# Oreo Cookie symbol question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 3, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419 "2022-03-03T18:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/1 "2022-03-03T18:13:42Z")
What is the meaning (if any) of the symbol stamped on Oreo cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/2 "2022-03-03T18:29:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/3 "2022-03-03T18:38:13Z")
> **[The Enduring Mystery of the Oreo Cookie Design](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87385/enduring-mystery-oreo-cookie-design)** > > Have we been eating a delicious subliminal message all along? > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/4 "2022-03-04T13:38:20Z")
This was discussed in the book Bigger Secrets. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/5 "2022-03-04T15:52:14Z")
And what was Mr. Poundstone’s take on it? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/6 "2022-03-04T18:55:25Z")
Just a pretty design.🍪 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/7 "2022-03-04T20:07:30Z")
It’s a scientific fact that an Oreo has never remained uneaten long enough for anyone to notice the symbol. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/8 "2022-03-04T20:41:20Z")
[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.](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/tracing-the-origins-of-the-oreo-cookie-conspiracy). You be the judge. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookie-symbol-question/960419/9 "2022-03-04T21:58:39Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > A lot of people have theorized about occult To be fair, that’s true for almost anything whether the real meaning is known or not. Check out Starbucks, for example.