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I enjoy a good food ritual. The more work I have to do in order to eat, the more I enjoy the food. It's the biggest reason why, despite the fact that I'm not much of a sweets person, Oreos have managed to remain something I crave. And I'm not alone – According to ACNeilsen, Oreos were the best-selling cookies on the market in 2006.
You can't just grab an Oreo and go, well, I can't anyway. I have to sit down with a glass of milk and make a project out of it. First, I twist the top off. And you really do have to twist – if you just pull it, you end up with the cream filling on both sides, and nobody wants that. Next, I see which side most of the cream ended up on, and scrape the cream off the other side with my teeth. Then, I dip the clean side into a glass of milk until it's moist, but not soggy. Finding the proper amount of dipping time isn't rocket science, either – the cookie is just sturdy enough to stand up to the milk but yielding enough not to fight the melting effects of it. If dipped for the proper amount of time, it will have the perfect velvety taste, melting on your tongue with a little bit of crunch left in the middle.
Now, I know people that dip the cream side into the milk as well. I'm not one of them – I think you end up with dairy-flavor overload and it overpowers the chocolate. So I scrape the cream off before I repeat the dipping process.
I've never tried Keebler's Droxies or any of the Oreo competition out there, but a colleague snubs the Newman-O as "too grown-up for its own good -- it lacks the playful qualities of the original." She dismisses the organic sandwich cookie from Paul's edible good will empire as "a rigid, burnt flavored chocolate cookie resistant to the milk's penetrating effects."
For me, the best part about all the work that goes into eating an Oreo is that it burns so many calories that it's like you never even ate them. So you can eat as many as you want! Okay, that's completely untrue, but it helps ease the guilt when you've come dangerously close to eating an entire pack. Trust me.
Did you know?
According to Nabisco, If every OREO cookie ever made were stacked on top of each other, the pile would reach to the moon and back more than six times.
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2-12-2008 @6:14PM adrienne harrison said... my family LOVES double stuf oreos, all kinds...although, it appears that the amount of stuff has decreased a tiny bit over the years. my family and extended family have all noticed it. we are oreo-aholics. lol
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5-14-2007 @11:50AM Kat K. said... Danny Meyer's Eleven Madison Park makes the most INSANE "homemade" Oreos, and they almost always have 'em during Restaurant Week. Seriously - when I have them, I can't stop thinking about them until the next Restaurant Week.
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5-21-2007 @10:45AM halvasnack said... What is it with Oreos that make them a classic? Is it the countless spin-offs that are created from the delicatable chocolate cookie or that silky sugary cream inside?
The one thing you need is milk to truly enjoy an Oreo. But the question then is a whole cookie dip or do you split the cookie in two, lick out the cream and then dunk the cookie? Personally I'm a whole cookie dunker. I love how the milk engorges the crunchy cookie and turns it into a silky choco mush that fills the mouth with a comforting flavor. But the perils of dunking can be where you leave the cookie too long in the milk and it disinigrates before you can get into your mouth.
I'm partial to the original cookie, I think Double Stuff are too much filling, fudge covered takes away the point of dunking, the different flavors are a bastardization of what works and the first is always the best. Any one care to disagree?
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5-22-2007 @5:57PM Rick said... I prefer to take 6 or 8 Oreos, stack them in a tall glass and pour milk over them and eat them with a spoon....WOW... what a sugar rush, but oh so good. I keep both the chocolate and "golden" Oreos on hand all the time. I've been know to get up at 3:00am, finding no Oreos, dress and go to the store to get them.....I'm addicted....and love it.
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5-22-2007 @6:03PM Rick said... I like the originals. I will switch to the double stuff and the chocolate cream filled, but always go back to the original. "Nothing Beats an Oreo, or two, or three. I cannot eat just one or two, have to have a hand full
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7-04-2007 @2:26PM Nickie Hanby said... My dad was a Nabisco salesman for 42 yrs. and our cupboard was always filled with Oreos. To this day when I need a pick-me-up I reach for an Oreo and I am instantly reminded of my happy childhood. Nabisco cookies are an example of quality products rarely seen today. I have such fond memories of sitting down and enjoying milk and cookies as a kid.
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7-07-2007 @6:33AM doc said... I also like the reduced fat Oreos (a medical neccessity). I have dunked mine in coffee for decades and enjoy them tremendously.
