PrintMoo, Brittania: Oreos Make Splash in England
With all the cultural exports the U.S. floods the world with, it's hard to imagine the iconic Oreo is only now making a splash in England. But, sources tell me, drinking a glass of milk, let alone dunking cookies in it, is an alien concept in Europe. I love the subhead on the Christian Science Monitor story on the phenomenon: "What fresh vulgarity have the Yanks brought now? Milk dunking!"
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4 Comments:
Isn't there room in Britain for one measly cookie? I'll admit I like their chocolate bars better. (Yummmm, cadbury with crispies.) They should give our Oreos a chance!
Confabulation at 8:09PM on 05/13/08
I don't know. I've enjoyed dunking Oreos in milk, but they don't hold up as a cookie on their own. The chocolate cookie part doesn't taste like chocolate (or, really, anything). The cream stuff doesn't taste like vanilla (or, really, anything). They're only good when soaked with milk, right on the edge of falling apart from the moisture.
Adam Kuban at 12:47AM on 05/14/08
Good cookies are hard to find in the UK. Store shelves are lined with "digestive wafers", i.e., hard brown graham flour wafers. Too each their own.
Adam is right, though. Oreo's stopped tasting like chocolate a long time ago and the filling tastes like plain confectioners sugar.
billg at 10:20AM on 05/14/08
What!!! This has to be a cultural thing. Oreos to me taste like cardboard with margerine in the middle. Send me back home for a chocolate covered digestive, or a nice hob-nob any day, I strongly disagree that you cant get a good cookie in britain! The only thing that is a bit disappointing is a rich tea biscuit that seriously is just made of cardboard!
jennywenny at 6:22PM on 05/14/08