Today one local Royal Dansk tin resting in a spread of Thanksgiving desserts with just a few Danish butter cookies left in its paper cups shared gratitude for its final moments of not carrying grandma’s sewing supplies.
“I’ve loved every moment of actually holding inside what my container says I contain—royal cookies—from the moment they were no doubt delivered to me in a factory from a castle kitchen, to when I was bought at Scandinavian Specialties at the last minute by a shamelessly cheap relative, to my final moments now being mindlessly binged by someone who’s clearly just disassociating to get through today’s Larson family gathering,” said the Royal Dansk tin as a second to last cookie was plucked from it. “Some only get to carry cookies for a day. Some get to carry cookies for years … I’m just grateful that I was given the opportunity that few tins even get: I got to carry around cookies that barely anyone has strong objections to.”
Though it’s hard to think about, the tin said sometimes knowing the reality of an inevitably ominous future is exactly what builds appreciation for what you have now while you still have it.
“There comes a time in every cookie tin’s life when they must at best become a container for extra buttons no one will ever remember exist until some hungry person looking for a sweet opens me up with an extreme look of disappointment on their face,” the tin said. “But that time is not now – not yet. For now, I shall be grateful to enjoy these last moments of proudly having my top off.”
After dinner, Larson family matriarch Matilde confirmed she has a plastic Safeway bag of extra sewing supplies she cannot wait to deposit into the tin for the remainder of its useful life. At press time, the Safeway bag was still hoping it might be used for at least holding a dirty plunger.
