Random Thoughts & Ramblings: The Oreo!

An ode post to my favourite store bought cookie... the Oreo!

A poem:

Oreo Cookies
By James K. McAlister

Black and creamy cookies
Really drive me wild!
They charge me up like batteries
The way to be a child!

I love to eat by dozens
The cookies that everyone likes
Made by Mr. Christie
For adults to teens to tykes.

They come in a nice, small package,
Those sweet and crunchy snacks
The cookies are better than average
To eat when you relax!

Chocolate top and bottom,
Between, white filling glued.
I eat them by the handful
Cuz’ they're my favourite food!

When my tummy rumbles,
Things aren’t as bad as they seem.
Cookies in the cupboard
Will fulfill my dreams!

http://www.durham.net/~neilmac/cookies.htm

Information from Wiki:

"Oreo is a trademark for a popular sandwich cookie manufactured by the Nabisco Corporation (National Biscuit Company). The current design consists of a sweet, white filling commonly referred to as 'cream' or 'creme', sandwiched between two circular chocolate cookies.

Over 490 billion Oreo cookies have been sold since they were first introduced, making them the best selling cookie of the 20th century.[1] Its most recent packaging slogan is "Milk's Favorite Cookie", which is a slight change from "America's Favorite Cookie."

History:

Oreos were introduced by Nabisco Corporation, an American company, in February 1912 mainly to target the British market, whose biscuits were seen by Nabisco to be too 'ordinary'. [2] Originally, Oreos were mound-shaped and available in two flavors; lemon meringue and cream. In America, they were sold for 30 cents a pound in novel tin cans with glass tops, which allowed customers to see the cookies.

A newer design for the cookie was introduced in 1916, and as the cream filling was by far the more popular of the two available flavors, Nabisco discontinued production of the lemon meringue filling during the 1920s. The modern-day Oreo was developed in 1952 by William A Turnier, [3] to include the Nabisco logo.

There are many theories pointing to the origin of the name 'Oreo', including derivations from the French word 'Or', meaning gold (as early packaging was gold), or the Greek word 'Oros', meaning mountain or hill (as the original Oreo was mound shaped) or even the Greek word 'Oreos', meaning beautiful. Other theories are that the 're' from cream was 'sandwiched' between the two Os from chocolate, or the word 'just seemed like a nice, melodic combination of sounds'.

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 Droxies name three years later)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo

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