The cookie is one of the greatest inventions of the last millenium. It's taste has pleased little children and adults alike all over the world. However, this exceptional innovation had a very contriversial and often hazardous past. The cookie first originated in a suicide attempt. A young man who found that life was no longer worth living decided he would kill himself with a poisonous mini-cake: the usual form of suicide at the time. He opened the oven and put the cookie on a plate. Having forgotten to close the the oven door, the flames at once burst out of the oven and burned him alive. When the centurions came in so that they might inspect the death scene, they descovered the mini-cake, and at once ate it unaware of its poisonous effects. However, it was a blanket of joy and deliciousness which greeted them and an abyss of chocolate and bliss rather than the portal to a grusome disgusting death. Thus the cookie was created. The cookie spread rapidly throughout the world, tingling the tastebuds of those who tried it. In the early 12th century it reached the emperor of Japan who loved it so much that he made it the national symbol and put it on his flag. But constant accusations of his immaturity by other nobles and leaders forced him to paint the cookie completely yellow; claiming that it was the sun, not a cookie. However this led his prosicutors to claim that it was a sugar cookie that was on his flag and he was immediately executed and the cookie was now painted red by the more careful emperor who came after. For the next 3 or 4 centuries the cookie lived in peace. In the 16th century not all was well for the cookie. Some, corrupted by the power of the cookie, started mutating and deforming it; replacing sugar and calories with fruit and jam. At this time a new foe was born. The Fig Newton was the greatest enemy to the traditional cookie as it desturbed the mind with its intentions for a healthy snack. For four centuries the cookie became more and more deformed, leading to more and more cookie related deaths until finally, a company named Nabisco created the oreo. The oreo broke all records of calories and sugar grams per cubic centimeter and seemed to be the solution to the ever growing dietary cookies and fruit filled cookies. However, the corrupted cookies returned the oreo with an evil so great not even the newest innovation, the double stuffed oreo, was prepared for it. In 1990 weight watchers was launched, causing great profit losses to the cookie industry. This great loss in cookies can only be compared to the destruction of Atlantis. The amount of cookie technology that was lost can only be imagined. Experts say the plans for the triple stuffed oreo were destroyed as well as talks for the chips ahoy "2000 chips delicious" campaign. Today, cookies are still endangered by the weight watchers company. But there is still hope for the cookie. People all over the world are eating cookies everyday. And with the increase in obesity, the future of the cookie is looking somewhat promising. However, the days of the true cookie may be numbered.