# Lorna Doone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 19, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lorna-doone/58618 "2001-03-19T20:07:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoeyBlades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JoeyBlades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyBlades)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lorna-doone/58618/1 "2001-03-19T20:07:55Z")
Cecil, Just wanted to point something out. In your article: “Who or what are Fig Newton cookies named after?” [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980508.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980508.html) You wrote: > [@](#): > > Lorna Doones. “No record exists as to the exact motivation behind the selection of that name, but in those days [the product was introduced in 1912] shortbread biscuits were considered a product of Scottish heritage, and the Lorna Doone character was symbolic of Scotland.” An obvious problem with this theory is that Lorna Doone, the 1869 novel by R.D. Blackmore to which John refers, was set in southwest England, not Scotland. While the story was set in Western England, Lorna Doone is Scottish… Also, just curious. Are you suggesting that shortbread biscuits are NOT a product of Scottish heritage? Maybe someone should clue in the Scots, because they seem to still believe it’s true… ---
**Author:** ![Tatjana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@Tatjana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatjana)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lorna-doone/58618/2 "2001-03-22T02:33:28Z")
Cecil suggests that the name “Oreo” might come from the Greek for mountain. “Mountain” is “oros” in Greek. “Oreo(s)” means beautiful.