Comments: Why Oreos Taste Worse Today Than You Remember Them Tasting In the Past
I hate Oreos. Always did. Nasty crunchy things.
Posted by pbird at January 12, 2017 1:57 PM
Oreos were perfectly fine until the "We know what good for you better than you do" found their fax machine and made pests of themselves.
Politicians being the fools they are, craved the attention and realized if they did what these turkeys wanted, they got kissed on the cheek and told how swell they are.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at January 12, 2017 3:21 PM
The day Nabisco came out with rainbow colored Oreo cookies was the day I decided that I'd never knowingly eat another Nabisco product. I honestly don't give a rat's petootie what they believe or support, but their decision to politicize a beloved piece of Americana was unforgivable.
Posted by Dave at January 12, 2017 4:33 PM
Tastes like ass.
About 100 years ago I'd stack as many oreos as I could in a tall glass and then fill it up with milk, let it sit for about 5 mins, then attack it with a long handled spoon. whoa
Then I turned into a grown up and didn't touch them for a l-o-n-g time.
This past christmas at my MIL's house she had a big bowl of "Mega Stuff's" sitting there and I thought 'what are these?' and I grabbed one.
Keep in mind I hadn't touched an Oreo in at least 10 years. Maybe 20.
I popped it in and when it was done I asked my wife what I just did, rhetorically.
It was flavorless, and hard as concrete, and threatened to snap a molar. Did I mention that try as I might I couldn't conjure any flavor out of it. And that mega stuff, wtf?
Sad to say I had already purchased a package of standard oreo's for my wife but she didn't know it yet. Just this morning I asked her about them and she said she'd opened them and ate one but didn't care for it, so there they sit in the larder til who knows when.
I also got her a package of pecan sandies, another cookie I haven't eaten in 20+ years - but wore them out in my youth, but I'm no longer optimistic about them.
Is there any reasonably priced decent food left in this country?
Posted by ghostsniper at January 12, 2017 5:34 PM
I believe the current evidence is that sugar is less healthy than lard. All that time and money spent to develop an unhealthy, tasteless, cookie, sad!
Posted by chuck at January 12, 2017 7:16 PM
Amen on the Pecan Sandies. It was a rare treat for Mom to buy a bag. They tasted buttery,sandy,meltingly delicious.With a Barq's Strawberry soda,it was an infrequent indulgence. The reformulation of simple,but politically incorrect ingredients hasn't produced better cookies. We're awash with the results of "Let's make this taste close to what it was,without using what made it taste good."
Posted by Nori at January 12, 2017 7:41 PM
I still kinda like Sandies, with lots of hot coffee.
Posted by pbird at January 13, 2017 9:46 AM
French fries haven't been the same since beef tallow was ousted as the fry oil.
Posted by OldFert at January 13, 2017 12:12 PM
Chuck, please, the "current evidence"? If you are talking like a lefty, you wind up thinking like one.
"Current conclusion" I can live with, but evidence is a fact - it exists or it does not.
There is no evidence that either fat or sugar are dangerous to human beings, unless those human beings are a bad mix of stupid, lazy, immoral and weak. In which case evolution must take its course.
Posted by Fred Z at January 14, 2017 7:07 AM
I always preferred Hydrox, myself.
Posted by leelu at January 14, 2017 7:14 AM