Have you ever had an Oreo? They are little cookies with chocolate wafers on the outside and sweet vanilla cream on the inside.
The Oreo brand has been owned by Mondelez International since 2012. Nabisco initially owned Oreos when it introduced them in 1912. Later in 2000, Nabisco was acquired by Kraft Foods, but the brand remained under their ownership until 2012 when they spun off their snack food business, Mondelez International. Today, Mondelez remains the proud owner of this globally adored cookie.
According to Mondelez, it takes two hours to make and bake one Oreo cookie. There are over eighty-five different flavors of Oreos. Some of their most famous flavors are Original, Golden, Birthday Cake, and Space Dunk. The company operates factories in eighteen countries around the world that produce forty-billion cookies per year. If stacked together, these cookies would circle the earth five times!
The origin of the name “Oreo” is unknown to most people. There are many hypotheses, including derivations from the French word “or”, meaning “gold” (the original tin was colored golden), the Greek word “opos” (oros), meaning “mountain” (the cookie was originally conceived to be dome- shaped), or the Greek word “wpaio” (oreo) meaning “nice/beautiful”. The real truth is that Oreo got its name from its creator, Sam Porcello.
Some other items that Mondelez International makes are Chips Ahoy, Ritz, Cadbury, Milka, Tang, and nine other food products. Chips Ahoys are cookies, Ritz are crackers, Cadbury and Milka are types of chocolate, and Tang is drink mix/powder (for turning water into juice). Mondelez International only produces food and drinks.
There are so many different ways to eat an Oreo. You can dip it in milk, rip it in half, put it all in your mouth at once, take small bites, put it in the middle of a Dorito (called Oretos or Doreos, but not very famous), or smash it and slowly drop small crumbs onto your tongue.
Just like “Milk’s Favorite Cookie”, we good and we out.