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Banana Split Creme Oreos

banana oreoBetween my weakness for novel new cookies and my love for artificial banana flavor, I had no choice but to buy a box of these limited edition Banana Split Creme Oreos when I spied them on a grocery store shelf tonight. Opening the package gave me a heady whiff of faux banana, recalling Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers and Laffy Taffy. There's something so 1980s about artificial banana; it's the sunny, unabashedly fake Valley Girl of the fruit flavoring world, cruising the shopping mall in a yellow spandex tube dress.

The cookies themselves are normal chocolate Oreos, with a canary-yellow banana cream that's softer and slicker than regular Oreo filling. The banana flavor is more subtle than the smell might indicate. I think they'd be pretty good crushed over vanilla ice cream. The Nabisco website says nothing about the Banana Split Creme Oreo, so I have no idea how widely available they are or how long they're here.

Filed Under: Food Oddities, New Products
Tags: banana creme oreo, BananaCremeOreo, cookie, dessert, oddities, oreo

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Eagle

9-12-2008 @6:10PM Eagle said... I've seen them at local Atlanta area Publix supermarkets too (as of a month ago or so), I've managed to resist buying them since then I'd have a whole thing of oreos to do something with. I did try the strawberry milkshake version they had late last year and it was pretty good.
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Lauren

9-13-2008 @1:52AM Lauren said... Oh goodness, they are delicious! I restrained myself from buying more than one box (as I can't be trusted with anything with fake banana flavoring) but now I think I should have bought out their entire stock.
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Kearns

9-12-2008 @8:18PM Kearns said... I got them once, and now my local super market has just stupid Halloween "Orange" Oreos that don't taste like a Banana Split at all. Please make this one permanent, they're the best evah!
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Megan

9-12-2008 @11:16PM Megan said... Those are available here in north east Florida. They're so disgusting : P My family and I thought they had a strong artificial taste instead of a sweet taste. One of us called Oreo and had this conversation:
"We don't care for them."
"What did you not like ?"
"They have a chemical taste to them. It should be sweeter."
"Chemicals ? We don't use chemicals in Oreos."
"No, no, not those kind of chemicals. An artificial taste."
"The taste may have shifted around in the cookie due to movement during shifting."


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Colin

9-15-2008 @8:24AM Colin said... I found them here in the Philadelphia area and thought they were pretty tasty. Artificial banana is crap compared to real banana flavor, but, for artificial, these weren't bad. I like how creamy the filling was rather then stiff and flaky like regular Oreo®.
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cliff

9-17-2008 @10:32PM cliff said... Just finished the damn bag... dear god they are good, they make me whole.
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Christy

9-27-2008 @2:20AM Christy said... Two bags have already been consumed in this house. Not bad for artificial banana!
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Jen

9-29-2008 @4:50PM Jen said... I am in love with banana split oreos!!! Yummmm
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COOKIE PELICAN

10-03-2008 @10:08AM COOKIE PELICAN said... om my god the banana split is the best i have tasted why did the shoprite take them of the shelves i had bought 3 pkgs at the same time they need to put them back...they are they best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cee

10-26-2008 @9:41PM Cee said... I bought one bag of the Banana Split Oreos and my family loved them. I took a few to work and shared them with co workers and it was an immediate hit!
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Cee

10-27-2008 @11:06AM Cee said... Where do I get more??
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