Posted on 05/18/2008 6:01:21 AM PDT by Daffynition
LONDON -- "It's very dark. It's almost black." May Woodward, an office worker in central London, is holding an Oreo cookie in her hands. It's the first time she has ever seen one "in the flesh as opposed to on an American TV show," and she's not sure she likes what she sees. "It's the color of wet mud!" she complains. "And the bit ... looks like toothpaste rather than cream."
She twists and turns the cookie in her fingers, staring at it from every angle with a screwed-up look on her face that seems to say, "Gross!" not "Mmm, cookie time." You could be forgiven for thinking she's handling some dangerous alien element, Cookie Kryptonite, say, rather than one of the best-known biscuits in the Western hemisphere.
She bites, chews, raises an eyebrow, chews some more.
"OK, I get it," she says, finally. "I can see the attraction. It's very sweet." Suddenly she seems to change her mind. "Actually it's too sweet ... it's becoming mushy," she says, alarmed as tentative chewing becomes frantic munching to wolf the cookie down.
My impromptu taste test in Leicester Square is now attracting the attention of puzzled passersby giving us weird looks.
Ms. Woodward's verdict is that the Oreo is "too ... damp."
I tell her that, according to the ads, it should be "dunked" before eaten.
"In tea?" she asks. (Dipping biscuits we Brits call all cookies "biscuits' in a steaming hot cup of tea is an almost sacred ritual here.)
"No, in milk," I reply.
"Milk?! A biscuit dipped in milk? Who does that?"
"Apparently Americans do," I explain.
"Well, let them," she say dismissively. "I won't be doing it anytime soon." And with that, she disappears into a throng of pedestrians, nonplussed by what has been labeled here as "America's Favorite Cookie."
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The Oreo has landed in Britain. And it is giving rise to a furious Battle of the Biscuits.
The classic sandwich cookie may be as familiar and nostalgia-inducing as, well, Mom's apple pie for Americans, but the majority of us here have never seen or tasted one. Until now.
Now, Kraft, the makers of what some Brits refer to as "the black-and-white biscuit" is launching it across the United Kingdom in an advertising campaign that makes it hard for anyone who lives and breathes to avoid the Oreo message. Big blue-and-white posters on the sides of our iconic red buses implore us to "Twist Lick Dunk." A new TV commercial shows a young boy teaching his scruffy dog how to eat an Oreo: "First you twist it. Then you lick it. Mmm. Then you dunk it," he says, sploshing his Oreo into a glass of milk. This will be the first time that many Brits have seen a biscuit dipped in milk.
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I love the fudge-dipped oreos. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I sympathize. I used to love the taste of Coca-Cola, till some time in the early 1990s I noticed it always tasted like "Santa coke"-the coke cans sold around Christmas time had Santas on them, and the contents were relatively bitter or harsh in flavor. (We hypothesized that that's because they put less sugar in it then so people could mix it with alcohol. )I now realized that's because they had changed from sugar to high fructose corn syrup, but at the time all I knew is coke now "sucked". So I quit drinking it and switched to Sprite, and now I rarely drink sodas at all.
I am still in mourning for Keebler’s (?) Lemon Coolers.(Or was it Lemon Koolers? Either way.)
A sad, sad day. Hydrox tasted better than Oreos.
Apparently, you can get can sugar (instead of HFCS) Coke around Passover, but you have to know where to look. Also, the versions overseas still have real sugar. I like the Jones Cola- only cane sugar!! The flavor difference is huge.
When I did eat Oreos, I didn’t dunk them. I don’t dunk anything. Now that I’m diabetic, when I do choose to have a cookie, it’s sugar-free only.
Years ago, Salerno made an awesome chocolate covered graham cracker. After they went out of production, I tried several others, but they never came close.
wet mud?
What is the color of DRY mud?
Don’t we call that, “dirt”?
Their breakfasts weren't bad, but the rest was pretty bad.
Their Double-Stuff used to be DOUBLE...they’ve cheapened it.
sigh...
I have 12 original kingsize cokes in the bottles......
You should try the new Vanilla Oreo’s™ I like them better
I’d have thought the best of all worlds would have been an American home, European Job, and Japanese wife. Large home, plenty of vacation time and.... I don’t know whats so brilliant about a japanese wife...
I thought I was the only one.
Actually, they would freak this English chick out because the cookie part is even sweeter than Oreos.
They have some good food items. Fish and chips, can't beat that. Great cheeses.
They don't seem to like spicy food, though. I had to ask extra spicy at the Chinese and curry places i went to.
Too bad PB Max was discontinued. Those were great. These would be tough sells:
http://candyaddict.com/blog/top-10-grossest-candies/
“... and I forget the rest of it. “
Yeah right. I’ve got 2 American ex’s to testify to that.
LOL!
They seem pretty hostile to Oreos. Better send this guy too :)
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