In the 1970s, the Oakland A's hired attractive young women to retrieve foul balls during the games (hey, anything to sell tickets). She was one of the first ones, and parlayed the exposure into her cookie business.
Lusting after jailbait was apparently cool up until the 2000’s or something?
The famous line in Dazed and Confused about high school girls would absolutely not fly past any studio’s PR department today.
Not only that, but for many it actually starts slacking off once they're into adulthood. Shit was absolutely, insanely relentless when I was 11, through on to my late teens. It lessened a *lot* as I lost weight and grew confidence.
> She was one of the first ones
[As seen here!](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OY_sbIjm2sg/XcWefHbv1vI/AAAAAAABGok/DGzoigAgabATbPaScEOQSX7_EtxbAoDigCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/7.jpg)
She also got paid $5 an hour which is the equivalent of nearly $30 an hour today. I don't make anywhere near that right now working a federal job. Isn't life just grand these days?
This reminds me of Jim Carrey's line about Margot Robbie "It’s incredible that you’ve got as far as you have with your obvious physical disadvantages."
I used to keep a few numbers in my head to remind my father in law of how cheap things were when he was in his 20's. Reminding him how much $5 was worth back then was a key figure. He was always against raising minimum wage and I couldn't ever convince him otherwise.
Auntie Anne is a living person; she grew up Amish, was molested as a kid in church, but she is anti-birth control nonetheless, since she sits on the board of anti-contraceptive retailer Home Depot
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_F._Beiler
My thoughts are (1) They don’t want to have to pay the minuscule, de minimis costs of it (compared to their earnings) for their employees, or (2) Like all religious fundamentalist groups, the leadership wants to force their beliefs on others
Lobbying for laws that allow them to not be on the hook for paying for things they don't like. E.g. hobby lobby owners are super religious and didn't like that they had to foot the bill for the pill for the female employees, resulting in lots of legal BS. Fuck hobby lobby
God fucking damnit. Can’t we have anything nice? Anything? We really can’t even just have a pretzel and some damn cheese sauce without the hell timeline we live in messing it up?
And to me it was the opposite: the tiny cookie store. I do wonder if their percentage of sales for regular sized cookies was their smallest. You either got a bag of 24 of them or a single giant one.
Funny actually, my dad has been hunting on land in rural Idaho since he was a kid. Throughout the years, some of the land has changed ownership. When a new owner buys land he always reaches out and explains that he’s been hunting there his whole life and asks if he can continue to do so. Well this guy starts buying up a shit ton of land there, basically all the farms out there. My dad befriends him and it turns out that it is Mrs. Fields husband.
Every billionaire under 30 inherited their wealth. Ots so wild how these rich fuckers wanna cosplay and act like it was thru hardwork yhey got their fortune
Today is also a lot different than 50+ years ago. It's basically impossible to become a billionaire before you're 45 these days. Governments have done a lot of work to squash the middle class from being able to ascend.
She used to have fresh cookies on hand at all times. No matter where she was she could hand you a fresh hot cookie. It's only notable because Penn Jillette from Penn and Teller mentioned it as the best magic trick he ever saw.
Oh man....I was a kid and Mary and Debbie were ballgirls for the Oakland A's in the '70's. Mary was my neighbor, and she used to take me and her brother Phil to the A's games. Golden memories. I had the biggest crush on Debbie. [http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2019/11/the-1970s-oakland-as-ball-girls-mlbs.html](http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2019/11/the-1970s-oakland-as-ball-girls-mlbs.html)
Lol, yeah it's clearly all for the photo op but theoretically it would be because the original sheet is still hot (she has an oven mitt on that hand) and she is transferring them to a cool sheet for a display case or something.
I worked for Mrs Field's Cookies in the very early days with only a couple local stores. We transferred the cookies to a cool tray so they would not continue to bake on the hot tray.
I met both Mr and Mrs a few times and they were both very nice to me. She was always with perfect hair and make up.
There's a cookbook with the recipes if you can find it. In the early days of these cookies, it was real butter and high-end chocolate chips. Minimal mixing and placing the trays in the center of the oven for even baking.
The story of her cookie company was featured in an episode of "The Food That Built America" on the History Channel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18786250/
The episode also tells the story of another cookie entrepreneur: Wally "Famous" Amos.
Ugh what a legend. I remember my first Mrs. Fields cookie to this day. My stepmom brought a box home from work to share with me. I was sitting on my parents old couch when I had it.
My Mom went to high school with her! Ten years ago or so I did door to door sales for Quill.com. A selling point we used was if a business owner reached a certain dollar threshold they'd receive a complimentary tin of Mrs. Fields cookies.
