Introducing the Black-and-White Cookie Ice-Cream Sandwich, a Truly New York Concoction

[LiberalElite]

http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/black-and-white-cookie-ice-cream-sandwich.html?_ga=1.42320806.286447546.1411751012

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Is there a more iconic New York cookie than the black-and-white? And, given the fact that the ice-cream sandwich was invented circa 1899 on our own gritty streets by a pushcart vendor, is there a more quintessentially New York frozen-dairy delivery system? No and no.
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Brilliant!

[immoderate]

1. Like this?

--imm

[DesertFlower]

3. i'm a former new yorker and

i've been longing for a black and white cookie. there was a place in the mall on queens blvd who had corinna donuts. aside from the best donuts i ever had they had great black and white cookies. wonder if they're still there.

[LiberalElite]

5. Which mall? the

one on the corner with Woodhaven Blvd.?

[DesertFlower]

9. yes. that's the one.

[LiberalElite]

13. They completely re-did that mall maybe 10 years ago -

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1465462!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/reaction-kenya-mall-shooting.jpg

JC Penney's name is on the front but that store is at the back, no longer on Queens Blvd. By the back I mean the additional city block that the was expanded to.

[DesertFlower]

17. looks so different. they had orhbach's which changed

to another name on one corner and abraham & strauss on the other. i used to take the express bus to work and the last stop was at the mall. i could see the clothes in the window.

is the round macy's still there?

i also used to shop on austin st -- had some nice small stores there.

can you believe i've never been back to NY. my late husband used to go on business trips and to visit his sister in baldwin. my family had all left except for an aunt and uncle in howard beach. my sister NanceGreggs was the first to leave. she moved to toronto in '74.

[LiberalElite]

18. Macys is still there - but it isn't round

Ohrbachs and A&S are long out of business. I don't know much about the Austin St. stores. I'm not over there much.

[LiberalElite]

7. Fear not! - you can order them online

http://www.zaro.com/product/black-white-cookies/

[DesertFlower]

10. thank you. i worked with beth zaro. she

was an attorney at NY Telephone.

OMG. $46.50 to ship them

[LiberalElite]

15. Yikes!!!!! This site (different company) has free shipping

http://www.blackandwhitecookies.com/collections/all

[DesertFlower]

16. thanks. nt

[LiberalElite]

4. That's It!

[shenmue]

2. Nom nom nom

I'm from Queens. Loves me some ice cream and cookies.

[DesertFlower]

6. i lived in forest hills till '89

when we moved to phoenix. i miss the food in new york. the diners were amazing -- open 24/7 and you could get anything from breakfast to seafood. my favorite was the georgia diner on queens blvd.

[shenmue]

8. Yay!

[LiberalElite]

11. Georgia Diner is still there!

Great food and lots of it! Still has the traditional diner menu that goes on for pages.
More

for olde lang syne: http://georgiadiner.com/

[DesertFlower]

12. even when we ate out with friends in manhattan

on the way home we'd stop at the georgia diner to pick up desert.

thanks for the link.

[LiberalElite]

14. They still have those glass cases filled with cakes nt

[Historic NY]

19. I used to trade my white half for a black half.....

in school. I'm a chocaholic.