Look to the Cookie, A Black and White Cookie on Roosevelt Island

Do you remember this scene from Seinfeld’s “The Dinner Party”. It is one of my favorites episodes and not only because I love black and white cookies. There’s also the Chocolate Bobka and Saddam Hussein.

JERRY: Uhm, The thing about eating the Black and White cookie, Elaine, is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate And yet somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie all our problems would be solved.

ELAINE: Your views on race relations are fascinating. You really should do an op-ed piece for the Times.

JERRY: Um, um, Look to the cookie Elaine. Look to the cookie.

I recently came across a post by The Black and White Cookie Review blogger describing a trip to Roosevelt Island. He visited “wonderful Roosevelt Island” with a friend, played some frisbee and had a “wonderful dinner” at the Trellis Diner until he was persuaded by his friend to But after taking a bite:

OOOOUCH! Hard. Like cold steel. It didn’t taste like anything I’ve had before. It was kind of gross. Not vanilla, more just like…white something. And the cake…blecch. Too much cake with too little taste. It was like eating styrofoam.

…Hmm. The chocolate side tastes VERY familiar. What could it be? Matt was able to pinpoint it. Like chocolate Betty Crocker frosting. Ahhhh!

And yet, the entire overall taste was unpleasant. I love when a cupcake has Betty Crocker wapped on top of it, but the thick, dry cake made the cookie a chore to eat. We were both very very disappointed. Especially Matt, who as an innocent and less experienced cookie eater than me, was unprepared for the dreams-dashing mediocrity and depressing anticlimactic taste of the below average black and white cookie.

And they always LOOK so good!

Perhaps, Jerry Seinfeld is right, the lack of a good home grown black and white cookie may explain some of the conflicts and controversies that exist here on Roosevelt Island.More on the best of New York Black and White cookies from Gridskipper You Tube video link from Seinfeld is here.