Cookie jar
{{short description|Jar used specifically to store edible treats such as cookies or biscuits}}
{{about|a jar that holds cookies}}
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Cookie jars are utilitarian or decorative ceramic or glass jars often found in American and Canadian kitchens. In the United Kingdom, they are known as biscuit barrels{{cite web | last=Behrens | first=David | title=Souvenirs from career of Yorkshire's aristocratic skipper shed new light on sport's golden age | website=Yorkshire Post | date=June 4, 2018 | url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/souvenirs-from-career-of-yorkshire-s-aristocratic-skipper-shed-new-light-on-sport-s-golden-age-1-9192055 | access-date=June 24, 2018}} or biscuit jars.{{cite book | last1=Westmoreland | first1=S. | last2=Allen | first2=B. | title=Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook | publisher=Hearst Communications | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-58816-280-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coA1FiirGxUC&pg=PA303 | access-date=June 24, 2018 | page=303}} If they are cans made out of tinplate, they are called biscuit tins.{{cite book | last=Franklin | first=M.J. | title=Biscuit Tins, 1868-1939: The Art of Decorative Packaging | publisher=New Cavendish | year=2001 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OE9AQAAIAAJ | access-date=June 24, 2018 | page=20| isbn=9781872727936 }} While used to store actual cookies or biscuits, they are sometimes employed to store other edible items like candy or dog treats, or non-edible items like currency (in the manner of a piggy bank).
Other uses
- Sometimes the phrase "keep your hands out of the cookie jar" is a way of telling someone to stay out of other people's business, even when doing so seems lucrative.
- In financial reporting, "cookie jar accounting" is the practice of increasing reserves during good years and "eating them up" during bad years. This process of income smoothing is allowed, but non-disclosure – especially in order to consistently reach performance targets – is illegal.
- In computer programming, a "cookie jar" is an area of memory set aside for storing cookies.
=Popular culture=
- "Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?" is an elementary school song.
- The American band Gym Class Heroes wrote a song called "Cookie Jar" which was released as a single in 2008.
- Musician Jack Johnson wrote a song called "Cookie Jar", on the 2003 album On and On.
- South Korean girl group Red Velvet released their debut Japanese EP titled #Cookie Jar in 2017, along with its lead single of the same name.
Gallery
File:Rocket01.JPG|A rocket ship from American Bisque, ca. 1960. Space themes were popular as the space race began in earnest during the late 1950s
File:Funny Animal 01.JPG|An American Bisque cookie jar using the Funny Animal theme popular in America during the 1950s
File:Biscuit barrel 01.jpg|Wooden biscuit barrel from Ireland, early 20th century
References
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External links
- {{commonscat-inline|Cookie jars|lcfirst=yes}}
- [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/arts/auctions-warhol-s-world-on-view-gems-and-cookie-jars.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes+Topics%2FPeople%2FW%2FWarhol%2C+Andy Warhol's World on View: Gems to Cookie Jars]
- [http://www.wisconsinlife.org/story/collector-found-his-passion-cookie-jars Collector Found His Passion In Cookie Jars] Video produced by Wisconsin Public Television