Food of the Eighties, Mama's Cookies
Picture Gallery
Loading images, if this message doesn't go away you may need to enable javascript in order to see pictures
No pictures available yet!
Description
They were chocolate cookies with a hole in the middle and sugar sprinkled on top. I can't find them anywhere. They were out when I was a kid then they were gone. They brought them back a few years ago and took them away again. They were my favorite cookies.
Links for more info
The following are links about Mama's Cookies you may find interesting. Also check out the other pages.
- Shur Good Biscuit Company - (report)
I miss the cookies too!! - - (report)
I also grew up with the great taste of Mama\'s Cookies. I guess I was luckier than most because the factory was just few miles from my home in Chicago.
User Stories and Comments
The following are comments left about Mama's Cookies from site visitors such as yourself. They are not spell checked or reviewed for accuracy.
Oh my GOSH, they were soooooo good. I wish they would come out in the stores again. They'd be a HUGE hit! (Especially for all of us baby boomers!!!!!)
One person told me they thought Voortman had the rights to make them.
Bring mamma cookies back. They were sooooo good.
I loved those cookies!! Just hearing about them makes me feel good. Pleeeeze bring them back!!
I loved the Macaroon ones. The Sugar ones were awesome! My kids teethed on these cookies. Please bring them back!
In the 70s-80s, I "put up" cookies and crackers at the then-existing Chatham Supermarkets in the metro Detroit area. Whether it was during open hours or on night crew, we sold at least a case/day. BRING THEM BACK! (My nostalgia for things genuinely good is lonely...) :o)
I'm glad I found this forum! I've been telling my children about Mamas cookies for 20 years. There is nothing like them. The Sugar ones were my favorites. Pecan was the bomb too!
Let's bring 'em back !!!!!!!
Loved mama's cookies...any news on them? Also, does anyone remember a chip commercial from the 70's or 80's where the person is eating chips in the desert and there mouth gets so dry, but they can't stop eating them? What was this commercial for?
omg...wur iz da mamas cookeiz at? they dont sell the mamas cookies anymore, the baseball cookies, or the coated candy popcorn?! this suckz! plz bring them back!!!!
I remember when I was a kid, Everyday coming home from school I would stop at the corner store and buy a box of mama cookies the sugar ones was the best then the macaroons. A few years ago i found the at a local grocery store and now they are gone again.We want them back !!!
I heard that the ShurGood cookie company bought them out. They were a huge hit in Cincinnati! I miss them too.
My fondest memories of Mama's cookies are when I was growing up in Cincinnati. They would have them in nursery at church. I wish they would make them again!
need some 80's cookies....sweet!
Uncle Al advertised them on his show in Cincinnati!! Also....Barq's Red Cow, Orange Cow, Grape Cow, Black Cow.....Now we can hardly find the Red Creme Soda and Root Beer! But loved those Mama's Cookies....chocolate, dunked in milk...Mmmmmmmmmm GOOD!
The Oreo cookie 100 calorie pack "thin crisps" are the closest thing I've found to the chocolate Mama's cookies. I miss them!
I remember doing the twist on the stump at the Uncle Al show then going home and pounding the lemon ones!
I always pounded the Macroon ones!
Chocolate was the beast
I found Mama's Oyster Crackers at HometownFavorites.com and it has the same logo. Why can't they make the cookies??!!
They used to sell these at my campus cafeteria in the mid 80's. Two big-ass cookies for only 50 cents. And so much sugar! Gives me a head-rush just thinking about it.
I loved those cookies so much. We dipped them in milk and also in pear juice. They were a real family favorite here in Cincinnati.Bring them back!
I know where those are, you can find Mamas cookies in vending machines in Connecticut!
I loved mama's cookies. I've been looking for them for years. If anyone finds them please post it on the internet. I remember them from the Uncle Al Show in Cincinnati. My sister and I have both been trying to find them.
I remember Mama's cookies were advertised during the Uncle Al show too...Found the oyster crackers at Jungle Jims in Cincinnti...would love to try the cookies again!!
I have been looking for the white shortbread cookies with the red jam in the middle. They were Mama's cookies too, right? Are they out of business?