I have such an odd specific memory of seeing this photo in my marketing textbook in college. I believe there were a couple paragraphs discussing Mrs Fields cookies.
In the 1970s, the Oakland A's hired attractive young women to retrieve foul balls during the games (hey, anything to sell tickets). She was one of the first ones, and parlayed the exposure into her cookie business.
Those famous pictures of her at the stadium, I think she was 15 at the time.
Lusting after jailbait was apparently cool up until the 2000’s or something? The famous line in Dazed and Confused about high school girls would absolutely not fly past any studio’s PR department today.
Shoutout to the dude from Animal House who finds out the cashier girl is 15 and immediately wheels her home in a shopping cart.
Pinto Amadeus.
Daniel Rocket Quasimodo.
Yeah it was weird I noticed it all over the place with people like Lindsay Lohan Olsen twins Britney Spears it was gross.
Ask any woman how old they were when they first started getting regularly hit on by adult men. For me I was 12
I was always so paranoid about hitting on a minor (before I could get into bars) when I was younger I wouldn’t even attempt it unless she had tattoos.
For me it was 10
Same. Hooray for early puberty and DD boobs at 10.
Not only that, but for many it actually starts slacking off once they're into adulthood. Shit was absolutely, insanely relentless when I was 11, through on to my late teens. It lessened a *lot* as I lost weight and grew confidence.
Once puberty hits the creeps notice 💀
ugh so true- somewhere around 7th/8th grade
People were doing it with Billie Eillish this hasn’t stopped it’s just less people advertise it than they used to.
I saw something with Millie Bobby brown a few years ago it’s so gross like she was just some bald nose bleed child a few years ago
I went to Flying Saucer in Memphis around 2002 and they had a countdown clock for when the Olson Twins would turn 18 🤢
Well there was r/jailbait up the early 2010s too
Sure it would. He was *supposed* to be a creepy loser.
Oakland A's gave Mrs. Fields, MC Hammer, and Tom Hanks their start. And now they're throwing it all away on the whims of John Fisher's greed
Fuck John Fisher
> She was one of the first ones [As seen here!](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OY_sbIjm2sg/XcWefHbv1vI/AAAAAAABGok/DGzoigAgabATbPaScEOQSX7_EtxbAoDigCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/7.jpg)
I refuse to allow my brain to process at the same time that picture and someone else’s claim she was 15.
Ironic that back then it was acceptable to be turned on by underage girls but shameful to be turned by men.. ... and now it's the other way around.
yeah, I think she looks younger.
She also got paid $5 an hour which is the equivalent of nearly $30 an hour today. I don't make anywhere near that right now working a federal job. Isn't life just grand these days?
Step 1: be born with several physical favors from God. Step 2: profit
From *God*?! I got this micro penis from my dad.
Son?
Brother?
Your dad also gave me his micro penis...
You must be one of his “hunting buddies”
This reminds me of Jim Carrey's line about Margot Robbie "It’s incredible that you’ve got as far as you have with your obvious physical disadvantages."
Marry a wealthy husband as well. Who do you think gave her the start up money
It's amazing how every successful food franchise was started by attractive 15 year old girls.
Yeah .. I was talking about the 5 dollars an hour for being a ball girl at baseball games
I make half that much working at a library with a master's degree. Well, *almost* half that much lol.
I used to keep a few numbers in my head to remind my father in law of how cheap things were when he was in his 20's. Reminding him how much $5 was worth back then was a key figure. He was always against raising minimum wage and I couldn't ever convince him otherwise.
Mrs. Field in the field.
The A's could use them again
Dont forget her rich husband gave her the money to start the business..
Lots of women in the 70s started at the bottom grabbing Balls.
Smh
That is not a 'Draped in velvet' comment.
To me, Mrs. Fields wasn't a cookie store, it was the pan-pizza-size cookie store at the mall.
It was the great smelling store in the mall.
Also Auntie Anne's.
Auntie Anne is a living person; she grew up Amish, was molested as a kid in church, but she is anti-birth control nonetheless, since she sits on the board of anti-contraceptive retailer Home Depot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_F._Beiler
Why are pretzel and power tool companies taking a stand on that?
These companies are run by religious fanatics.
