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Famous 4th St Cookies

my head and a giant black and white cookie
There's my gigantic head along with an equally gigantic black and white cookie from Famous 4th St Delicatessen over on 4th & Bainbridge Sts.

Lady got herself a chocolate chip cookie which she thinks they baked with an entire stick of butter [that's per cookie]. I took a little nibble of it and it was yummy [and tasted like a stick of butter was in it].

That gigantic black and white caught my eye immediately. I instantly thought of the black and whites from Junior's and Zaro's and just about every corner deli in NYC. This was the first black and white I can recall seeing here in Philly. So I had to get it. Sadly, it was quite shitty. Chewy specifically. The top wasn't hard enough either. The bread cookie part of it was just chewy and not slightly soft. Lady didn't like it either. Blech. Maybe it was a bad batch. I dunno. But it wasn't a good one.

Any other place in town carrying fresh black and white cookies?

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One Comment on “Famous 4th St Cookies”

  1. Scott Says:
    April 29th, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

    I asked this very same question over on Blankbaby nearly two years ago:

    http://blankbaby.typepad.com/blankbaby/2004/07/i_want_a_black_.html

    And someone suggested the Swiss Pastry Shop:

    Swiss Pastry Shop
    35 South 19th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19103

    And I gotta tell ya, the cookie was good. The icing was just right, and the cookie was cake-like, as it should be. Though they still aren't as good as the ones in New York.

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