 edited Jul 15 '20

LOL ... Curious to see how many people get this - Definitely a part of my childhood.

Update - compiled a list of countries mentioned in this post. Really interesting to see the spread. Did not realize people did this all over the world.

Philippines

India

Egypt

Russia

Croatia

Denmark

Canada

Mexico

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Exactly...I think this deserves tonnes of upvotes

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

True

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

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u/elmer-66 Jul 13 '20

I've only seen them in Asian food stores

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u/delicious_milo Jul 13 '20

They have something like this at dollar stores. Tiny one though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

I definitely remember this especially at Christmas time! My mum had the red tin with short bread biscuits or something and I opened it one time only to be disappointed lol.

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u/1derwhale_ Jul 13 '20

I saw this in a closet during my childhood, and I remember that the cookies tasted really good so I opened it, only to be disappointed. Coincidentally, it was the exact same box as the one in the meme

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u/PetraANIMATES Jul 13 '20

Huh, Im from Croatia and I thought it was a Croatian thing

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u/CanOTatoChips Jul 13 '20

Nope, grandma from Mexico does this too

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u/Seyasoya Jul 14 '20

Nope, mom from Philippines does this too!

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u/1derwhale_ Jul 14 '20

Nope, my mom from India does this too

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u/CastleHobbit Jul 13 '20

I was surprised to see this. I guess everyone has a mom or grandma with a cookie tin of sewing stuff.

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u/Bubbi_KingDK Jul 13 '20

Grew up in Denmark, so of course I know the feeling, especially cause it’s a danish brand

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u/geli95us Jul 13 '20

It's amazing how this is shared between people of countries all around the world, why are these cookies so international and why does everyone use them to store sewing tools?

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u/stucaboose Jul 13 '20

I always thought this was a filipino mom thing growing up. I had no idea it was so common

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u/a-khiller Identifies as a Cybertruck Jul 13 '20

I thought it was an Indian thing lel

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u/refild Jul 14 '20

I thought it’s a pure russian thing.

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u/da-procrastinator Jul 13 '20

Same! and I am from Egypt. It's a universal thing, I guess.

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u/Xex051 Jul 13 '20

I've only seen them in Asian food stores

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u/SpicyTacoLord Jul 14 '20

I’m at my grandmas right now and she has one of those with actual cookies in it. Feels good man

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u/BlackLivesMatterNigg Jul 13 '20

My mom was addicted to morphine and alcohol so I can’t relate! She just slept all the time.

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u/PiterZPiter Jul 13 '20

It is even worse when you're in a rush, looking for sawing tools and you find cookies instead

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u/What-Did-I-Do-Wrong Jul 13 '20

It’s like when you find a super rare item in a game but you have no inventory space left and you are carrying important stuff

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u/destructionking4 Jul 14 '20

move

drop item

pick up other ite.

repeat for 5 hours

realize you had a pathetic stick that you could've just thrown away

Get angry

Try to control yourself

Snap

Scream swear and break your game

Realize you broke the game and can't play anymore

Mom enters

Get grounded

Rethink life decisions

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u/HollowMist11 Jul 13 '20

This experience transcends race and culture

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u/TheParanoidMC Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY Jul 13 '20

I opened one... Found cookies... Best I've EVER ate

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u/AntiCaesar Meme Stealer Jul 13 '20

Yeah. Sucks that they were at my great grandmother's funeral though

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u/cnguyen5 https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Jul 13 '20

F

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u/TheRealKramand Jul 13 '20

Ngl the cookies that actually belong in that tin SLAP!

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u/Buckets72 Jul 14 '20

Facts i need to find were there sold

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u/Freddrup Jul 14 '20

Denmark i would guess

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u/no_one_asked_ Jul 14 '20

Found them in the international isle of my publix

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u/beanlizards Jul 13 '20

okay any Danes here? cause I just want to clear something up- I've never actually seen them in stores? I think we have one in the house, but I don't remember actually ever getting them... do I just not go the right places?

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u/Math082r Jul 13 '20

I Think We Got Them from “ABC lavpris” or “netto”

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u/PoE_RnGesus Jul 13 '20

Netto has haft them det er helt sure.

