Oreo Cookies Vanilla > Reviews (13)

Oreo’s are a rare creature, a genuine American cookie that’s made it over to the United Kingdom in original recipe form, launched here in 2008 by Kraft in Sainsbury’s. The Oreo cookie is as American as the Stars and Stripes and the world’s most popular cookie in the last century. Kraft/Nabisco has just completing a mind boggling 491 billion sales world-wide of this little innocuous biscuit. It’s also Chinas most favourite cookie after just 10 years in the People’s Republic. They are seriously popular treats and helped build the huge Nabisco Empire. The Americans enjoy them as a ‘milk dipper’, as wholesome a tradition and appeal as you can get in America, sitting in a clear jar with a cork top next to those American pies on the dinner table.

Anyone who has been to the States and sampled their cakes and confectionary will know just how sweet and salty they are and an acquired pallet, just as our sweets and biscuits are to them. To be honest I struggled with that sweetness and the Alpine sprinkling of salt on top and resorted to mainly surviving on potato chips (as they call crisps there) when snacking. But you do feel obliged to try iconic America snacks that haven’t quite made it over the pond when you are there like Oroes and Hershey Bars and so many a packet stuffed in people’s suitcases and rucksacks on the return.

---The Name---

'Oreo' grammatically comes from the Greek for orally appetizing, stimulating and beautiful, my kind of woman. There are many theories pointing to the origin of the product name 'Oreo', including derivations from the French word 'Or', meaning gold (as early packaging was gold). If you’re not a fan of the bar then you could say it’s ‘Oreo-ble’!

--- How to eat him or her ---

To eat a cookie for the first time you should devour it like your lover. Start by gently un-wrapping the package from the top with gentle hands, and if it puts up resistance then just rip off the top until it concedes to your manly authority. Take hold of the between your fore fingers and thumb and smell its aroma and then slowly move you your lips to it. A gentle flick of the tongue at first should be preceded with a nibble and lick, before you take your first bite, savouring the sensations of the treat to come. If the cookie is firm to the bite then bite harder until it surrenders to your command, still gripping hard the base of your packet. As with beautiful women you need to take control of your consumption as you work your way through the body or it will crumble away in your hands. Never waste what you are devouring. Be greedy and enjoy it all. I’m personally a side nibbler when I get down to business before I get to the cream centre. But if you do go straight for the milky centre of the Oreo then makes sure you swallow it all in one for its sweetly bitter conclusion. Don’t come to quick at it.

---The Taste---

The outer shell is slightly bitter but does have that distinctive American sharpness to their chocolate. Its snaps easily in the mouth for a pleasant early taste although a bit of a crumbler so have a small plate ready.

Because of that they crumble easily in the packet on route to the shop from America so, like your men, girls, best give them a test squeeze before you purchase. The vanilla centre does have enough of a vanilla taste to justify the biscuits claims although it has an after tang you don’t expect. But they are sickly and you won’t be able to eat more than three before they go back in the biscuit tin. You get about 12 in the packet. Most of mine were broken.

---Packet & Price---

We have two box versions and the traditional tube shape available in the U.K. I’m reviewing the tube version. The box version is for the bigger 150 gram deal for £1.61p, those, the Mini Oreo brand, and the boxed 100g regular ones for £1.20, slightly more than the tube 100g version. Both box versions are running a ‘win a holiday in Florida’ competition. Oreos have just released a Bourbon style Oreo with the same chocolate biscuit style as that British classic but with a chocolate filling instead of the vanilla one. Sainsbury’s were the most expensive for the tube I could find at £1.18p whilst Tesco at £1.09. The cheapest was the Coop at 99p.

---Health---

Calories – 160
Calories from Fat – 60
Sugars 14g
Protein 1g
Total Fat – 7g (11 %)
Saturated Fat – 2g (10 %)
Trans Fat 0g – (0 %)
Cholesterol 0mg – (0 %)
Sodium 160mg – (7 %)
Total Carbohydrate 25g – (8 %)
Dietary Fiber –1g (4 %)
Vitamin A (0 %)
Calcium (2 %)
Vitamin C (0 %)
Iron (10 %)

Most of that lot is carbohydrate and so sugar and so pass them round folks! As far as biscuits go the are ok although not in the league of British classics like Custard Creams and Chocolate Digestives, or the all-time great of the mighty Toffee Pops! I can not contemplate why they discontinued those. I suppose you could say the Oreo is a simple cross between the Custard Cream and the Bourbon and that’s it. They certainly taste more Bourbon than Custard Cream and the vanilla filling genuinely that. But, like I said, they are very sickly and so may deter you from another purchase if this is your first time. Burt they certainly do take the biscuit on price.