Emotional Foodie- Reprise

A tiny glimpse into my warped world of comfort foods… You know those days when you suddenly feel like it’s Oreo Day? You’ve just gotta get your hands on one of those black round biscuits? You don’t? Ah well, you don’t belong to my league then. Hahaha… I love my biscuits & cookies like all girls do, but my top 2 favies? It’s gotta be Mint Brussels from Pepperidge Farm and Oreos from Nabisco. Ooo…

It’s Oreo Day today. Saaaaaaaalute!!! And as I’m relishing my favorite cookie dunked in milk, let me give you some awesome nuggets of information that I found out… (Yes, I was actually crazy enough to go do research on Oreo, hahaha..)

Oreo’s History…
Did you know that the Oreo was first targeted at the people who drank tea in England? The creators had decided that England's biscuit was quite boring to dip in their tea and that they should create a new "Different" biscuit that would be fun and interesting. The cookie made better progress than what was expected but made greater progress in America later on, which surprised its creators greatly.
And from the start, Oreos were produced in two flavors of cream, vanilla and lemon meringue. This later changed, eliminating lemon meringue and to make way for the many other flavors. Like what we have now- double cream, chocolate cream, peanut butter cream, ice-cream, ec-cetera, ec-cetera, ec-cetera… hahaha

Oreo’s Look…
Did you ever observe the black round biscuit as you devour it? Each side actually shows twelve flowers around the Oreo design! Pretty!!

MY OREO
I never knew I loved Oreo that much. It was one of those cookies that are always in abundance and readily available, I took it for granted and chomped on them happily without giving much thought to how important it was to me... Until my first Oreo day… I had a sudden craving for it, and I just had to have it… It was then, I realized I had fallen in love with my Ordinary Oreo…

How I ate my Oreos evolved over the years. It started with simply sinking my teeth into the cookie, halving it, then halve it some more, and finally pop the last quarter into my mouth. Yummy!

And then their brilliant advertisements came out…“Some people twist apart the wafers and eat the filling first; others eat the cookie without taking it apart.” Since I was doing the latter already, I decided to try the first. Thence started the phase of “eating the filling perfectly”. I’d try licking it with my tongue, rolling it with my tongue, twirling it with my fingers & putting the tiny cream roll into my mouth. It was fun, but too much engineering effort for my taste buds that sometimes demand hastened gratification.. so that phase lasted only for a while.

And when I fell in love with the Parent’s Trap (must have watched it like 10 times over the years, starring Lindsay Lohan when she was still a sweet innocent young girl), I fell in love with the quirky habits the girls had. They ate Oreo with peanut butter. Eeeks!! You might think. But I tried it and man, it’s heavenly...
My Sec 4 days saw me emptying my house of all the Oreos & crunchy Peanut-butter. I’d sink the cookie into the bottle of peanut butter, scoop a large chunk of the spread with the cookie and into my mouth they go. The smooth vanilla cream, crunchy peanut butter, and the rich-tasting biscuit becoming one large swirl… You’ve gotta try it… And this goes way before the the peanut butter cream Oreo was created, and in my opinion, beats it hands down.

My favorite way of eating my Oreo now? “Dunking it in milk like a basketball player!” Obviously inspired by the heart-warming father-and-son addy but it took a long long while before this lactose-intolerant girl got down to trying it. And when I finally did… it became THE way…
You can soften the cookie to a various degrees- gently dip it to get it slightly wet so you get the crunch with a bit of moisture; hold it in there slightly longer to get a soft exterior with a bit of crunch; or just throw the whole cookie into the milk and eat it with a spoon.. Ooo… The milk richens the taste of the cookie and together with the vanilla cream, it’s like… what angels eat on a bad day… I lurve lurve it… Another would-like-to-have in heaven, can I Daddy? Ppplease?

Yeah I know I sound crazy, but my am I delighted to when I went to the Oreo website that I haven’t missed much. Other than deep-fried Oreo cookies, which are batter-dipped Oreos fried like funnel cakes, I’ve tried almost every recommended way to take the biscuit!! Wo hoo!!

Heh.. Oreo fanatic, maybe, don care :p