At work today I saw some cookies in the break room that must have been left over from some meeting, not long after my group had muffins and bagels in our monthly meeting. This brought to mind one of my favorite Disney Silly Symphonies, The Cookie Carnival, a lavish and fascinating cartoon from 1935.
Does this remind you of Dorothy’s reception four years later in The Wizard of OZ, with the parade, the Lullaby League, and the Lollipop Guild? At 2:30 into the cartoon, watch what the cookie guy (with Goofy’s voice) does with the eclairs. Obviously, the animators knew exactly what they were doing to get the attention of the adults in the audience. And I don’t think the angel food guys were interested in marrying anybody but each other.