Peak Freans
 

I used to eat these cookies by peak freans called playbox cookies. They were different shapes with colorful icing and designes stenciled on the top of various toybox toys. I am looking everywhere for the tin. Can anyone help me. Please email me [email protected]

I loved the Playbox cookies! Don't tell me they still make them. Or do you mean you are looking for an old tin?

WOW! I loved Playbox cookies too! We lived in Detroit & would drive over to Windsor just to get them. Maybe we should direct the company to this site to see how many people really would love to have them again. Good luck searching for the tin. If you Google Peak Frean tin, several items come up, but listed as antiques.

Try EBay!

I used to eat these as a kid. We got ours in Canada.

Well, in order to search for it you have to spell it right - Peek Freans. There are at least 3 different tins for sale on e-bay under Peek Freans and 3 steel signs under the spelling Peak Freans.

Bonne chance.

I don't see any of the classic tins with the cookie picture there. I have one but won't give it up.

Peak Freans are a very serious cookie!

<i> I haven't heard that in years! :D</i>

Scarlett - you took the words right out of my mouth. Just as well, I'd only have sprayed cookie crumbs anyway!
I am still not clear is erryn looking for the cookies or the tin? I thought they were called &quot;chess&quot;- or is that something else?

If you're a grown-up or plan to be one...

EDITORS?

First: http://www.kraftfoods.com/peekfreans/ The ubiquitous Kraft Foods company is now their owner. The Playbox cookies seem to have disappeared except as collectibles.

Then: A Peek-Frean story from the 1960s near Boston: When my father died leaving a very young wife and 6 children, people brought us all manner of foodstuffs. The soups and casseroles kept us going, but the 4 or 5 boxes of Peek Freans kept on going and going themselves. To our American tastes, used to highly sweetened things like Oreos and ChipsAhoys, they were bland and mealy and a bit on the lardy side. But my mother would never throw them out; and when we asked for a dessert, it was always &quot;fruit and a cookie,&quot; meaning a Peek Frean -- after month or two, that was guaranteed to get a groan.

In short order, any time someone made an unpopular proposal, told a stupid joke, or had an idea obviously doomed to failure, the response in our household was &quot;that went over like a Peek Frean.&quot;

(Sorry, for those of you who grew up loving them. Note: we didn't get the Playbox cookies -- I've never seen them.)

wow! i googled &quot;playbox cookies peak freans&quot;, and found this thread. too wild! my sibs and i loved them. i dont know why i thought about them, but im glad there are others who liked them as well. mind you, i dont remember the tin them came in...hehe

erryn - did you have any luck finding a tin?

oops...&quot;them&quot; should have been &quot;they&quot;, in the last line.

April, if you catch this message, what can I do to induce you to send me a photo of the Playbox Cookie Tin. My wife, who grew up on these cookies, would be tickled.