Happy Birthday Bronte and Benny.
Irene and I like trying new things where we go. In France it was the Mars Bars, in Australia it was the TimTams. Here in Baltimore it's the Berger Cookies. I made the mistake of asking a grocery clerk if they had any hamburger cookies. He said, "Sir, where are you from?" I told him Utah, then he said, "They're not hamburger cookies! They're Berger Cookies. Then he spelled it for me, B E R G E R. And no, I don't have any here. You can get them at Safeway on Highway 100."
We wouldn't have known anything about these cookies, but Sister Koyle, who will be coming out here for her mission in November, called us a couple of days ago and told us about them. They are sold in stores only in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas, everywhere else it's an on-line order. Don't waste your time or money though. Irene was quick to point out that there is 20g of sugar in one cookie. My response was: "So." The bad thing about them is that they are $5.99 for a box of ten.
The other cookie we bought to try is another locally produced cookie, Otterbien's. It's only $4.99 for a 7 oz bag. They established themselves in Baltimore in 1881. That's the same year that Ricks College, now BYU Idaho, was established I think. There's only 11g of sugar in 4 of these cookies. So, I figure I've consumed about 75g of sugar in the last few minutes.
On a more spiritual note, however, I quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell, "In the fourteenth chapter of Exodus the children of Israel [cursed] Moses for taking them - seemingly illogically - to the Red Sea [because there was no escape]. As they faced the Red Sea, with Pharaoh's armies at their heels, they could not expect. . .to see a narrow path created such as had never been created before. But it happened!"
Faith! How hard is it?
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