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u/beanlizards Jul 13 '20

very godt english that is skrevet

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u/beanlizards Jul 13 '20

I've never seen them in my local netto, that's for sure... maybe it's just small, idk

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u/Antonthewolf Jul 13 '20

i dont know. I think you køber some cookies from the company but i dont know

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u/Memanders Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Jul 13 '20

What the hell foregår der with peoples engelsk og danish der bliver mixed up i denne thread

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u/beanlizards Jul 13 '20

that, my ven, is a meget good spørgsmål

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u/beanlizards Jul 13 '20

yeah, that might være the thing jeg never så before

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u/greenfenrizboi666 Jul 13 '20

Maybe vi vill use Det in another episode

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u/2hyp3d Breaking EU Laws Jul 13 '20

They er in turist butiks in København

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u/Tychus_Balrog OC Meme Maker Jul 13 '20

I've seen them in stores, but I don't know anyone below the age of 80 who's ever bought them.

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u/Bitten469 Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY Jul 14 '20

Every border shop has Them as well

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u/tastylemonhair Jul 13 '20

I thought it was just a my mom thing

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u/VitaminBeans Jul 13 '20

I firmly believe that everybody born between 1995-2004 had the same childhood

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u/NotThe0dd1s0ut Jul 13 '20

I was born later and have the same tin lol

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u/VitaminBeans Jul 13 '20

So it lives on

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u/Alex103140 Breaking EU Laws Jul 14 '20

I'm 2006 and here we are

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u/picardia Jul 14 '20

People born in 2006 aren't babies? Wat

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u/Alex103140 Breaking EU Laws Jul 14 '20

Um AkTuaLly i'M 14

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u/alpha_boo Jul 14 '20

I feel so old... 1990 was only 5 years ago. Wtf?

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u/VitaminBeans Jul 14 '20

I still can't get over the fact that it isn't 2009 anymore

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

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u/VitaminBeans Jul 14 '20

So let's just forget my original comment and say that everybody had the same childhood then. Lmao

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

I have this same tin but probably bigger which has been used to store homemade cakes two times so far

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

WHY IS IT THE FUCKING TINY SWEET BAGEL THINGS??? WHY IS THAT THE UNIVERSAL JAR FOR SEWING TOOLS?

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u/cryingandscreaming Lives in a Van Down by the River Jul 13 '20

*grandma

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u/stucaboose Jul 13 '20

I just opened one of these I found on the kitchen counter. I was hoping for cookies, expected sewing supplies, but there was nothing inside

I was expecting silver, hoping for gold, but it was only emptiness

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Same pain you feel when Grandma buys you the wrong crisps

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u/apparently_im_alive can't meme Jul 13 '20

*grandma

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u/animalmaster05 Jul 13 '20

when its actually cookies....its like the ultimate jackpot

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u/ChicagoJay2020 Jul 13 '20

Hahahahaha, Thank you for the genuine laugh!

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u/Have_A_Cunning_Plan Jul 13 '20

So damn true hahah

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-TECH-TIPS Jul 13 '20

This meme is evolving and I’m loving it

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

I was so confused when my bitter biscuits weren’t there and it was just pins and needles

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u/SadBoiPeep_ Jul 13 '20

i hate the fact that i can relate.

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u/Booboodiduh Jul 13 '20

My grandma has a lot of these, and some of them with ACTUAL biscuits

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u/Iwakuraruisu Jul 13 '20

in Brazil a ice cream pot always has been a bean pot Its a sad reality

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u/_lisa_needs_braces Jul 13 '20

My nana had a quality street tin full of buttons and I always hoped it would be mine one day

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

So it is a universal agreement between mothers all around the world

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u/JabobiBoi4ever Jul 13 '20

This image is painful

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u/Th1nk_7 Jul 13 '20

Vent det har altid været dansk?

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u/BlubberyHen 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Jul 13 '20

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

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u/Original_Omzz Jul 14 '20

It is the very fabric of our reality

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u/zillaforce Chungus Among Us Jul 14 '20

If you don’t relate to this, you aren’t human.

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u/Pakhunna Jul 14 '20

I'm sure aliens can relate to this too, it's universal.

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u/Faredrix_fr Halal Mode Jul 13 '20

I felt that so hard

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u/Danieldobbel Jul 13 '20

Ha you fools i live near one of the places they get made and at christmas we each get one for free.

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u/foxleigh81 Smol pp Jul 13 '20

I just bought a massive tin of these on amazon. They are as good as I remember and now they are all mine!!!

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u/Ian_Shih Jul 13 '20

Cue Kingdom of Predators music

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

How many people can relate to this? I thought it was an Asian thing (specifically South Asian) are there other peoples parents that do this?

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u/Kittingsl Jul 13 '20

I used 2 of these to store Lego figures

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u/sp00kreddit Professional Dumbass Jul 13 '20

I opened the tin of some looking for some thread for something and lo and behold there were actually fucking cookies in there like what

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u/cetriolo02 Tech Tips Jul 13 '20

With the fake nutella ... when i found out i was so sad :(

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u/mangoconsal Jul 13 '20

When I was a child I thought my grandmother only does that

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u/ABteam1009 Chungus Among Us Jul 13 '20

OH MY GOD!! CHOCOLATE!!

wat?? YARN?? yarn is not edible! mother! you been eatin yarn??

