Shem Banbury - Kiwi Kids News Editor
An Arizona woman has kept a cookie for 85 years after receiving it for Valentine’s Day in the 1930s.
Penny Rickhoff has kept the heart-shaped dessert in a jewelry box since it was passed down by her mother — who saved it as a memento of her first love.
The family heirloom even bears the name of her mom’s then-boyfriend, Bus, in icing.
Baking was often used as gifts back then as people did not have lots of money.
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17 Responses
Eww that’s dirty
i wonder how it taste
What a family treasure #
Aww that’s so lovely
looking gross
what normal person does this
ewwww it would taste bad!
must taste like eating rotten bisuits
Eww yuck
Yum! 🙂 😉
aww so sweet get it
woww YUM as long as it wasent moldy YUMMY!
that is so nice! but it is kinda gross,i mean it would smell right? do biskits even smell? I dunno? and also why was her mother in love with a bus????????
ewww and awwwww
That’s nice, I mean… Well… I dunno it’s kinda weird
wow that is so cool
Must taste so good so s/he kept it