I can surely tell that you don't like them much. Hey, Oreos are not, I repeat are not, meant to be a warm, soft cookie. They are hard cookies to take on a picnic, use in recipes, and dunk in milk. For the warm, soft kind try chocolate chip just out of the oven.

The only way to eat Oreos is with Vegemite.

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The only way to eat Oreos is with Vegemite.

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Blech!! Thanks for that lovely image,BaronBatty!

Lol, Ren. I was wondering who would be the first to complain.

BaronBatty after I picked myself up off the floor having laughed until I fell off my chair I then clicked on your profile thinking that to have made such a post as your first forum post you surely must be a current Aussie member faking an ID to wind us up! Then I checked you out and since you have seventeen badges (I am impressed) on the main site then that would be a heck of a commitment to winding up people.

Welcome to the forums and do check out the old Vegemite/Marmite thread!

Not at all keen on them either - but not a great sweet biscuit eater anyway. Prefer a nice McVities digestive to dunk in my tea.

See that you can now get Tim Tams in our supermarkets - very similar to Penguins I think and an Australia favourite.

Oreos just look so synthetic - anyone tried Duchy Original bikkies - to die for - especially the shortbread ones.

Baron Batty,
I give you........... the Marmite/vegemite thread

Oreos are not trying to taste like chocolate cookies, they have a flavor all their own, but better than "Hydrox" cookies which are "wanne-be" Oreos. Someone up there suggested that perhaps the taste for Oreos is rooted in childhood, which I tend to agree with. As adults our tastebuds evolve and become more refined, but eating Oreos might just be a comfort food for adults; I can see why they might not appeal to adults who've never had them as children. After reading this thread over the last few days I have to admit I bought some yesterday while food shopping! Now I have Chocolate cream-filled Double-Stuft Oreos on the pantry shelf taunting me, good-bye diet!

Ditto, BurgGurl!

Agony, I do agree that homemade is best. I have fond memories of my grandmother's sugar cookies, and I would choose them, right out of the oven, over an Oreo any day. In this thread, however, we are considering mere, commercially-made biscuits/cookies and U.S. vs. U.K. tastes in same.

Here's an interesting piece, titled "The Forbidden Oreo" and published in the New York Times 10 years ago. It indicates that the filling recipe DID change, in order to allow observant Jews, long Oreo-deprived, to eat them:

http://www.tbe.org/site/library/forbidden_oreo.htm

Anyone remember the Oreo jingle?

Oh, a kid'll eat the middle
of an Oreo first,
and the chocolate cookie outside
for last!

I think I'll pass on Oreos with Vegemite. The mind boggles.

Oreos are the only biscuits my kids have ever turned up their noses at - they clog the hoover too......

Funny article, lanfranco, but I wonder if the switch from animal fats to vegetables fats changed the taste any.

Yes, I understand that we're not comparing homemade with commercial cookies. Still, you can imagine something like a Chips Ahoy (a chocolate chip cookie, from the same company, I think) being at some point in its journey fresh, and warm. An Oreo has more of the texture of something that was stamped out from paste, and then dried.

Chips Ahoy are, indeed, made by Nabisco, agony, but I have never liked them. If I'm going to eat a commercially-made chocolate chip cookie, it's either going to be made by Pepperidge Farm, or it's going to be one of those cookies produced by the Keebler elves in a hollow tree.

But before anyone points this out, I'll hasten to add that Toll House chocolate chip cookies made at home are VASTLY superior to both.

This just in: a truck carrying 20,000 lbs. of Oreos overturned on an interstate in Illinois last night, strewing cookies everywhere!

Now, I know that many Americans must be sighing and saying, "What a waste."


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-oreos-crash-web-may20,0,49762.story?track=rss

Yes, Lanfranco- I heard about the 'doublestuff freeway disaster' and couldn't help thinking about this thread...I knew somebody wouldn't be able to resist reporting the awful news.

To add: Oreos were always a boredom food for me, I guess. When faced with a choice of fresh chocolate chip cookies or oreos - the latter gets left in the dust every time.

I tried to access that site and it says it's no longer there. For goodness sake, let's not discuss beer lest there be a brewery spill somewhere! Now, THAT would be a waste.

Hmm, ClaraSue, I think the problem is with the URL, which did not completely highlight for some reason.

Let's try another site:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8O_jZAENh6dpfyrJwR-eqFeI6AAD90ONLG81

All this talk about Oreos, Chocolate chips, homemade sugar cookies, Chips Ahoy, and many others makes me hungry. Pass the milk please!

This also brought to mind a cute saying from my late father when we were kids:
To bed to bed said Sleepyhead
No wait a minute said Slow
Put on the pot said Greedy Gut
Let's eat before we go!

Do any of you drink milk with cookies before going to bed?

I did until I was about 12 but had an apple rather than anything else. I can't remember when I stopped but was till about then.

I came across an unopened package of Mint Oreos in my pantry tonight while getting stuff out to make dinner. I know they are a holdover from the ex-husband's shopping, not mine! Just out of curiosity and in the interest of research for this thread, I opened them and ate one with my after dinner coffee. All I will say is this: if you do NOT see me somewhere on this site tomorrow, you will know to inform the coroner and my sons that my C.O.D. was most likely said Oreo.....yuck!

Don't know how long your husband has been an 'ex' jordandog, but did you happen to look at the date on the package? Any cookie that's old will not taste good I fear.

Jordandog, the very concept of a "Mint Oreo" frightens me.

I am a traditionalist, and also certified in CPR and defibrillator use.

So, I must insist: if you're going to eat these "postmodern" Oreos, then please: make sure that someone is available to save your life!

Even I, a fan of the Oreo, can't bring myself to eat a mint Oreo. I don't even like Thin Mints! Mint chocolate chip ice cream, now that's another thing...