I remember my sister talking about Tweety Cookies after one of her early summers at Camp Mystic. The oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies made by camp co-owner Tweety Eastland took on mythical status at the camp in Hunt.
My sister was a camper at Mystic for four years, starting in 1982 with her residence in Bubble Inn, and she excitedly regaled my parents about how the campers who won cabin clean-up or some other award around camp would win the cookies. Knowing my sister’s fastidiousness, she probably won early and often.
“Delicacies,” is how my sister 40 years later described their import to the campers…