Saturday, 14 August 2010
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Dough-Eyed: Cookies and Controversy from My Dough Girl in Salt Lake City, Utah
This is a guest post from CakeSpy.
Which would you like first? The good news or the bad news?
The good news: My Dough Girl Cookies, a bakery in Salt Lake City, makes amazingly delicious cookies. I mean, like, really good. Fat, chewy, buttery, and flavorful morsels, sweetly packaged in the cutest retro sleeves. I recently had the good fortune to try several when SLC-based Cake Gumshoes Rob and Carol came to Seattle for a visit and brought me four specimens for me and Mr. Spy to sample.
We tried the "Lilly" (lemon sugar cookie with lemonheads and lemon glaze), which was bright and sunny and -- surprise, crunchy!--from the addition of sweet-sour lemonhead candies, the "Sandy" (the special flavor of the month, with macadamia nuts, zucchini, and milk chocolate), which was an unlikely, but oddly addictive combination--
--as well as a rich, filled chocolate cookie, and what I think may have been the "Betty" (oatmeal cookie with fruit bits), which was moist, buttery, and not at all as healthy-tasting as it may sound. In a good way.
The bad news: My Dough Girl Cookies won't exist for much longer. You see, one chubby little white guy doesn't like this Utah-based bakery's name very much at all--the Pillsbury Dough Boy. As it turns out, owner Tami Cromar recently received a cease and disist" order from General Mills, saying that she'd better change the name of her bakery. According to The Salt Lake Tribune,
The national company, which owns Pillsbury, said the name is too similar to its iconic Dough Boy character and represents trademark infringement. The letter also suggests that because My Dough Girl sells frozen take-and-bake cookie dough — just like Pillsbury —the Utah product could tarnish the company’s reputation.
Rather than fight, Cromar has decided to comply with the request, which includes a gag order that forbids her to talk to news media. She referred calls and text messages from The Salt Lake Tribune to her attorney, Catherine Lake. Calls to Lake’s office also weren’t returned.
But don't despair, because there's more good news: Although the name will change, the cookies will not. As the article goes on to say,
"I have to stick to baking so cookies can still be a part of all our futures,” Cromar wrote earlier this week. “ If the Dough Girl fights, there will be no cookies."
And that would be seriously bad news.
What do you think, is "The Dough Girl" too close to the "Pillsbury Dough Boy"?
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- About Me: Cakespy.com is a Dessert Detective Agency dedicated to seeking sweetness (literally) in everyday life. We do this by writing about bakeries, conducting baking experiments, and picking the brains of bakers and food artists, and finding awesome products for lovers of baked goods. The Cakespy crew is comprised of about 6 or 7 Cake Gumshoes throughout the US, and is headed up by Head Spy Jessie Oleson. Jessie O is a freelance writer and illustrator, whose writing appears on DailyCandy.com, and who has illustrated for various companies including Microsoft, Chelsea Paper and iPop, and regularly provides illustrations for the publication Taste of Home. Also, if you're in the Seattle Area, check out Cakespy Seattle here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/cakespy/
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Comments (16)
that last cookie looks so heavenly
Hubba hubba :(
uggh.. phillsbury - capitalism at its finest ladies and gentlemen
The lemon cookie sounds HEAVENLY. Lemony and sweet and crunchy.. it's making me hungry!
I don't really see the problem Pillsbury is having but that said at least its staying in business, and only the name is being changed
Umm! these food are so delicious.By seeing these picture, I wish to check these sweets.It is thing of sorrow that the shop name have to change.The previous name was better than the present name.
After all I will produce more quality food with the new brand name.
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omg that lemon one looks AMAZING. and sounds amazing. maybe minus the candy inside of it O.o
and it's not close at all. besides, "the pillsbury dough boy" isn't their company name!!! and it's copywrited, so, I don't see the problem!! So dumb -.-
Couldn't they change the name? Why should we all have to suffer?
@ohletitbe@xanga - you mean it (Pillsbury Dough Boy) ISN'T copyrighted, right?
wow, i ididnt think it was that serious. like there cant be more than one company that makes cookies and sells frozen ones too?? so whats she gonna change the name to???
Yummm ;_;
You had me at the lemon cookie, but lemon cookie is my most favorite thing. Thank you very much for sharing.
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The lemon sugar cookie looks scrumptious!
@mz_d0rkabl3@xanga - America IS a capitalist country....
Your place is valueble for me. Thanks!…
Hummm…looks delicious! This is my first time here and these little beauties just blew me away! nice post