Man's Ingenious Plan To Stop Roommate Eating His Cookies Backfires

A Florida man has revealed how the plan he hatched to stop his roommate eating his freshly baked cookies ended up backfiring badly.

Americans love baking, especially cookies. A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Crumbl Cookies, found that 82 percent bake their own cookies while half like to bake their own at least once a month.

Maybe that's why one baker, who asked simply to be referred to as Dan from Jacksonville, has been increasingly protective of his baking efforts.

So much so, in fact, he hit upon a way of stopping his hungry roommate from eating them. "I was just whipping up a batch of cookies real quick, and I decided to look through my seasoning cabinet and I saw a box of food coloring that I've never used before," Dan told Newsweek. "I thought it would be fun to try it out."

The food coloring in question was a distinctively dark blue that gave the resulting chocolate chip cookies an otherworldly feel.

"I have had incidents when my roommate would eat my cookies and I wouldn't have any left, so I kinda killed two birds with one stone because I thought it would not look appetizing for them to eat it," he said. "But boy was I wrong."

Dan posted a picture of the resulting cookies to Reddit under the hand u/Background-Belt-2202. Some spotted a major flaw in his plan. "That actually made them look more interesting," one wrote, with another commenting: "Mmm mint chocolate chip cookies."

Dan was surprised at how popular the post was. "I honestly was not expecting it to gain this much attention," he said. More importantly, those predictions turned out to be correct. "I left like six cookies closed in a Tupperware out on the counter overnight and they were gone by the morning," he said.

This isn't the first time his roommate has got into his food, but Dan isn't planning on making a big deal out of it. "He ate all my Pop Tarts one time and he drinks my juice sometimes," he said. "But I don't really have a problem with most of it as long as it's not taken advantage of."

He's already come up with a new strategy too—his latest batch of cookies were made to look even less appetizing thanks to their decidedly brown coloring. "I made another batch to make it look like poop," he said.

It worked. "I ate them all myself," he confirmed.

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