When President Barack Obama was first elected as president, one of the first countries he visited as president was Canada. This really excited the Canadians, who didn’t even get a thank you visit after 9/11 from the previous president even though he had done that in many other countries. When he came to Canada’s capital, Ottawa, he went to the Byward Market and bought cookies for his daughter on February 19, 2009.

This moment has become really famous in this area and they renamed the simple cookie– which is shaped like a maple leaf, is red, and says “Canada,” the Obama Cookie. I had the pleasure of purchasing an Obama cookie yesterday from Byward Market.