Two weeks ago, we asked you to help us get Liz Lovely back onto Santa’s “Nice” list. Here’s the original email, in case you missed it! Below, we’ve posted the best entries, including the winner. We figured we better document this stuff publicly in case Santa reconsiders for next Christmas!
The Winning Letter
Dear Santa,
I am writing on behalf of Liz Lovely’s questionable status on your List. I am unsure why. I have been investigating the potential fence riding issues. It has come to my attention that one of the elves has it in for Liz. Jealous of Liz Lovely’s amazing and tasty treats. Really just one of the bakery elf’s that has been upset that you, Santa, have been requesting Gluten Free Sinckerdoodles and Triple Chocolate Mint cookies. I have have been able to document through various UFO reports that there have been reports all through the year of coming from the North Pole and always seem to track directly to Waitsfield, Vermont where the Liz Lovely’s facility is located. It was a dead give-a-way to see an animal shed with feed bins. Upon further questioning of various staff, I over heard the mention of Vixen and Dasher awaiting for the S. C. order.
I purpose that the bakery elf of the North Pole has in a jealous rage moved Liz Lovely’s name from the Nice list to the Naughty list, however this was not possible. Since the database system would not allow a direct place onto the Naughty list having been on the Nice list for so many years.
So you see Santa, one of the elf’s, your elf’s needs to be given some love and generousity this Christmas, make sure the North Pole Bakery Elf gets a special box of Liz Lovely’s and please remove Liz Lovely’s from the questionable list. Liz Lovely’s is nothing but pure NICE!!
Sincerely,
Julia A. Gorrell
PS: You have good taste Santa to love the GF Sinckerdoodles, they taste just like my Nana’s!!
More Great Letters (in the order they were submitted)
Dear Santa,
You may have gotten the impression from eating Liz’s cookies that she
is very naughty indeed. They seem positively sinful. However, Liz
should be on the nice list for the following reasons:
1) She uses 100% natural ingredients that make both the earth and our
bodies a better place.
2) She loves animals and uses only vegan ingredients.
3) She uses recycled materials as much as possible to limit her
company’s impact on the environment.
4) Small businesses are the saving grace of our economy, and by
providing jobs she is improving lives in her community.
5) She reminded me that I can still have delicious food even though I
can’t have gluten. I’d forgotten how amazing cookies can be!
6) Just look at her cute face and awesome hats. She obviously deserves
to be on the nice list.
See you at Christmas,
Mattia
Dear Santa,
Isn’t it obvious why Liz Lovely should be put on the nice list? If it weren’t for her cookies, there would be massive roving hordes of cranky, cookieless vegans out there who, frustrated by an unsatiated sweet tooth, would be doing all kinds of things to get themselves on the naughty list (i.e. stealing vegan lollipops from babies, yelling at sweet neighbor kids to get off their lawns, pretending to help old ladies cross the street, only to abandon them halfway, etc.). This surge in those on the naughty list could only lead to an increased demand in coal for their stockings. This, in turn, leads to increased coal mining which we all know is bad for the environment. Glaciers will melt even faster than they already are. Hey, isn’t your house on a glacier? At the very least, it would flood your basement. So really, isn’t it in everyone’s best interest to put Liz Lovely back on the nice list?
-Amy Kotthaus
Dear Santa,
While I’m not sure why Lovely Liz made your naughty list, I hope as quickly as she went on, she’ll be coming off and right back to the nice list, where she belongs. There are a number of reasons why Lovely Liz belongs on the nice list:
1.Lovely Liz has passion — and not just any ol’ kind of passion, but real passion and love for the work she does. She strives to deliver perfection to her customers and has done that all year long.
2. She uses real food — look around Santa, I’m sure you’ve seen over the year numerous people making unhealthy choices. Lovely Liz is whippin’ out some delicious eats that not only are full of flavor but are better for the body as well.
3. She is making products available to people who have to live their lives day in and day out without dairy, eggs or wheat. I think this in itself speaks volumes!! While food are options are now becoming more readily available, Lovely Liz has been on top of this since day one.
4. Lovely Liz is also doing her part in saving the environment buy trying to use as much green packaging as possible. Someones got to save the planet, I’m sure you’ve heard the rumors about 2012 … and I know for sure you want to deliver gift next Christmas, don’t you?!
5. And most importantly Lovely Liz was nice enough after all to make us these delicious treats!
I while reading this letter you were sitting down enjoying a glass of milk and my favorite Lovely Liz cookie, the Snicker Dudes. I beg of you Santa, please move Lovely Liz back to the nice list!! And if you haven’t treated yourself to one of Lovely Liz’s delicious treats, I suggest you get your hands on some … hopefully after a sweet yet healthy treat you’ll realize that after all Lovely Liz is a name that should be displayed on the nice list!
