What is the meaning (if any) of the symbol stamped on Oreo cookies?
Pretty sure I heard something about this on the radio once and it is entirely made up by some guy. A lot of people have theorized about occult and other meanings to the symbols, but they are basically doodles.
It’s not known what direction, if any, Turnier was given when it was time to give the Oreo a facelift. The only thing he kept was the cookie’s name in the center. In place of the wreaths, Turnier positioned an array of four-petal flowers. Surrounding the word “Oreo” was a colophon, or emblem, that was a circle with two crossed lines at the top. It was the same design Nabisco had been using to adorn its company logo.
“That was his idea,” Turnier says. “That design goes back to monks who used it on the bottom of manuscripts they copied in Medieval times. It was a sign of craft—saying they did the best they could. Nabisco really liked that.”
This was discussed in the book Bigger Secrets.
And what was Mr. Poundstone’s take on it?
Just a pretty design.
It’s a scientific fact that an Oreo has never remained uneaten long enough for anyone to notice the symbol.
It’s the Cross of Lorraine, which is either encoding NABISO’s involvement in the underground occult stream of the Sacred Feminine, or Satan. Maybe also alchemical sulphur.. You be the judge.
To be fair, that’s true for almost anything whether the real meaning is known or not. Check out Starbucks, for example.