To think “period cookies” is ridiculous…

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Just seen a post on local fb page asking if any bakers can make some “period cookies” with a photo from Instagram. Various iced cookies - some depicting pants with pink gusset, others are sanitary pads, and some say “welcome to the big girls club”.
Is it me or has society lost the plot?

I don't think its something to be celebrated lol 40 years of bleeding for 3 months of the year 😂

Wait till you find out about hen and stag cakes. Ejaculating penis is a bit old hat if anything.

Succinctly put

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Really expected period cookies to be chocolate and molasses or something like that…which would not be unreasonable!

Quite. It's probably a "me" thing, but I was given to understand that periods were private and not to be talked about in front of men. But it was the 70s and you couldn't buy pads from supermarkets with the rest of your groceries. If you didn't want to spend money on a bus to the big Boots in town, where you might have some anonymity, you were stuck with the local pharmacy and the bloke behind the counter. So much for periods being private and not a subject for men!

I remember that, she wanted to buy her a necklace when she started getting her periods. That was weird and the cookies sound absolutely gross🤢

My immediate reaction is WTF 😂
If my mum had bought me some period cookies and said welcome to the big girls club I'd not only have been mortified, I'd have seriously thought she'd lost it 😁
Needs a "Have a fantastic period" banner to top it off like Kryten's 😁

😳I already do this. It's about the only thing that makes having the fuckers worthwhile. And because my monthly Jaffa Cake intake is for medicinal purposes there are no calories in them. Actual made up fact.

I went to a birthday party once and he had a giant titty cake. Nothing phases me

Cookies? Some people have no chill 🙄

I hate the trend of every event big and small becoming An Event, which needs commemorating. Preferably involving the purchase of some tat or the other and definitely involving being public about it. Some things are nice thoughtful things appropriate to your own family or a little gesture to bring some cheer to yourself or others - people have always done that. But now there are some many "things"!

Spring? Door wreath, Easter eggs, Easter decorations, egg hunts. Breastfeeding like countless millions of women before you? Photoshoots, milk necklaces, inspirational shite on FB. DD starting her period? Cookies, care packages. Fancy a day out at the zoo? Book a time slot/obsessively check traffic/brace for parking wars/queue to get in/download app if you want a park map. Did a good deed in the street? Photos/videos, social media posts trying to track down the frail older lady you gave a carrier bag to because the handle of hers broke at the bus stop to make sure everyone knows how saintly you are make sure she's ok. Ok maybe that one is a bit specific and not entirely relevant 😄 Any one of these things would be fine, but all together it's all just a bit much.

My long winded point is - no wonder half the population are anxious wrecks half the time. We have overcomplicated life so much. I do feel better for a little rant though, thanks!

I was a virgin teenager in the late 60's early 70's and used tampons.

I would have been mortified if my Mum had bought me those, she bought me a new pack of pants and some of her preferred brand of pads. unfortunately my first and many subsequent periods were hell on earth (PCOS). I took steps to stop them all together. Don't even want think about them now.

I so miss the 😅reaction button!

Why the fuck have the bloody tampon biscuits got faces?!

I think my DD would have found these hilarious. Had they been around when she started, I would have got some as a joke.

As it was, we had a celebratory family dinner in a posh restaurant and toasted her and I then took her clothes shopping the next day.

I didn’t want to give her a care package or painkillers or anything like that. I wanted her to think of it in a positive way, not something that she now has to endure and needs care packages to get through.

What the? That's just not necessary

What a revolting idea. Although I am wondering if perhaps the same local bakers might like to whip up a batch of "erectile dysfunction" cookies alongside these ones? An iced flaccid p-nis alongside an unimpressed gingerbread lady perhaps? A traybake piped to look like the covers of Hustler/Playboy magazines?

Important that clients of both sexes do not miss out on these tasty treats, I feel.

Really? Of course, your daughter, your perogative.

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Indeed. My mother (b.1937) used to make fun of her older sister (b. 1932) to me and my sister (b. late 1960s) before we even got our periods because our aunt had refused to use tampons from the outset.

Not my thing, but I wouldn't clutch my pearls over it really. One of my best friends is a nurse and I've helped her make a chocolate cake for her colleague that was based on the Bristol Stool Chart, so I can't get stressed about a cookie with a tampon on it or whatever.

During the recent thread where someone wanted to buy her daughter a necklace with a red stone in it to commemorate her first period, I thought that was utterly cringe. I loathe all that some po-faced, earnest bullshit about celebrating fertility and the power of wombs and aren't-vulvas-brilliant etc - I invariably think 'It's biology, not a super power, so calm the fuck down'.

But while Congratulations On Your Period cookies are not something I'd ever consider purchasing myself, I think they're at least a) a sugar-based snack, which I would never turn down while on my period, and b) mildly humorous/ironic.

They didn’t all say no, I remember the post.
The idea of a sanitary towel being depicted in cake form isn’t appealing at all though.

Me too. Currently clutching a hot water bottle waiting for the cramps to pass. Please can someone make these?

I remember it well, that horrible lingering dull ache ❤️