Black and white cookie
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A black and white cookie is a dessert coverered on one half with vanilla frosting, and on the other half by dark chocolate frosting. Widely known as the black and white cookie, in some areas (mainly Boston and Upstate New York) the cookie is known as a half moon. The cookie is technically not a cookie, but a frosted circular drop cake. It is more cake-like in texture as compared to a crunchier cookie.
The black and white cookie is often seen as a peculiarly "New York" snack, cemented by its appearance in the Seinfeld episode The Dinner Party, in which Jerry Seinfeld bases his philosophy of race relations on the cookie, saying "look to the cookie." In the episode, Jerry and Elaine are at a bakery where Elaine wishes to purchase cake for a dinner party. Jerry insists on buying a black and white cookie, touting its taste and social value to the uninterested Elaine. According to Jerry, the key to eating a black and white cookie is have both the "black" and "white" frosting contained in each bite, as "nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate." Having bought the cookie, Jerry raises it and gives a nod to a black man across the bakery. The man, also eating a black and white cookie, raises his cookie and returns the nod. Unfortunately, Jerry later vomited due to eating the cookie. This broke his vomiting streak he had held since June 29, 1980.
Also, in the episode "The Understudy," Bette Midler asks Kramer to get her a black and white cookie.
Harry Hemstrought, a former architect, sold the first ever black and white cookie in Utica, NY in 1921.
Al Michaels, on a Sunday Night Football game in 2006, was presented with a black and white cookie; he shared it along with John Madden.
