I don’t know if it was the treasure island theme, the two tiered Italian carousel or a contact high from too many helium balloons, but in the late seventies, Omni International Mall sold the most incredible chocolate chip cookies ever made. To this day, if any one in my family mentions that they had a really great cookie, the first question is always, “Omni International good?” Although it’s hard to find a bad chocolate chip cookie, everyone has a different criteria for what makes a great one. The Omni cookies met every possible criteria simultaneously. They were cakey but crisp, gooey but dunkable, and then they were gone. The Omni went from being an upscale retail experiment housing Pucci and Hermes to a tropical shipwreck and sometimes Miami Vice location that prompted your parents to ask if your doors were locked when driving past. Continue reading ‘Cookie Hunt’
