Cookie jars are utilitarian or

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ceramic or glass jars often found in American and Canadian kitchens. In the United Kingdom, they are known as biscuit barrels or biscuit jars. If they are cans made out of

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, they are called biscuit tins. While used to store actual

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s or

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s, 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

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, a "cookie jar" is an area of

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set aside for storing

cookies A cookie is a sweet biscuit with high sugar and fat content. Cookie dough is softer than that used for other types of biscuit, and they are cooked longer at lower temperatures. The dough typically contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of ...

Popular culture

* " Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?" is an elementary school song. * The American band

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wrote a song called " Cookie Jar" which was released as a single in 2008. * Musician Jack Johnson wrote a song called "Cookie Jar", on the 2003 album '' On and On''. * South Korean girl group Red Velvet released their debut Japanese EP titled '' #Cookie Jar'' in 2017, along with its lead single of the same name.

Gallery

File:Rocket01.JPG, A rocket ship from American Bisque, ca. 1960. Space themes were popular as the space race began in earnest during the late 1950s File:Funny Animal 01.JPG, An American Bisque cookie jar using the Funny Animal theme popular in America during the 1950s File:Biscuit barrel 01.jpg, Wooden biscuit barrel from Ireland, early 20th century

References

External links

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Warhol's World on View: Gems to Cookie Jars

Collector Found His Passion In Cookie Jars
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