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TIFU by revealing that my cookies had no secret ingredient

For some details. I put my toddler in an early preschool prep class. It's one or two times a week and kids get left with teachers for about an hour. Classes are small 5-7 kids with two teachers.

This small classroom setting makes it so that parents typically get rather close as they tend to hang out while waiting for their children. I do not do this. I take that hour and do my weekly grocery shopping. My wife sometimes does stay but she only occasionally does.

Now he's been in this for about a year now. And the class occasionally sets up holiday get-togethers. With other classes bigger groups and parents bring food kinda like a big potluck.

For safety reasons everyone has to disclose what is in the food. You never know what someone might be allergic to. And about a year ago in the fort gathering my wife said I made amazing cookies and offered for me to bake for the event. That was fine with me I made the cookies and everyone loved them. Especially a certain group of moms and kids. The ingredients were disclosed. Simple recipe sugar, butter, all purpose flour, vanilla extract, chocolate chips. That's all.

Now this went on for a year in different events. That same group loved my cookies even at times asking if they could take some home. I would always say yes if there were still some at the end. Not like I expected to have any to take home.

Now this is where the problems came in. One day one of the husbands of that mom group asked me for the secret ingredient. I didn't have one. But I did have a set of instructions on how to keep them soft. Timing and all that. He followed that and got a close softness. But not the taste.

This apparently had been a bit of a point of contention in that group because of one reason or another. Finally the group came and asked me about it. I told them the process and ingredients I used as well as amounts. They blew up. They were apparently a well known crunchy mom group in the school. I use store bought everything and was accused of trying to poison them and their kids by not disclosing all the chemicals inside the ingredients. When they read a simple ingredient they assumed it was some home grown naturally processed sugar I somehow made? God's no I was not going through all that trouble.

I thought it was really funny and burst out into laughter, which I acknowledge was not appropriate. But it seemed really funny to me because they absolutely loved these cookies. And it was because they hadn't had anything with sugar in so long that their bodies were craving it.

TLDR I've been feeding a crunchy mom group regular cookies for a year now and they just found out that they were not in fact some all natural home grown ingredient cookies. And are absolutely livid.

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