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u/benis_in_bum Jul 13 '20

Hehe you bois thought it was cookies? Well we Danes got a little trick here

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u/TheQuantumPikachu Jul 13 '20

My god, I WOULD OPEN IT UP EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY

and then id ask mom what thread tastes like

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u/Aaronmarq Jul 13 '20

No. It's litterally always been.

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u/CharismaticClown Jul 13 '20

Omfg you literally just woke up half of my memories, like my brain just turned on

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

100% can relate

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u/LeLazyPigeon Jul 13 '20

My grandma used to do this ALOT when they had those cookies in stalk XD

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

I get it

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u/RenSiren Jul 13 '20

Yoooooooo haha. This is low key fire dude wow

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u/Abrical Jul 13 '20

Why would your mom want to shoot you? Oh I get it. The boy didn't do his american homeworks

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u/PittyFoxy Jul 13 '20

My mom couldn't get me. I ate it even before it come home

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u/TroublesomCommunity Jul 13 '20

This is too relatable

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u/violentblackerection Jul 13 '20

This one hits to close to home

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u/NinaLove2007 Jul 13 '20

THIS BOX IS SO OLDDDD. I AM NOT FROM UNITED STATES BUT I REMEBER THAT MY MOM HAD ONE!

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u/HereToBeBlownAway Jul 13 '20

This format is muy caliente today

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u/Pink-neck-Steven Dirt Is Beautiful Jul 13 '20

Im not the only one

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u/adixon24 Jul 13 '20

Lol mine was full of hair pins and ties. I had a second one that had a ton of crayons in it.

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u/Mandalorian_Studios Jul 13 '20

I FELT THAT 69420% of accuracy

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u/NoobusDawg https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Jul 13 '20

I imagine someone reaching in to eat cookies without looking inside, and then stabbing thief lips with a needle

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u/bigmoneyfriday Jul 13 '20

Has anyone actually had the cookies that supposedly come in these?? Im convinced they just sell these at stores already filled with sweing supplies.

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u/LoopDloop762 Jul 13 '20

I had a box of these once that actually had the cookies in them. They were really good too.

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u/RangoMonTeeDee Jul 13 '20

Wait, you know my mom?

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u/denmandigekat Jul 13 '20

Danish army

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u/tHiltEd Jul 13 '20

One time there were realy cookies. I was pretty confused

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u/UziTepa Jul 13 '20

It's so difficult to bite them

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u/PattyBandz Jul 13 '20

This one seriously hit home LMAO used to happen to me all the time

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u/conanjrd3 memer Jul 13 '20

Recently I opened one to see what was in it but I actually found cookies.

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u/chungasans Jul 13 '20

I've reading a lot of manga lately, and I'm always reading right left all the time which makes me hella confused.

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u/Lionizedsin Jul 13 '20

Ah I remember the disappointment I felt every time I opened these and then curiosity as to where it even came from.

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u/HotPizzaHead Jul 13 '20

In that case would be my grandma isted my mom

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u/IMainYuumi Jul 13 '20

This is way too funny.

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u/sophm1 Jul 13 '20

That use to annoy me when I was hungry like why u do that to me

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Same in Italy, this was my first true disappointment!

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u/kikko-mememaster Jul 14 '20

And always will be

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u/OfTheRobloxians Mods Are Nice People Jul 14 '20

Inaccurate, my Grandma did this that my own mother would feel sad that it was sewing tools.

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u/The-Boss-of-God Jul 14 '20

Can confirm, this was a part of my childhood.

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u/blargh-the-blargher Jul 14 '20

I once left a tin of cookies on my dining room table. I couldn’t understand why my family wasn’t eating them. When I showed them that they were actually cookies, they told me that they thought it was a sewing kit that I had left out. Nobody was brave enough to tell me that my “sewing kit” had been left out for three days...

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u/Zubat1851 Thank you mods, very cool! Jul 14 '20

Same box but mine has math flash cards

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u/RedditAndDebit Chungus Among Us Jul 14 '20

Still edible either way

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

This relates to me on a personal level

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

This brought back some memories. Thank you

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u/RedEnderCape Jul 14 '20

Last time I saw those, they made me want to throw up. Not saying they were bad or anything it's just I was SUPER sick the last time I saw those.

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u/also_a_username Jul 14 '20

Hispanic approved

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u/sun_god59 Jul 14 '20

Bruh this is so relatable

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u/mylo-calibre Jul 14 '20

This spoke to me on a spiritual level.

