Well, I will be up for the taste test, I'll pick some up at Safeway today. If they have Animal Circus Cookies.

Well, not at the Safeway here in FiDi. I'll have to look at the one closer to home.

I tried ours ... they say Nabisco Classic but they LOOK like Mothers...they were ok but didn't seem to be as good as the original :(

We bought the animal cookies a couple of weeks ago and they are different.

The problem lies in the base cookie. I think it was Ms. T that figured it out...but they now seem to use animal cracker cookies (like the circus box ones) and simply frost them like the old Mother's circus animal cookies.

The kids liked them and I guess they were fine, but they aren't Mother's. :(

I think I figured it out: they are now only made of 97% sugar instead of the old 98%

Really??

The package looked so close that I didn't notice the name was different....

Those of you with old batches should let them go stale for your taste test, so you'll like the new ones better

I read that as: those of you with old bitches...

And I thought - let them go stale? Is that code for getting old?

Ok, I did a side-by-side comparison of the animal cookies.

First off, the ingredient listing is different. If it's the same recipe, then why is the ingredient listing different? It seems the ingredients are the same, just in a different order which may mean different amounts of the ingredients, or not. The nutritional information is the same, so there can't be too much difference in amounts of fat or sugar.

As far as taste, at first bite I thought it was the same. But after a few I started to notice a suttle difference. The cookie was crispy, I had no issue with that. But there was a difference that seemed like the original was buttery or creamy. The new ones more dry and shortening- like. They contain Hydrogenated Palm oil so they may have changed the amount or even the supplier. It would make since they would change ingredients to the ones they already work with rather than those Mother's works with. It's also interesting that they contain Hydrogenated Palm oil because it was the second ingredient in the listing , but there was a "no trans fat" lable on the front which is missing from the new package, and it's been lowered in the new listing.

So, there is a difference, but to my taste it's small enough to be acceptible.

You know - gasp - I guess I was never all that big a fan of Mother's cookies.

Sad to hear they might not be as good as they used to be. Means I'll most certainly be avoiding them.