Does anyone make a good local version? I had one recently on Long Island with a good chocolate layer that challenged my long term dislike for these.
The spongy cookie House of Bagel’s uses pleased me. But their chocolate icing tastes just like the cheap icing that kept me away from B&W cookies since I was a kid.
I’d always thought it was a strictly cultural thing— low quality ingredients on a boring cookie. Then I had one that I liked. I think it’s one of those things where 1% of the product is good, and 99% is crap but people rationalize as good (i.e. a cultural thing)