Cookie jar
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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[1] or biscuit jars.[2] If they are cans made out of tinplate, they are called biscuit tins.[3] 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
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A rocket ship from American Bisque, ca. 1960. Space themes were popular as the space race began in earnest during the late 1950s
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An American Bisque cookie jar using the Funny Animal theme popular in America during the 1950s
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Wooden biscuit barrel from Ireland, early 20th century
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