- Lauren Lelli
Dear Santa,
I am writing you this letter in hopes that you will decide to put Liz Lovley on your “Nice” list this year for Christmas. I truly believe the company deserves to be showered with presents so delicately designed by your sweet elf’s. Liz knows all about delicate designs and it shows in her cooking! Not only are all her cookies vegan and organic, they are great for the environment, our bodies, and guilt free! All of their baked goods are made with love, which is very hard to find these days given all the of fake, unnatural ingredients these larger companies wish to put in our food to hinder our beautifully designed glowing bodies and minds to make a quick buck. Those are the companies that should be put on the “Naughty” list this year, not Liz Lovely! I have indulged in many of the cookies this year and have tried a new gluten free diet as well, and sure enough, Liz Lovely accommodates that diet too! I appreciate all they do for people who are very conscience about what they put in their tummy’s. After all, you are what you eat! Also, if Liz is on your “Nice” list this year, you will get to experience the delicious taste of her cookies after dropping off your, oh, so generous presents to the wonderful people at Liz Lovely cookies!!! Please, Santa, reconsider Liz Lovely! I don’t know what I would do without having the pleasure of enjoying her Cowgirl Cookies!
Merry Christmas!
-Rachel Ford
Dearest Santa,
I think Liz should be on the nice list instead of the naughty list! Ok Santa, here is why I think so: No matter what Liz did to deserve to get on your naughty list…..(& frankly that’s none of my business!) She brings a lot of us presents year round!!! Seriously Santa, all I gotta do for these wonderful, pretty, delicious, mouthwatering presents that she creates with her two own hands…..is drive a half hour to pick them up. She makes each one carefully gluten free. Without her gifts, I would be so sad & miserable. With a crazy schedule & lots of health issues I don’t have time to make or experiment with crazy gluten free cookie recipes! So Liz, despite for her trangression that landed her on the other list….ahem….she brings joy to our tastebuds & to our soul! Please Santa take this into consideration & bump her over to the nice list. Plus I bet she might even leave some out for you to enjoy on Christmas Eve 
With Love,
Jennifer M.
(Who is always on the nice list)
Dear Santa,
Please put Liz Lovely back on your Nice list, it is where they belong! I know this deep down in my soul because:
1. They make ReAlLy delicious cookies
2. The cookies come in all sorts of flavors, which make them good for eating all night long. On Christmas Eve, you’ll never tire of a plate of these babies left by the fireplace!
3. Liz Lovely rewards their fans with sweet deals. (Literally sweet deals, they’re for cookies…Yum!)
4. Liz and Dan of Liz Lovely have green greenery. They bought their Christmas tree from a local tree farm and cut it themselves, which omits three times less greenhouse gases than having a plastic Christmas tree!
If that’s not nice, then I don’t know what is! Happy Holidays!
Becca Flynn
Dear Santa,
Liz Lovely should totally be on the nice list. I reached out to many companies for help in raising $$ for the Anchor House bike ride for runaways. Liz Lovely stepped up within minutes with a donation. These guys don’t even know me, and yet they believed in what I was doing. They already had me with their gluten- free snickerdoodle cookie and now they have me with their hearts! As am independent business owner myself, I have so much respect and admiration for these guys. Salt of the earth. So, get their asses off the naughty list for Christ’s sake!!!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Artur
Dear Santa,
If there’s any chance you, say, are unsure whether Liz Lovely has been a good girl or a bad girl this year, I’m here settle the score. Liz has been nice this year. For example, she is currently bribing strangers via the internets to convince you that she has been nice. She couldn’t get any family or friends to vouch for her; she is SO NICE that they hate her and have all disowned her and unfriended her on Facebook, respectively.
Over the past few years, she brainwashed one of her slaves (probably a child) into a harsh, no-smiling-no-laughing-no-WiFi-your-mama-aint-here-to-hear-you-scream camp, had his personality and iPod erased, and had him break into the North Pole for the sole purpose of stealing your recipes. To put Walmart, the Mom & Pop bakeries, AND you out of the cookie business.
This was all done while running an incredible cookie company. The best part? She tortures over half of America (and two entire states) by not having her ridiculously delicious cookies available at their nearest grocery store. I have to travel 20.4 miles for my Macaroonies Sock-It-To-Me!. That includes a bridge over a river almost two-fifths of a mile long. But as long as there’s the Celiac Idaho Falls folk, who spend over a day trekking barefoot through the Rockies for their German Chocolate Cake, I can’t complain. I’m one of the “Liz Lucky” ones, as they like to put it.
Not convinced Liz belongs on the Nice list? Well, buddy, do the words CHEAP CHINESE LABOR mean anything to you? Just one Tweet and your rep will go from big cheese to big sleaze. Santa Claus to Man of Flaws. St. Nick to St. Ick. How rose-colored are your glasses looking now?
If you don’t put her on the Nice list before Monday afternoon, I will leak photos before you can say “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
Play your cards right, and I just might leave a Snicker Dude with soy milk for you. Because I’m on the Nice list too. Yes, I am.
