Yep. At one place I worked, we did a big off-site disaster recovery exercise every year.

Most of the time it went fine, but there were multiple years where a restore didn’t work due to an issue with one or more tapes. Either the data and/or indexes couldn’t be read, or the tape physically failed during the restore.

Backups aren’t backups unless they’re tested.

Oh, for sure it is. But as another poster mentioned in a comment, it’s not just cookies - pretty much any baked dessert goes well with milk.

That might be part of it. My experience is mostly with the Midwest and southeast US, where there are a lot of dairy farms.

But I totally agree.

I’m in the US. It seems to be pretty common in the Midwest and Southeast, at least. I’m not sure about other parts of the country.

Thinking about the places outside of the US that I’ve been to, I could certainly see it not being that common. Maybe it’s mostly a US thing.

Maybe it’s regional and/or cultural.

If I had to guess, I’d say I’ve probably had milk with cake more often than I’ve had milk with cookies.

This is what happens Larry, when you find a stranger in the alps.