Posted on 01/20/2008 9:12:55 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Robert Fliegel was craving a Hydrox. The 52-year-old computer consultant says he always liked the way the chocolate sandwich cookie, which he found crisper than Oreos, "stood up to the milk" when dunked.
But Mr. Fliegel, who used to be able to devour an entire package of the crème-filled biscuits in a sitting, couldn't find them in any stores near his East Stroudsburg, Pa., home.
Only when he went online a few months ago to try to order some did he learn the truth: Hydrox is dead.
In 2003, without warning or announcement, Kellogg Co. killed off the cookie -- by then rechristened Droxies -- after failing to gain ground against the dominant Oreo, one of the country's best-selling snack foods.
While aware that Hydrox cookies were becoming harder to find, many of their fans are learning only now they are gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Did you two know this???
I just have a hunch it is because of the soon coming war against trans fats. That deliscious “creme” filling in those types of cookies (including Oreos and my favorite “Nutter Butters”) are nothing but trans fats. I bet Kelloggs was just making a pre-emptive move in killing of Hydrox. Sad.
That is sad. I used to love Hydrox. I ate them all the time before I got too fat and stopped eating cookies.
Much better than Oreos. They did not get bendable soggy a day after opening the package.
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I’m still PO’ed that my favorite peppermint patty disappeared. “Schraft” I think. Been gone at least twenty years.
Further down the article is states that they are produced only as filler for Cookies and Cream Ice Cream.....but doesnt say what brand.
I wasn’t a big fan of Hydrox as a kid, but I liked the name (am I the only one who thought the name sounded like rocket fuel?). I loved Maurice Lenell cookies and I try to pick some up anytime I travel near Chicago.
Ugh. Was this on an episode of Big Medicine?
I know how you feel, I am hacked at Brachs. A few years ago they stopped making most of their boxed chocolates, and thus left from my Christmas traditions their mixed chocolate assortments, and most painful, their chocolate covered cherries. No one makes chocolate covered cherries like Brachs did, at least no one I’ve found yet.
Hydrox sounds like a kitchen cleaning solution.
(They tasted like inferior to Oreos)
D*mn. Hydrox cookies contained no animal products (not even whey), and were thus always a favorite desert of American Orthodox Christians during fasts.
Oreos have whey in them (as immortalized in the exchange between a bishop of the Russian Synod and one of his monks—feeling faint during some long Lenten Service, probably Great Compline, or the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, the bishop asked the monk to bring him a cookie. The monk fetched an Oreo, evoking the response, “That’s an Oreo. It’s got whey in it. I asked for a cookie not a glass of milk.”).
Hydroxs were my favorite too,I tell my children how much better they were than Oreos.There was a plant in Pittsburgh that made them,but it is long closed down.
I'm an OREO loyalist.
If Kraft discontinued Oreo's, the news would be world wide in days, announced or not.
I'm not knocking the cookie. More is always better, but come on.
PA probably closed it down under their nanny state laws.
I was an Oreo fan, but having Hydrox die off is like Coke losing Pepsi or McDonalds losing Burger King. Just a shame for the whole market.
My Mom bought me a tin of holiday cookies made in China.
They tasted sooooo awful I was tempted to get a chemical analysis performed on them. Trying to avoid all Chinese produced foods (except tea) if possible. Also as a kid in the 60’s Mom would buy Hydrox cookies not Oreos.
Another item that has disappeared from the grocery stores, Post Toasties. I can’t find them anywhere.
Well, ain’t that a kick in the head? I was thinking about looking for some Hydrox the other day, although I seldom buy or eat store cookies.
I think it was some subliminal thing related to those TV commercials for “Hydroxycut,” whatever that is - and what a strange name, too boot. (I think it “cuts” weight, as in, might be a weight-loss product, but not sure.)
Anyway, Hydrox really were much better than Oreos - much, much better.
In grade school, we called this kid HYDROX because that is what his parents bought for some after school outing. I guess the connotation was that they were poor or something. Funny how you are brand conscience even in grade school. I kind of feel bad about it now.
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