SPIN OFF THE TOP AND EAT IT, THEN BREAK THE OTHER HALF IN HALF AND MAKE A MINI DOUBLE-STUF: One hundred years ago today, the National Biscuit Company's bakery in the Chelsea section of Manhattan sold its first Oreos, to folks across the river in Hoboken for thirty cents a pound. Further awesomeness was not to come until 1983 when Oreo began supplying its cookies to ice cream manufacturers, though Steve Herrell may have gotten there first.
Your favorite Oreo snacking method?
Joe-Joe's > Oreos. But yes, I'm a dunker with milk.
ReplyDeleteThe top cookie comes off, all the cream gets scrapped off and eaten. And then the cookies are eaten.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I was a sophomore in college when Cookies & Cream burst on the scene. You never saw such craziness in the cafeteria- people fought over places in line to get that stuff. It was insane.
ReplyDeleteI love Oreos but I have never understood why one would want to scrape out the filling separately. I think it's sort of gross, actually. I just eat them whole.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Joe-Joe's are superior to Oreos.
I like the little mini-me sized ones better than the regular sized ones. And I have never, ever liked the Double Stuf ones. Way too much filling.
ReplyDeleteAh, Oreos. The good alternative when you couldn't get Hydrox.
ReplyDeleteSeparate two of them, eat the cokies, make a whole double stuff.
ReplyDeleteI prefer them refrigerated, and then eaten whole. I used to be a scraper, but no more.
ReplyDeletePrefer DoubleStuf. Don't like the new versions out....watering down the brand.
ReplyDeleteNot to gross everybody out, but I used to hold them between my index and middle finger and completely submerge them in milk until they were saturated -- you could tell when they were done by waiting until there were no more bubbles. This got my fingers milky, but on the other hand, when they were good and drowned, the cookie part practically melted in your mouth. This was better with milk that wasn't too cold.
ReplyDeleteThis style of eating also works for Nilla Wafers, though those are superior because you can kind of suck the milk out of them and the cookie just deflates into your mouth.
It's probably been a good 25 years or so since I've done any of this, though.
For the record: Canadian Oreos are so much better.
ReplyDeleteDude, Isaac, we're Oreo eating twins.
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned, like Isaac, I'm a full-submersion dipper. Also, Oreo Cakesters are sort of spectacular. I've only had them once, and I was in Vegas and somewhat under the influence, but man, those Cakesters are something.
ReplyDeleteI'm more extreme - take the double-stufs, twist off the tops and make quadruple-stufs. Yum. Wow, it's been way too long since I've done that. Need to add them to the grocery list immediately.
ReplyDeleteYou're dead right about the Nilla wafers. That's how I eat them with milk. Or if I'm feeling really decadent, with melty vanilla ice cream.
ReplyDeleteDude, Nilla Wafers. Heavenly.
ReplyDeleteYes, this.
ReplyDeleteFor a variety of reasons, Oreos are a big go-to dessert in our house. I tend to stick by the regular and Double Stuf versions when I'm doing the shopping, but every now and then I'll pick up the mint-filling variety, and that is some good good stuff. Or Stuf.
When I was a young boy, I would scrape out the filling by hand from several Oreos, then roll the filling into a large-gumball sized sphere. Eat the cookie halves, then eat the sphere of filling. Yum. Now, I'll usually twist off the top, eat it, and then eat half of the filling via the teeth-scrape method and finally eat the remaining cookie half with the remaining filling.
Who says that Cookies and Cream dates only to 1983? I'm almost certain that I had it as a kid in Houston well before then, manufactured by the local Blue Bell in Brenham, TX.
ReplyDeleteAlso, given the Jewish congregation here, I'm surprised we're not hearing about Hydrox, which were the Kosher Oreos until Oreos stopped using animal fat, and replaced them with trans-fats, which have since been replaced with something else unhealthy. So the brand name "Oreo" is 100 years old today, but the 1912 version of the cookie hasn't been sold in years.
Barry Popik confirms that Blue Bell started Cookies-n-Cream in 1978.
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This is how I like Chips Ahoy! Completely sodden with milk. Delicious.
ReplyDeleteSo Oreos are a hundred years old.
ReplyDeleteThey must be getting awfully stale.
Yeah, that's me too. I especially like to do that with the Golden Double Stuf ones. As much as I am a chocoholic, I really like the golden cookies.
ReplyDeleteI recall one day in law school getting back to my apartment to find the only thing in my cupboard was a box of nutter butters and some Courvoisier. Now that's a cookie worth dunking in a dunk worthy of that cookie.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Nilla waffers but this is exactly how I eat Oreos. MMMMM....
ReplyDeleteI now have a goal for this weekend.
ReplyDeleteProbably important, on the Nilla Wafer theme, to add how good they are when stuck in Banana pudding (and whipped cream) as some sunnier parts of our country do when ending a meal of pit barbecue...
ReplyDeleteOne of my nephews likes to just eat out the middle of the cookies and leave the chocolate part. I convinced him to put his chocolate pieces in a ziploc bag and then we crush them for ice cream or to make a pie crust. Now, it's his crusade- he goes and gets the ziploc bag before he even starts eating the oreos. His brothers don't seem to mind the recycling.
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ReplyDeletei can't be left alone in a house with a bag of Mint Oreos. I bite them apart and let them slowly dissolve in my mouth.
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