RIP Wally Amos

Cookie entrepreneur has cashed in his chips.
https://people.com/wally-amos-dead-famous-amos-cookies-creator-8695565

 

Debbie Fields Forever!!!

Loved Famous Amos cookies though. And he was probably an even better dude than his cookies were good. Originally a talent agent for William Morris? He signed Simon and Garfunkel? How did I not know these things? An amazing life.

 

Damn. RIP to a man who created a business literally from scratch.

Pallbearers include Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, the Pillsbury Doughboy and the California Raisins.

 

Air Force veteran, top talent agent, entrepreneur and prominent literacy promoter and TV host.

RIP to a diverse life.

 

That's pretty weird. After eating lunch in the hospital cafeteria, I wanted something sweet.

Bought a package of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies from a vending machine.

It's been 30 years since I bought Famous Amos cookies from a machine. They were fresh and good too.

 

Out of an admittedly limited selection, he was the best commencement speaker I ever heard.

 

Toward the end, before the dementia took over, he was trying to put together another cookie business. Even made a pitch on "Shark Tank."

The video equivalent of tl;dr.

 

When my mom worked second shift when I was little in days before (with reason)factories feared lawsuits from outside people walking the floor, my dad would take us to eat “lunch” at about 7 p.m. with my mom in her break room. He never said it, but I just think my dad missed my mom. They’d see each other for about 30 minutes in the morning, and that was it. I’d only see her for even less during the school year. So we’d drive 15 miles there and back to see her for 20 minutes. We’d walk the floor and go to the break room with a packed lunch, and my dad would always buy me a packet of Famous Amos cookies. That’s what eating one of those cookies makes me think about. The smell of oil from the presses, a lunchmeat sandwich, a few bites of cookies and a few rare minutes with my mom. Thanks, Amos.

And now I’m Don Draper and the fucking Hershey bar story. Jesus.

 

The Famous Amos heyday was relatively brief. Then he was overtaken by Mrs. Field's.

But in his moment, the cookies coming out of the oven on Sunset Blvd. were the best anywhere.

Rest.

 

I swear every single 80s sitcom had an episode inspired by his story.

I remember Facts of Life, Too Close for Comfort and Taxi had such episodes. Amos made an appearance in the Taxi one.

 

Very sad that he could not call himself Famous Amos after he sold the company, there was a lawsuit and it got ugly. Corporate America at its worst.