That’s nearly 1,100 cookies a year. No wonder we have a problem with obesity.
Admittedly, some of the numbers on this survey are kind of cockeyed. The part about one out of five of us eating at least three cookies a day is somewhat contradicted by the survey’s own figure of 16.1{09c3c849cf64d23af04bfef51e68a1f749678453f0f72e4bb3c75fcb14e04d49} eating that many cookies.
That’s one out of six of us, not one out of five. Perhaps we should not place too much faith in a marketing company, even one with an office in St. Louis.
Still, the study is compelling in other respects. For instance, American cookie consumption turns out to be a function of geography.
The states leading the nation in cookie eating are generally in the west: Utah leads the country, followed by Idaho, Oregon and Montana. Meanwhile, the states that eat the fewest cookies are all in the south: Louisiana is the least cookie-crazed, followed by South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.
Missouri ranks 18th in cookie consumption; Illinois is No. 26.
Incidentally, the person who drew the study’s map is no more accurate than the person who did their math. North Carolina has taken the shape of a crazed sea monster, a giant chasm has mysteriously erupted between otherwise adjoining parts of Maryland and Delaware, Long Island has become freakishly large, Connecticut has disappeared and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan does not seem to be part of any state at all. And don’t ask when the Potomac River became so wide, because I don’t know.
