A pig-themed cookie jar

Cookie jars are utilitarian or decorative ceramic or glass jars often found in American and Canadian kitchens. In the United Kingdom, they are known as biscuit barrels[1] or biscuit jars.[2] If they are cans made out of tinplate, they are called biscuit tins.[3] While used to store actual cookies or biscuits, they are sometimes employed to store other edible items like candy or dog treats, or non-edible items like currency (in the manner of a piggy bank).

Other uses

  • Sometimes the phrase "keep your hands out of the cookie jar" is a way of telling someone to stay out of other people's business, even when doing so seems lucrative.
  • In financial reporting, "cookie jar accounting" is the practice of increasing reserves during good years and "eating them up" during bad years. This process of income smoothing is allowed, but non-disclosure – especially in order to consistently reach performance targets – is illegal.
  • In computer programming, a "cookie jar" is an area of memory set aside for storing cookies.

References

  1. ^ Behrens, David (June 4, 2018). "Souvenirs from career of Yorkshire's aristocratic skipper shed new light on sport's golden age". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Westmoreland, S.; Allen, B. (2004). Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook. Hearst Communications. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-58816-280-9. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  3. ^ Franklin, M.J. (2001). Biscuit Tins, 1868-1939: The Art of Decorative Packaging. New Cavendish. p. 20. ISBN 9781872727936. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
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