Who makes the oyster crackers? Maybe we can start a campaign to get them to make the cookies too???? I read that story that the Business Courier had - why didn't they keep making them??? Everyone I know who grew up here loves those cookies!
As a baby boomer I CRAVE Pecan Mama's Cookies when I'm not feeling well. My Mom used to give them to me with hot tea. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!!!!
Oreo thin crisps are pretty close to Mama's chocolate cookies. But I want the real thing!!!
I would love to let my kids try Mama's cookies--they were great. I was on the Uncle Al show in '76 and "starred" in a Mama's cookies commercial--would love to show that to my children
have to say chocolate was the best!!! and macroon. i seen some a few plus years ago but never since. here in cincinnati. bring them back!
I'm craving those chocolate and pecan Mamas cookies, too. Can't find them anywhere so I thought search the internet and found the rest of you are searching too.
I loved those Mama's cookies so much as a little girl, I was tell my son about them today and thought, I see if I could get some on the internet. I find so many other's miss those GOOD! cookies to!
My uncle worked for Mama's cookies, and in the 60's I went to the factory and took those coconut cookies right off the line! I still remember them... real good!
I have been wanting these Mama cookies for a long time too folks. I grew up in the Cincinnati area in the 60's. I remember the lemon ones. Chocolate was my favorite though. Someone would make a fortune if they were brought back.
I just bought Trader Joe's new Meyer Lemon Cookie Thins, and it brought back a flash of Mama's Cookies like nothing before or since. They are pricey for cookies ($4.99/box), but if you loved Mama's the way I loved Mama's, they are worth every last cent.
I am originally from Ohio and absolutely loved the Mama's Sugar Cookies. I would trade anything right now for a box of those cookies. As many of you have stated, I tried to explain to my children just how good these cookies were and they will never know unless we can find the company to produce them again as a flashback item. Happy hunting to find something similiar
I've been talking about these cookies with my sister for a few years. We remembered them and love them. I couldn't find them anywhere and decided to google them and found this site. Chocolate were the only ones my mom bought. They were awesome and they should bring them back.
BRING MAMA COOKIES BACK
I too was a Mama's fan. The closest thing today is a cookie by Anna's. You can find them at Meijer I think and also sometimes at Big Lots, but they just aren't the same.
I googled Mama's Cookies today, after hearing that Uncle Al has passed away. I remember eating these and watching his show when I was little in the early 80s. I loved the macaroons. I wish they would come back out with them.
When I was really little, we used to wear them on our fingers like rings!!!!
Please bring these cookies back!!!
PLEASE BRING THEM BACK. MY 5 BOYS LOVED THEM ALSO.WE LIVE IN CINCINNATI OHIO. ALMOST EVERYONE I TALK TO REMEMBERS THEM. MY FAVORITE WAS CHOCOLATE/
I lived in the Cincinnati/N.Kentucky area growing up in the 70's.I loved the Mama's sugar & chocolate cookies...I remember after school eating those delicious cookies along with a Barq's Lemon-Lime soda! mmmmmmmm man I miss those days!!
Man i have been looking for those green box sugar cookies for years I'm from cincinnati and i live in tennessee ans i reaqlly wish i could find those cookies....man i miss a good thing
i too miss those mamas cookies the chocolate ones were my favorite. for any one watching their sugar intake try the murray sugar free chocolate bits. they come in the 100 calories packs. they are very close to the real thing.wheres the milk?
My Grandmother and Father worked at Mama's cookies in the 60's through early 80's. The factory was then located next to the Ford City Shopping Mall in Chicago on Kostner and 72nd st. They'd often come home with bags full of goodies, those were the days!!! Mama's was sold to Salerno's located in Niles, Il. in the early 8o's. They continued for some years to package and distribute cookies with the Mama's logo but eventually fazed them out.
LOVED Mama's Cookies...they were given away on the 'Uncle Al Show'. We grew up in Covington, KY and you could purchase them for 99 cents per box...they were thin, round and had holes in the middle...they came in many flavors, choc, lemon, vanilla, pecan and macaroon...Wonderful cookies....wish they were still made.
Submit a story or info about Mama's Cookies
Music Poster Books
,Check out ChuckyG's reviews of books about concert posters and other music picture books.
Fads/Fashion
