Including the President, all decades beyond their expiration date

Or in this case, code a DNR and move on

Meet the politicians who are older than chocolate chip cookies

Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies? The chocolate chip cookie is such an American classic that it seems like it’s been around forever, but you might be shocked to learn that a few members of Congress have been around even longer.

The chocolate chip cookie has an interesting origin story. Ruth Graves Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass., had heard about some cooks doing experiments with chocolate, which chefs had primarily served melted prior to that time. She and the inn’s chef, Sue Brides, chopped up a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar and put the pieces into a cookie mixture. The rest is culinary history — and now you know where the Nestlé Toll House branding comes from.

The first Toll House cookbook came out in 1936, but the second edition from 1938 is the first appearance of the original chocolate chip cookie recipe (by the way, Wakefield intended the cookies to be crispy), so we’ll use 1938 as our threshold for looking at which federal legislators are older than chocolate chip cookies.

and chocolate chip cookies still have the brains they were born with