How much could Robert E. Lee eating a cookie change history?

Don't forget the butterfly effect on weather, thus causing mass droughts in germany in 1905, delaying the first world war.
 
But wait: the White House is on Pennsylvania Avenue! Clearly, he is supposed to run for President against Lincoln in 1860.

"You watching, Abraham? See, these cookies are electoral votes.
I - eat - your - cookies. I eat them all up!"

Lee running against Lincoln for president is a novel idea and should be written up sometime. Maybe Lee is the champion of the Union and smashes the South and wants no Reconstruction but Lincoln thinks otherwise.
 
He eats a magic cookie which turns him into a crazy blue fuzzy creature that only wants to eat cookies. He then moves to Seasame Street and becomes cookie monster. :)
 
He eats a cookie that wasn't baked long enough, as a result he succumbs to Ergot poisoning (like LSD). He goes on a mind-trip and becomes a cookie junky (mebbe that's what happened to the cookie monster huh?)
 
The ultimate result of Lee's cookie would be a Jewish state established in Uganda instead of the Middle East. Of course, since the Ottoman Empire survived and prospered after the Central Powers won the war in 1916...
 
Southern Bakery? (Play on T-191.)

No, that should be "How Few Remain" - the story of what happened if the horseman delivering Cookies to Lee had got peckish and eaten most of them. As a result, Lee doesn't trust him with the cigars that were to be sent with General Order 191 and so uses a more reliable courier. The rest is alt-history.

Cheers,
Nigel.
 

Hashasheen

Banned
Robert E. Lee was enjoying some cookies made by his beloved daughter, who was not as good a cook as her motehr. Upon taking another cookie and biting into it, the cookie exploded from too much air and pressure in it, leading Robert E. Lee to get the idea of explosives. After many sleepless nights, Robert E. Lee creates the first sucicide bomber brigade made up of slaves, and uses them to great effect on Union flanks during the war, winning him the battle at antiem, when a squad of the bombers attacked the Union headquarters; killing the commanders and leading the army to crumble, allowing Lee to take Washington D.C with ease, executing Abraham Lincoln for war crimes against the people of the Confederacy. Sucicide bomber tactics became widely studied in the world's premier military academies; from Japan to Britain.
 
Young Bobby Lee eats a cookie. He thinks, "If I could find a way to make a lot of these really cheaply I could sell them for a profit".

The R.E. Lee Bakery opens in Richmond and is an immediate success. It soon branches out into major US cities.

When war threatens the franchise Lee moves west to Oregon selling to the pioneers there. When it ends two years later he's already made so many contacts he stays.

In 1881 his eldest son inherits the company. By 1956 Lee Cookies will be a household brand.
 

Japhy

Banned
When Lee meets War Department Officials in 1861, when in OTL they offer him command of the Union Army of Northern Virgina (Kinda Ironic...), Lincoln suggests the War Department place a plate of Cookies and Milk on the Table. The cookies are in fact, so delicious that when Lee eats them he decides to remain loyal to the Union, and thus wins the Analogous Battle of Bull Run, Richmond falls...

Unfortunately Jeff Davis escapes with the Congress further south, and the South is forced to fight a defensive war, as the Surviving Commander from the Virginia front, James Longstreet wants. With Longstreet, Albert S. Johnson, Joe Johnson and Nathan Bedford Forrest in command of the reduced South's defenses, the War turns into a Bloody Trench Warfare and Raiding Conflict from North Carolina to the Mississippi. As a result Union Casualties are so high that In the 1864 elections Lincoln loses to the Democratic Compromise Canidate, the sacked, great, cookie loving, Major General Robert E Lee...
 
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