What a very charming, very low-stakes wager from Cory Booker! This thing is a win-win for the junior Senator from New Jersey: if Booker decides to run in 2016 (he won’t) and this Twitter exchange resurfaces in the press, his campaign could respond by orchestrating a cute photo-op wherein the candidate ponies up the dough to the constituent. Coverage of the event would highlight Booker’s charisma and affability—qualities that would be the focal point of any 2016 campaign, as opposed to, say, legislative accomplishments.

But oh, how easy would it be for a candidate of lesser appeal and negligible humanity to get such a stunt so very wrong. Remember when Mitt Romney accused a swing-state voter who offered him cookies of purchasing the snack “from the local 7-Eleven bakery or whatever”? Why didn’t the voter bake the cookies? No time? What, busy at the manufacturing job she lost 15 years ago? Ha ha, it’s like, Romney didn’t think so.

And finally, challenge of our own to fellow bloggers: you try writing an entire blog post about Cory Booker, cookie dough, New Jersey, and 2016 without a single joke at Chris Christie’s expense. Winner receives . . . celery sticks and fat-free Ranch dressing.