Oreos

by Kristi Anderson, Posted May 1st 2007 @ 11:52AM

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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8-02-2007 @10:40AM necey said... I have been known to wake up from surgery requesting someone, most often my husband, to go shake down a vending machine for a snack pack of Oreos. I am so saddend that the strawberry- milkshake were for a limited time only : (
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8-05-2007 @1:45PM Marion said... Hmmm......can't type now......my hands are busy twisting a stack of Oreos and I must not break one or I'll have bad luck.
Yummy!
I'm in chocolate Heaven!
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