# A New and Different Oreo Debate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974 "2007-09-29T21:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Schuyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Schuyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schuyler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/41 "2007-10-05T02:39:56Z")
There are actually two colors of Oreos - some are a blackish brown while others are more of a brownish black. I thought everyone knew this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/42 "2007-10-05T02:49:28Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] I’ve always been fascinated by this. Both of these options to me are gross (although the first is really, really, disgusting and the second - well, I just don’t like sludge in my milk). Does anyone just eat Oreos as they are, washed down with milk? That’s how I dispatch of them. Oh… I’ve seen brown and black Oreos, but more black. [/QUOTE] Does anyone else just hate milk? I was pretty lactose intolerant in the past and now I can’t even look at milk for too long. So putting cookies or brownies or anything in milk ruins it for me. (The cookies. The milk is already inedible sludge.) So yes, I eat my oreos without (usually) separating them, and with no milk. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/43 "2007-10-05T02:55:19Z")
The definitive answer: Look at an OREO CHOCOLATE COOKIE closely. What you see is the true oreo color. Is that black? or is it brown. Only your eyes can tell. All I know, it’s not the same as LICORICE (salty or otherwise). ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/44 "2007-10-05T03:06:45Z")
Anyone remember those whatever they were called…reversed color ones? The ads said they mistakes, I’m sure they weren’t but they were mmmmm mmmmmm good. The outside was a light color, like vanilla and the gooey inside was brown. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/45 "2007-10-05T03:07:57Z")
Dissolve the cookie in a quantity of water. If the cookie is black, the water will be grey. If the cookie is very very dark brown, the water will be brown. The cookie is brown. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/46 "2007-10-05T03:11:14Z")
[Uh-Oh Oreos](http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_indprod?ltrev=2&xlc=1522) The outside of these were also not black. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/47 "2007-10-05T13:28:27Z")
I like my Oreo cookies like I like my men: Black on the outside filled with creamy white gooeyness on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/48 "2007-10-05T15:25:45Z")
They’re dark brown. I have this same conversation about my hair, it’s dark brown, not black. I wouldn’t mind having black hair, but it’s not black. Oreos are not black. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/49 "2007-10-05T15:34:49Z")
[QUOTE=Seven] Twist apart Oreo. Lick off the icing. Stick both **brown** cookies to each nipple. Jump around the room shouting “Kawboogle-fwappa-fwappa”. ???. Profit!! [/QUOTE] you, good sir, owe me a new keyboard the color doesn’t bother me one way or t’other, but I was surprised to discover the cookie part is actually a shortbread variation. I know this because the white-on-white and reverse Oreo cookie parts taste exactly like shortbread cookies as for [QUOTE=Roland Orzabal] Anyone else ever take a bunch of Oreos, twist them all open, scrape off all the cream, roll it into a giant wad, put half the cookie parts on the top of the wad and half on the bottom, and challenge your friends to see who can eat the largest Mega-Oreo? [/QUOTE] never done that, but I have made many a double Double Stuff - even triple Double Stuffs. Try the “mega” trick with mini Oreos, but use just one cookie each side. Talk about a sugar high. :rolleyes: (\<-in a good way) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-different-oreo-debate/420974/50 "2007-10-05T15:34:53Z")
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