10 nostalgic cookies you absolutely wanted to take to school
As a hip and healthy adult, you impress your colleagues with a well-filled green salad featuring nuts, sprouts and a luxurious dressing from a local specialty shop. Things were different back then, when you were still trading your Fox Kids TV Cards (remember those?!) in the playground of your primary school. These are 10 cookies that really made you the talk of the class back in the day.
Plop Cookies
Back when we were all doing the Gnome Dance en masse, there was only one thing you wanted: Plop Cookies to take to school. Because they came straight from Mister Plop’s mushroom, or so you thought. Plop Cookies came packed in twos and featured the Plop logo. Super simple, really, but this cookie was still absolutely the best.
Samson and Gert Cookies
Another one in the Studio 100 category: Samson and Gert Cookies. Just like with the Plop Cookies, you got two in one package: a Samson and a Gert. The flavor was—not unlike the Plop Cookie—not particularly special, but so what? That’s not what you care about when you’re 10, right? You just want everything Samson and everything Gert. (By the way, if they ever release a version featuring Gert’s son Viktor, I’ll be the first one standing outside the shop to buy a whole load of them.)
K3 Wafers
Oh, how I was a FAN of these three girls. I wanted absolutely everything— and I mean everything—from K3. And I was by far not the only one. If someone brought these K3 wafers to school, you could genuinely expect jealous looks from the other fans. Of course, you saved the wrappers so you could stick them on your K3 folder. Or your K3 pencil case. Or your K3 cup. You simply weren’t a real fan if you didn’t bring these wafers to school, you understand.
Captain Cookie
Captain Cookie managed to make a boring gingerbread cookie somewhat fancy by sticking white edible stars to the side. Sadly, they haven’t been available for a while now. So here’s a call to Snelle Jelle: we want fancy gingerbread with white stars!
Prince Mini Stars
‘A whole roll of cookies! Try keeping that to yourself…’ was called from your TV into the living room in the 2000s. And they were right, too, because if you brought these to school, people would swoop down on you like hawks.
Knoppers
Here’s a serious question: is there a cookie tastier than Knoppers? I don’t think so. This cookie has it all: a crispy wafer, milk and hazelnut cream filling, chocolate and small pieces of roasted hazelnut. Knoppers was already a huge hit back then and fortunately is still very popular today. It’s now available in several varieties too, but if you ask me, the original is still the undisputed number one.
Bolletje Zakkenrollers
Do you remember Bolletje’s Zakkenrollers? Biscuits with a layer of chocolate shaped like euro coins. Delicious and fun, because you could also play shopkeeper with them in the schoolyard. And that’s exactly why this was such a smash-hit snack.
Smoeltjes
Smoeltjes have been a huge hit in the schoolyard for 25 (!) years. These small speculaas cookies are printed with a smiling face. I’ll be honest: I think they look pretty creepy. Fortunately, you don’t notice that once you put them in your mouth. They are definitely delicious.
Brinky’s
When a former colleague pulled a Brinky out of her lunchbox recently (how old school!), I immediately had one of those oh yes! moments. I had genuinely forgotten about them, but in the early 2000s, about half the schoolyard would pull this cookie out of their bags during the break. A wonderfully tasty cookie with a layer of vanilla cream and a chocolate coating.
Bisc&
Now this was an invention! A biscuit topped with a layer of chocolate in the style of Twix, Bounty, M&M’s or Mars. The Twix and M&M’s versions in particular were SO delicious. This is one of those cookies I still regularly think about—and, in a rebellious mood, consider starting a petition to bring them back to the shelves.