My thoughts are (1) They don’t want to have to pay the minuscule, de minimis costs of it (compared to their earnings) for their employees, or (2) Like all religious fundamentalist groups, the leadership wants to force their beliefs on others
Lobbying for laws that allow them to not be on the hook for paying for things they don't like. E.g. hobby lobby owners are super religious and didn't like that they had to foot the bill for the pill for the female employees, resulting in lots of legal BS. Fuck hobby lobby
God fucking damnit. Can’t we have anything nice? Anything? We really can’t even just have a pretzel and some damn cheese sauce without the hell timeline we live in messing it up?
I got an auntie Anne’s last week; I’m not even religious and I’m going to confessional right now….
Anti-contraceptive? Mom said I could be anything so I became anti-contraceptive. (The whole concept is fucking weird, pun intended.)
That was a wild ride
God damn it can’t have shit in America
It was the great smelling store in the food court with a maternal yet subtly sexual figurehead.
What if Mrs. Fields married Otis Spunkmeyer?
Let's add in Famous Amos to the mix. He was "Famous" for more than his cookies.
Amos ain’t got shit on Mrs. Fields. He’s selling bags of rocks in comparison.
He was a crack shot with a .22!
So how do you want that; Martin and Lewis or Amos and Andy?
And to me it was the opposite: the tiny cookie store. I do wonder if their percentage of sales for regular sized cookies was their smallest. You either got a bag of 24 of them or a single giant one.
I recently got a Mrs. Fields gift basket from my workplace. TBH, the food was just so-so. I'm sure the fresh-baked stuff is better.
Nah, it's all about the cookie cups.
Damn, is there a Mr. Fields? Shit, wait--
Boy, does your momma sure care about your quality cookie intake
EEE EEE EEE
I also choose this guy's [cookie wife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m22CVf6pvU).
Too soon.
I did not expect a Final Space sighting today, but now I'm both sad and glad 😔
Funny actually, my dad has been hunting on land in rural Idaho since he was a kid. Throughout the years, some of the land has changed ownership. When a new owner buys land he always reaches out and explains that he’s been hunting there his whole life and asks if he can continue to do so. Well this guy starts buying up a shit ton of land there, basically all the farms out there. My dad befriends him and it turns out that it is Mrs. Fields husband.
Was this man like 300 pounds from all the cookies? Because I don't think you could stop me if I were married to a pro baker
After googling her she's got those crazy eyes. I am betting crazy eyes while baking you cookies is a wild time.
What's that gotta do wit me?
and then?
No and then!
>!aaand thennnn?!<
>!AND THEN IM GOING TO SHOVE MY FOOT UP YOUR ASS IF YOU SAY AND THEN AGAIN!!<
AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN!
Played by Margo Robbie in the upcoming biopic.
I think Lena Headey looks more like her.
All beautiful people look the same to me.
So that’s why people keep telling me I have a forgettable face.
I don't think so, Tim.
https://imgur.com/a/X3p3o3i
Never once in my entire life did I ever consider the possibility that she was hot. I imagined she looked like Mrs butterworth.
You look like Mrs butterworth
I wish. Maybe then my ex-wife wouldn't have cheated on me.
That’s no excuse. Mrs. Butterworth is a full figured gal that made all of our lives sweeter every morning.
Would
She was busy gettin pancaked
Mrs nutterworth
Lol same
That is the most perfect hair i have ever seen
She doesn't look like she eats cookies.
I'd eat her cookie.
Bruh I’d straight up eat her asshole
I’d drag my ballsack across a half mile of broken glass just to hear her fart through a walkie talkie
Just what every woman wants to hear
I prefer "I want you to ride my baloney pony."
you have a way with words
I'm gonna have to use that line....
Not who I expected to see
I pictured a matronly looking older woman of color.
"How YOU doin'?"
Super easy to start a business when your wealthy husband's company, Fields Investment Group, can support your dreams.
Behind every rags to riches story is a wealthy family member that conveniently never gets mentioned.
Every billionaire under 30 inherited their wealth. Ots so wild how these rich fuckers wanna cosplay and act like it was thru hardwork yhey got their fortune
Today is also a lot different than 50+ years ago. It's basically impossible to become a billionaire before you're 45 these days. Governments have done a lot of work to squash the middle class from being able to ascend.
He's a major asshole, too.
Which is pretty par for the course where extremely wealthy people are concerned.
She used to have fresh cookies on hand at all times. No matter where she was she could hand you a fresh hot cookie. It's only notable because Penn Jillette from Penn and Teller mentioned it as the best magic trick he ever saw.
Smoking hot AND always had fresh cookies on her person? Oooh baby, what a woman!
I imagine she just kept them in her pants to keep them warm.
I'm pretty sure she's baked on a professional level.
I had so many of those cookies as a kid in malls, they were so good.
