Homage to Wafer Cookies

A loooooooooong time ago, during the summers when most days were "take your daughter to work" days, I tagged along with the R & R Tool and Die crew to watch as they worked on the wafer-making machines at the Holland-American Wafer Company.

An ancestor of the machinery I saw

At the end of the conveyor (but before the cookies were packaged), I got to try one (some?) of the new batch of cookies. I remember one time in particular that a Holland-American worker handed me a cookie to eat, and I must have looked pretty excited about it because it got a good laugh.

Not a staple at home

Since then, I doubt that I've had wafer cookies more than once or twice a decade... until... 

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Hazelnut wafer cookies

How these gofret have stolen my heart! The ones I like best are filled with a tasty spread like Nutella. So, more often than not, I buy one package of these on the way home (to share with Alex, mind you!). They cost about 50 cents, soooo tempting. (I like to pretend that they are not millions of calories because they are just wafers, you know?) Simple pleasures...