Shundo said this of a cookie that was broken and therefore not suitable to serve for tea. It is another exemplar of a category many small kitchen items fall into: the broken and perfect. It is satisfying to see these items find such swift dispatch.
Eating such a cookie is probably what led Dogen to say “no [creature] ever comes short of its own completeness. Wherever it stands it does not fail to cover the ground.”
With an eye toward taxonomy, I wanted to take a picture of it, one peanut butter cookie, cracked along one of its forkscore lines, in a white bowl at the center of the table. But of course it was gone before I could come back with my camera.