Mountain View Stone Cookies munchies review

dreamlogic.net's MUNCHIES . Mountain View Stone CookiesCan you say ow? You might not be able to after eating a Mountain View Stone Cookie. These thick golden brown oblong discs are forged for fantastic gum-busting fury!! You’ll wish you were stranded on a deserted island somewhere just so you could invent new uses for them; building tiles, adze blades, frisbees, wakeboards. Who woulda thunk something so potentially painful could be so yummy?

Baked fresh (although seemingly awesomely tough and “stale”) in a little yellow corrugated tin-swathed bakery in Mountain View on the Big Island of Hawai’i, the stone cookie is much like the building it’s baked in. Bland as heck with just a tinge of sweet, I can’t explain why I gravitate towards them. Maybe it’s a Big Island thing. Maybe it’s because it’s so steeped in tradition. That might be it because even though they now sell chocolate chip (with a generous constellation of the teeniest tiniest choco dots) and soft versions, I still crave the plain.

Mountain View Bakery [BAKERY][$]
(808) 968-6353 - 18-1319 Old Volcano Rd - Hilo, Hawaii

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dreamlogic.net -- KRIS KOBAYASHI-NELSON

Kris Kobayashi-Nelson is an avid food adventurist who has tried everything from jellyfish to sea cucumber to chicken gizzards. She loved liver and onions with ketchup and cayenne pepper ice cream as a kid.

 

  1. God, I love those cookies. We need to get a bunch more next time, hun.

    Chris Nelson on June 23, 2007
  2. Are these available online? You’ve made me very curious. Thanks!

    Elise on July 17, 2007
  3. Sounds crazy.. why haven’t I heard of these?

    Todd on July 19, 2007
  4. Thanks for reminding me about these! The taste is rather bland, so I can’t explain why I like the taste either, but I like to dip it in coffee like Hawaiian biscotti!

    James on July 20, 2007
  5. I’m so curious as to what these taste like….

    Peter on October 18, 2007