Until then,
Conie
Dear Santa:
Liz Lovely and her cookie elves have not been naughty…they’ve just been realistic. And that makes Liz Lovely so very nice.
Okay, let’s be honest: no one can infiltrate Santa’s Workshop! If the elves would (or could) have, imagine all of the crushed dreams, the wishes that wouldn’t be made and the mystery unveiled. No, Santa, the rumors are untrue. The elves did not want–nor try–to infiltrate your wonderful shop, your home or your oasis of utopia.
Another rumor debunked: No, the elves and Liz Lovely didn’t want to take over the international Christmas cookie market. There are too many to compete with: Mrs. Fields, those Keebler elves, and Oreos. Not to mention, all of the mom and pops who serve you with homemade cookies each Christmas Eve.
Know that Liz Lovely and her elves are realistic. They only wanted to bring fashion, excitement and humor to the world. And those three things are nothing but NICE!
-Liz Jorgenson
Dear Santa,
I was shocked to hear that you might put Liz Lovely on the naughty list this year. I can personally attest to the soul value of Liz Lovely’s incredible cookies. As a cookie connoisseur yourself, I hope you have tried them on numerous Christmas Eve visits, perhaps in several different households. Not only are they delicious, but they provide a flavor and texture that those of us with special diets and food intolerances crave and, I dare say, need. Can you imagine a holiday without cookies, Santa? Neither can people who are on special diets for any reason. Whether they are choosing vegan cookies to avoid allergens or for personal reasons, people love Liz Lovely’s cookies. They fill the stomach and nourish the soul in a way that not all cookies can claim.
Best of all, Liz Lovely achieves this magic of flavor and texture using all natural ingredients without trans fats. I’m sure you have heard of trans fats, Santa. No doubt your doctor has cautioned you about consuming too many of those processed food cookies that so many people leave next to the fireplace. I myself used to bake vegan cookies using trans fat laden soybean margarine. I didn’t know any better. You didn’t put me on the naughty list when I was baking my cheap, toxic cookies back in college. How could you possibly consider putting Liz Lovely on your naughty list? In fact, Liz should be at the top of your nice list. If you stop there first, you can fill up on nice cookies and perhaps limit your own intake of those naughty trans fats.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Agnew
Dear Santa,
Why Santa! How could you possibly doubt that Liz has been nice this year? In fact, she has been a healer. Just last week, I got knocked down pretty hard by a nasty flu like infection. I was horribly uncomfortable. Without thinking, I took an Advil in the morning on an empty stomach. Within minutes, I got a terrible cramp in my stomach that had me doubled over. I needed to eat something quickly to take the burn away. A Liz Lovely Snickerdude cookie was just what the doctor ordered. It has cinnamon in it which is good for the stomach and has simple organic ingredients that are easy to digest.
Liz saved that day with her cookies and helped to heal my stomach as well as my psyche because they are so yummy.
Please put Liz on the nice this year list and reward her for niceness.
- Renee Feldman
Dear Santa,
Whatever rumors you may have heard regarding Liz Lovely’s naughty/nice status this year, I must weigh in with my honest assessment.
Anything construed as naughty regarding Liz Lovely really just falls in the category of harmless, simple fun.
In addition, Liz Lovely is off the charts when it comes to nice! No one could create such delectable cookies, especially for those persons in the gluten free world, and NOT be in the “nice” category.
Please don’t take Liz Lovely off of your nice list! If you do, you will put many Liz Lovely fans on the “sad” list!
Bev Crookham, a Liz Lovely Fan
Dear Santa,
Happy Holidays! Finally, it’s time for family, fun, and joy to the world. And don’t forget cookies! I’m on the nice list, right? Speaking of nice list… I heard that Liz Lovely is on the naughty list!
This is a disgrace to humankind! What has the world come to, putting people like Liz on the naughty list? I don’t mean to seem agitated, but really, you haven’t thought this through enough. Santa, I beg you to listen to me. She’s awesome. She’s not greedy. She makes the best cookies the world has ever tasted. I’ll stop bothering you if you just put Liz on the nice list!
Think about it. For all these years, Liz has been giving you the BEST cookies you’ve ever tasted on Christmas Eve, like Chocolate Moose Dragons. And Christmas is all about spreading joy and happiness, right? No one has spread as much sugary joy and happiness as Liz. Her cookies give people a vegan, gluten free, and a delicious holiday season. Just look at all the good she’s done, why would you put her on the naughty list to begin with? So please, just do us all one small favor and put Liz Lovely on the nice list.
It’s for the good of the world. Christmas just wouldn’t be the same. I beg you! Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with sugar and icing and lots of cookies on top? Pleeeeeeeeeease! Good. I think your convinced. Happy Holidays!
Sincerely,
Hallie – Chocoholic – age 11