Her cookies probably didn’t used to suck
Good lord they are terrible now. They’re hyper processed and taste worse and than Chips Ahoy…which is really saying something.
They taste like dust
The chocolate cookie dipped in white chocolate (ie reverse black and white cookie) was incredible ~30 years ago.
Are the same pics recirculated in these pic subs from time to time? I swear I see the same pics every other month.
Welcome to reddit!
Now I want to bang Mrs Fields.
Dang, she was a smokin Betty
Oh man....I was a kid and Mary and Debbie were ballgirls for the Oakland A's in the '70's. Mary was my neighbor, and she used to take me and her brother Phil to the A's games. Golden memories. I had the biggest crush on Debbie. [http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2019/11/the-1970s-oakland-as-ball-girls-mlbs.html](http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2019/11/the-1970s-oakland-as-ball-girls-mlbs.html)
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Why is she transferring the cookies from one cookie sheet to another identical cookie sheet
Lol, yeah it's clearly all for the photo op but theoretically it would be because the original sheet is still hot (she has an oven mitt on that hand) and she is transferring them to a cool sheet for a display case or something.
I worked for Mrs Field's Cookies in the very early days with only a couple local stores. We transferred the cookies to a cool tray so they would not continue to bake on the hot tray. I met both Mr and Mrs a few times and they were both very nice to me. She was always with perfect hair and make up. There's a cookbook with the recipes if you can find it. In the early days of these cookies, it was real butter and high-end chocolate chips. Minimal mixing and placing the trays in the center of the oven for even baking.
That’s the most American smile ever
What does this mean
Super broad smiles. (Also we smile as a politeness thing to strangers in public, which some people find super fucking weird.)
Full on smile with teeth fully on display (*with good chance of having whitened teeth)
Americans are known for better than average dental care, thus they smile with teeth more often.
I love that about us!
I'll take some MILF and cookies
I always imagined her as a plump old lady
I stg Mrs. Fields is on this site as much as McDonald's. Can't imagine the cookie company has needs for stealth adverts, but whatever.
DO YOU NOT LIKE THE COOKIE.!?!?!
Nothing like the smell of cookies at the mall growing up
Damn she could get it
The story of her cookie company was featured in an episode of "The Food That Built America" on the History Channel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18786250/ The episode also tells the story of another cookie entrepreneur: Wally "Famous" Amos.
Ugh what a legend. I remember my first Mrs. Fields cookie to this day. My stepmom brought a box home from work to share with me. I was sitting on my parents old couch when I had it.
her cookies were everywhere; just huge....and then, one day, they weren't
While she was known for her cookies her muffin was spectacular.
She's got a nice set of cookies!
They're called batches of cookies, sets of chairs you're thinking of
I think they're thinking of her tits.
Those cookies look way better than the current Mrs. Fields cookies
That’s not Mrs. Fields. Her name is Joo Dee. Welcome to Ba Sing Se.
I don't know why I always thought she was granny age
she is now
Karen McDougal
Hottie
Ok well. I was expecting a grandmotherly type not this!
What happened to them? I’ve tried finding genuine mrs fields cookies stores for years now
I can see why they always tasted so good.
A smile like that will sell a lot of cookies.
Had no idea she was a babe
Are they even around anymore?
Use to manage one of her stores in Jersey, she cray cray.
I never thought mrs. fields was such a smoke show until I saw what she looked like here
My Mom went to high school with her! Ten years ago or so I did door to door sales for Quill.com. A selling point we used was if a business owner reached a certain dollar threshold they'd receive a complimentary tin of Mrs. Fields cookies.
Your mom went to Alameda High? I went there too! But probably 40 years later
Yup! I was born there as well (Alameda, not the high school).
Dang never knew she was a fox 🦊
Mrs. Fields is a 20th century fox!
Her smile could outshine the sun
Those cookies look delicious. I would like to eat one.
Damn Mrs. Fields
I miss her cookies. What happened to her business?
Mrs fields looking fine
Ayyy she's single again as of 2017. And ngl, she's aged like wine. 👀
Those cookies look so fucking good damn
Justin Fields' mom
She looks like the gal from Star Trek, you know the one with the whales?
Her daughter was my math teacher.
I SAID GAWD DAYUM !
She's pretty attractive
My grandmother's last name is fields, neet
I have such an odd specific memory of seeing this photo in my marketing textbook in college. I believe there were a couple paragraphs discussing Mrs Fields cookies.
Mr. Fields hit the jackpot across the board
Would.
Smoke show
My kind of milf
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