“Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?” is a jocular one-liner that has been cited in print since at least 2006. It’s not known who first used the line.
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dsnette
Posted 20 June 2006 - 09:46 AM
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Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?
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Darin
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Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?
8:49 PM - 11 Jan 2008
Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2008
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I am watching “White Christmas” for the 20+ time because it is a tradition Pepper started ages ago with her family, so now we watch it with our kids.
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God Minded
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ok look everyone i got a question.why do we bake cookies and cook bacon, dont yuu think we should cook cookies and bake …http://lnk.ms/4rPtH
10:49 AM - 12 Dec 2009
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February 2012, Boys’ Life, pg. 52, col. 2:
Warped Wiseman Wonders: “Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?”
Sean Siebert, Bergenfield, N.J.
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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