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7-07-2007 @7:04AM Sheila said... I've loved Oreos all my life and i swear i could eat a whole package with milk in one sitting.....well, maybe half a package....then i'll have the other half for tomorrow night!!!! Seriously, at the age i am now, out of necessity i have also started enjoying the reduced fat Oreos and i think they are just as good as the originals!!! In fact, I was forced to buy a pkg. of the originals not long ago when they were out of the low fat, and i found myself missing the low fat. It's just like when you wean yourself off whole milk to skim milk. You never want to go back, because the whole milk tastes like cream to you now. Trust me baby boomers...YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
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7-07-2007 @4:36PM gloria said... has anyone tried the new flavored oreo? it is strawberry milk shake flavor & soo delicious.i can only find them at 1 store in my city but make a trip every other day for them. they are totally addictive
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7-07-2007 @7:27AM gloria said... has anyone tried the new strawberry milk shake flavored oreo??
omg they are soo addictive.
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7-07-2007 @7:39AM Karen said... Oreos are the best! Whether you dunk or not they still taste great. Me? Personally I am not a dunker. I love the center and double stuff was invented, I think, for people just like me who used to twist them apart two at a time then place the two with filling together and eat the two 'plain' sides before eating the 'double filled' one. Do I still twist the doubles? You bet! I don't put the two double stuff filled sides together though. =)
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7-07-2007 @7:55AM DONNA said... OREOS R GOOD AND VERY ADDICTIVE BUT ALSO A WHOLE LOT OF CALORIES. VERY FATING.
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7-07-2007 @8:11AM Barbie said... I love the original Oreos and I dunk them intact (without unscrewing them) into ice cold milk. My husband opts for the double stuffs. If they are not available, then he unscrews two of the regular ones and puts the two with the cream together and creates his own double stuffs. No dunking for him though (I just don't believe that is normal).
Fudge covered oreos are great for a holiday treat but they are not very dunkable. And what good is an oreo that you can't dunk? Am I right?
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7-07-2007 @8:18AM marian said... Oreo's? No never a favorite of mine. Of course Im wierd. Still I don't believe oreos stand up, next to a old fashioned home made chocolate chip. Really if we are going to eat cookies let us eat well.
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7-07-2007 @9:03AM Gail said... Personally, I haven't bitten into an Oreo in 25 years. If I'm going to have a cookie, it will be an oatmeal with raisins and nuts in it. At least then I can convince myself that it has healthy qualities and isn't some mass of manufactured sugar, laden with empty calories.
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7-07-2007 @9:03AM Joe L said... Oreo's are OK, but Hydrox cookies (if you can still find them) are so much better. I have done hundreds of blindfold tests in my high school classes (all in the name of science, naturally) on whether oreos or hydrox were the better tasting cookie. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of Hydrox which totally amazed my oreo brain-washed students.
Give me a Hydrox any day.
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7-07-2007 @9:19AM Nancy Smith said... While pregnant, I couldn't get enough Oreos. Now you can get them fried, awesome.
But did you know Oreo's shows you can be better then the original.
I had always heard that, and the following statment from another site .Mother always reminded that Hydrox was first when I complained that she didn't buy Oreo's, (which were much more expensive.)
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Oreos are very similar to the Hydrox cookie manufactured by Sunshine, which was introduced in 1908, leading to speculation that Oreo obtained the idea from Sunshine. Having lost market share to Oreo for years, Hydrox cookies were withdrawn in 1996[4] (and subsequently reintroduced under the Droxie
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7-07-2007 @9:22AM jamie said... Oreos are the best! This is what i do ( and i dont even know im doing it)I get a glass of milk and about 6 oreos, i think thats a good amount and just eat them and then after that something weird happens...i stand in the corner of my kitchen with the package of oreos and just start shoving them in my mouth! as quickly as i can my son walked in and said mom can i have some oreos? and i looked at the package and then at my son with a blank stare and said honey, im sorry but theyre gone. and thats my story and thats why i trynot to buy them alot!
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7-07-2007 @11:17AM lily said... C is for cookie and cookie is for me!.............Especially Oreos
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7-07-2007 @9:41AM FPM said... Oreo's are one of the great childhood memories that continues to live on and not disappoint. It is a dessert mainstay. My biggest disappointment has been the once popular cupcake with the white curly swirl. They no longer taste "chocolately" to me; more like plastic with a chocolate smell. And the creme filling smells sugary and is grainy. I now call it a Barbie dessert; kinda like those fake chickens that rock back and forth in the floor sample fridge's at Sears.
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