Fond reflections on the Oreo
Did you know that Wednesday marked the 100th birthday of the Oreo cookie? I didn’t, until I heard Al Fagerli and Tim Beggs talking about it on WCLO. In honor of the occasion, Nabisco debuted a limited edition Oreo flavor: Birthday Cake Oreos. The cookies look like standard Oreos, except the white frosting has flecks of rainbow sprinkles.
I admit, it’s not just pies (see related blog) I love as dessert. I love cookies, too. Yet it has been many years since I bought Oreos or any other package of cookies from a store (and I do the shopping in our household).
Make my cookies chocolate chip, chewy, any time. Second place, those homemade ones made with peanut butter and/or molasses with the big Hershey Chocolate Kisses. Chewy, of course.
Cheryl and I buy and enjoy Girl Scout cookies (see my blog on that topic, too), but we don’t buy cookies from stores. That doesn’t mean I don’t recall those childhood days of feasting on cookies from groceries. Our next-door neighbors’ mom often had store cookies when my sister and I were over there playing. That mother stocked lots of those wafer cookies in vanilla, pink (strawberry?) and chocolate. She also had Oreos.
Many people favor dunking Oreos in milk. I never did. Instead, I’d pry each one of these “sandwich” cookies open and eat the white frosting before downing the chocolate cookie halves.
Alas, those days are behind me as I consider more carefully the health ramifications of overindulging on cookies and such things as our company’s annual “health risk assessment,” which I underwent Tuesday. Fail to meet certain minimum standards, and I’d pay even MORE toward our health care premiums.
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or gpeck@gazettextra.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook
Mar 10, 2013 at 3:56 p.m.
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Greg, Hydrox "Oreo" cookies predate Nabisco's Oreo cookies by four years.
This lack of knowledge is on par with the claim that Abner Doubleday invented baseball.
Mar 8, 2013 at 5:48 p.m.
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frogger - It sounds like you're the perfect customer for the OreoBot (see 1st comment).
Mar 8, 2013 at 4:51 p.m.
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I like to take apart. Eat the plain side and then eat the other side that has the frosting. No dunking. Don't like floaties in my milk. Goes well with red wine ;)
Mar 7, 2013 at 9:09 p.m.
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Dunk 'em or twist 'em apart . . . something for everyone!
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Moderation is difficult for me, but necessary [Baby Boomer].
Mar 7, 2013 at 8:10 p.m.
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Read this blog - gained two pounds. Thanks!!!
Mar 7, 2013 at 5:17 p.m.
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At about 2:30 today I read your Oreo piece. Went to the kitchen and had a snack because of your mention of cookies. All I can say is thanks Greg for ruining my supper and we were having meatloaf.
I am not hungry, but then I did eat nearly a whole box of Girl Scout cookies.
Mar 7, 2013 at 4:29 p.m.
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Professors at the University of Minnesota have finally perfected the Oreobot, an Oreo separation device for those who find doing it manually cumbersome.
Video!
http://www.twincities.com/ci_22731632/or...
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