That’s the way the cookie bounces
Posted: December 30, 2012 Filed under: ball, bounce, cookie, FOOD, THINGS | Tags: ball bounces, blended idioms, Cookie, cookie crumbles, expressions, malaphors, mixed idioms, words 4 Comments
English: A Pepperidge Farm “Nantucket” cookie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is a straightforward malaphor, mixing “that’s the way the cookie crumbles” and “that’s the way the ball bounces”, both meaning you can’t control everything that happens to you. It also could describe the rejects from cookie exchanges this time of year.
Malaphors 
Rubber chickens I heard of. But “rubber Oreos”??? Hmmm
Well, the Blues Brothers did reference rubber biscuit in one of their songs, so that’s close.
How about “Wake up and smell the handwriting on the wall”?
Was that uttered unintentionally or just made up?