Today, I sampled a new type
of Oreo cookie—Oreo Thins with lemon flavor cream. The manufacturer Nabisco
describes these new cookies as “thin & crispy sandwich cookies.” The small
print inside the Nutrition Facts box states that four of these new sandwich
cookies contains 150 calories.
It’s funny about food and
calories. Foods with a high-calorie count usually taste better than foods with
a low-calorie count. Milkshakes taste better than a glass of milk. The original
Double Stuf Oreo tastes better than the new Oreo Thins. The original is a
chocolate sandwich cookie consisting of two chocolate wafers with a sweet cream
filling in between. Four of these sandwich cookies contains 280 calories.
When I was a kid, my mother
rewarded my brother and me with a glass of cold milk and Oreo cookies. We ate
them three ways. First, dunk the Oreo cookie in the cold milk and eat. Second,
part the two wafers and eat the cream and then eat the crackers. Third, just
eat cookie-after-cookie. That’s still my favorite way to eat Oreos. I choose
the original Oreo over the new Oreo thins.
Over the last 104 years, kids
and adults enjoyed this classic cookie first manufactured at the Nabisco
factory in New York City. Originally the manufacturer released two flavors, the
original Oreos, and a lemon meringue flavor discontinued in 1920.
The classic cookies are
addictive. Reintroducing the lemon filled cookie, not so classy. My son,
John-Carl introduced his two-year-old daughter to Oreos, the originals. I bet
it’s her favorite cookie now and throughout her life.
Now and then the new beats
the old; this isn’t the case with Oreo’s.
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