The ANZAC biscuit is the only cookie that I am competent and trusted to make without help from my wife.

In keeping with the idea that these things originated as a minimal cookie for the trenches of WWI, I make them without coconut.

For the Gilmore Girls, yes. However, you could cover yourself by insisting that you though the show had something to do with David Gilmour.

For the ANZAC biscuits, you have a pass.