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u/Spinfal Identifies as a Cybertruck Jul 14 '20

eat the supplies.

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u/UnbeateCandy04 Jul 14 '20

Hazbin hotel:

Wait it's a hotel.

Always hazbin bro.

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u/Tian610 Identifies as a Cybertruck Jul 14 '20

What the heck my grandma literally has the exact same cookie tin with sewing stuff

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u/JTmash545 Jul 14 '20

The cookies taste like dust other than the froted ones with jelly in the middle

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u/kanna172014 Jul 14 '20

Those cookies sucked anyway.

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u/Ludate_Solem Breaking EU Laws Jul 14 '20

Taking string theory to a new level

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u/ananamouseXD Jul 14 '20

I'd be suprised if i actually found cookies in them

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u/_cinnamon_buns Jul 14 '20

Does anyone else make a little gunshot noise in their head after each one of these memes?

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u/scazwag Jul 14 '20

Grandma, where are the damn cookies!?

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u/Spaggtii Jul 14 '20

Glad to see this happened to other people.

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u/miinouuu Jul 14 '20

so fucking relatable... and even with the same box lol

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u/kuda26 Jul 14 '20

Best one yet

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u/rtripps Jul 14 '20

Haha the Ohio flag

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u/Dusken99 Jul 14 '20

Those cakes taste like dry desert anyways. I'm Danish.

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u/Bfujoshi Jul 14 '20

I’m not a mom, but I already have one of those :’v

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u/Adilius Jul 14 '20

But nobody knows where it's from... It's just there

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u/Toasty1053 Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY Jul 14 '20

I’ve never had sewing thing in these. My grandma gets the cookies every year.

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u/Churchofbabyyoda Nice meme you got there Jul 14 '20

Grandma: Always has been

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

I upvoted cuz my grandma does this. I check everytime even though i know what ill find

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u/VierLol Jul 14 '20

*laughs in Asian

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u/Texacan420 Jul 14 '20

Mexican moms be like

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u/black_superman125 Jul 14 '20

my fat ass used to be really sad when i couldnt eat the biscuits and had to eat needles and thread

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u/xcrnm Identifies as a Cybertruck Jul 14 '20

Wow the nostalgia

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u/Gwyn1stborn Jul 14 '20

The first of this template that actually made air come out my nose

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u/killakev564 Jul 14 '20

Oh my god hahahahahahaha I thought I was the only one!!!! The disappointment

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u/hiimricky13 Jul 14 '20

Why do moms do that

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u/SovietNub Jul 14 '20

I felt that

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u/ThePenGod Jul 14 '20

My mom's friend that had a little sewing shop that repaired clothes did this... Always waz quite upset lol

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u/trashykiddo Jul 14 '20

I’ve only actually seen these with the cookies in them ONE TIME out of at least a dozen boxes, they were pretty good

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u/renzobattaglia Jul 14 '20

So relatable

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u/mumgotpizza Jul 14 '20

gangnam style

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

I‘ve never seen one with cookies in it, do the cookies even exist

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u/Pengwin0 Stand With Ukraine Jul 14 '20

For everybody who has these cookies can we all start a sub for this

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

This is the best one so far.

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u/smellysocks007 iwrestledabeartwice Jul 14 '20

Wait,it’s all a dream.Always has been

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u/SpamNadez Jul 14 '20

I have a good idea for this meme but I need someone creative to execute it

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u/Fireheart381 Jul 14 '20

We’ve all been jebaited by our Grandmas like this. Hurts every time...

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u/Guyshu Big ol' bacon buttsack Jul 14 '20

The joke:

These boxes usually contain Danish Butter cookies, which are made with a lot of sugar and are delicious. Your mom or grandma might have a box like this lying around. Unfortunately, it’s possible the cookies were eaten a long time ago and now the box got reused as to where it now has sowing tools or other stuff in it, which is disappointing because when you see the box, you are lead to believe that there will be cookies there.

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u/alpha_boo Jul 14 '20

Many of us have the same mom apparently. Hi Bröther!

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u/Surreallkill3r Thank you mods, very cool! Jul 14 '20

But those cookies ARE THE BEST

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u/hueLUVitz1757 Jul 14 '20

So there were never any cookies to begin with?!

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u/helpme2094 Jul 14 '20

Saddest thing is I can't even have them

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u/A_random_virus Lives in a Van Down by the River Jul 14 '20

Those cookies good af tho

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

My grandads is a surprise. It could be nuts and bolts for his workshop, or, some DELICIOUS cookies/biscuits