cookie puss!

Few will understand how wonderful this is. For some of us, it will be life-changing. The Vegan Cookie Puss, from the brilliant  Isa Chandra Moskowitz:

If you didn’t grow up in NYC the prospect might actually a little but frightening I suppose. You can wikipedia it, but in brief, Cookiepuss is a space alien who arrived at Carvel Ice Cream Bakeries with an ice cream cone for a nose and cookies for eyes and lots of frosting and sprinkles for embellishments (like a hat! and hands!) She’s made, of course, of ice cream…

Carvel was a local ice cream chain and their commercials, which ran throughout the seventies and eighties in NYC, featured a variety of interesting characters the Carvel people had invented themselves. Creative brilliance at work. The only possible way to top it: a vegan Fudgie the Whale. Like Isa, though, no one ever got me a Cook Puss or Fudgie the Whale (which if I remember right was heavily promoted around father’s day, although I can’t quite imagine why). Instead I got health food crap. That’s probably why I haven’t been sick in like twenty years, but also scarred me psychologically. Well, life’s full of trade-offs, I guess.