# Oreo cookies - inside out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 7, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317 "2000-01-07T01:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Powers106](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Powers106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers106)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/1 "2000-01-07T01:13:00Z")
Okay, so I’m not exactly an Oreo cookie freak - I mean I like them but I haven’t eaten millions during my lifetime or anything. As you know, there are two cookie wafers and an inside filling of creme. On each cookie wafer, one side is imprinted with designs and the word Oreo (I say this from memory 'cuz I just ate the last one) and the other side is flat - no design. I’d never seen one turned inside out with the imprinted side facing the creme - until lately that is. Once a week I’ll buy a six pack of Oreos from the vending machine and invariably one of the cookies will be “wrong”. Today, two out of six had one of the cookie wafers stuck wrong side facing out. Aren’t there usually controls for this sort of thing when the cookies are prepared? ps. they still taste the same because I eat the creme filling first! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/2 "2000-01-07T13:04:00Z")
It’s very possible that reject Oreos get sold off in the packs for vending machines. Many companies have found creative ways to “reclaim” their rejects and sell them off somehow. * * * I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy - Hawkeye 4077th ---
**Author:** ![SavageNarce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SavageNarce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageNarce)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/3 "2000-01-07T13:58:00Z")
Then again, they could be doing some savvy marketing to you “creme eaters” who always take the cookie apart before eating it. Reversing the “impressed” side to the inside of the sandwich leaves the maker’s logo in the creme filling (albeit reversed) and _catches your attention_. And from the sound of it, their strategy works! * * * Computers in the future may weigh no more than 15 tons. -Popular Mechanics, 1949 ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/4 "2000-01-07T15:28:00Z")
FWIW, I agree with the idea that the ones that done turn out right end up in the vending machines. They also end up at the blood banks in NY. (Same packaging) Zette * * * Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high. Not enough and you’re gonna die… [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html)[Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/5 "2000-01-08T06:18:00Z")
Aren’t misprinted cookies worth a lot to collectors? 🙂 * * * Let the Truth of Love be lighted/ Let the Love of Truth shine clear. Sensibility/ Armed with sense and liberty With the Heart and Mind united in a single/ Perfect/ Sphere. - Rush ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/6 "2000-01-09T01:58:00Z")
Am I the only one who likes the cookies more than the cream? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/7 "2000-01-09T08:26:00Z")
No, Marxx, I would much rather eat the cookie than the greasy filling. Of course, I also prefer my cupcakes without frosting… * * * Born O.K. the first time… If you are born again, do you have two belly-buttons? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/8 "2000-01-09T08:38:00Z")
I totally don’t understand the eat-the-creme-first thing. I like the creme best, so I save it for last… eating it first is like… well it’s like eating your dessert first and then having to go back and eat your spinach. Me, I like to save the best for last. Actually, I usually eat them whole because I’m too lazy. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/9 "2000-01-09T09:32:00Z")
In Japan the cookies are served without the cream filling. The Japanese aren’t into sugar as much as we are. Which is why KFC cole slaw in Japan contains half the sugar that the American version does. ---
**Author:** ![fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/10 "2000-01-16T23:44:00Z")
has everyone gone absolutely bonkers?? the only proper way to eat an Oreo cookie, _regardless_ of how the waffer and icing are placed, or which you eat first, is you dunk it in a glass of milk…have you no sanity, people?? Am I the only one who makes note that you drink milk and you dunk the oreos **in** the milk?? duh. an if i don’t have milk, eating oreos isn’t the best thing in the world anymore. I’d say you get about one inverted cookie per package (from the grocery store, that is, not vending machine). What I want to know is has anyone found an Oreo cookie that has BOTH waffers inverted so that the stamped side touches the icing?? Or is there always only just one side that could possibly touch the icing, if the factory’s machine so permits. * * * I’m not weird, I’m just Gifted…okay, so I’m weird too… ~I’m 15, people, but don’t doubt my intelligence~ \*fLoWeR cHiLd, 2nd generation… “Im not opinionated, Im just always right.” ©Me ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/11 "2000-01-17T04:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > has everyone gone absolutely bonkers?? the only proper way to eat an Oreo cookie, regardless of how the waffer and icing are placed, or which you eat first, is you dunk it in a glass of milk…have you no sanity, people?? Am I the only one who makes note that you drink milk and you dunk the oreos in the milk?? duh. AHHH!!! Why take the extra step? Why not just dunk the Oreo _directly_ in vomit and eat it? * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/12 "2000-01-17T05:58:00Z")
Ewww yuck, Opal! What did we do to deserve that? Are you cause the keyboard pinched your paws again? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/13 "2000-01-18T00:46:00Z")
OpalCat doesn’t like milk. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. “We are here! You are saved!” --R. & F. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/14 "2000-01-18T04:45:00Z")
Oreos turn to sludge to fast if you dunk them. I love oreos in milk. Here in Chgo you can buy Nestle Quick that is Cookies and Cream. ---
**Author:** ![fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/15 "2000-01-18T22:18:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Markxxx: > \*\*Oreos turn to sludge to fast if you dunk them. I love oreos in milk. Here in Chgo you can buy Nestle Quick that is Cookies and Cream. \*\* yeah, I hope ur saying u like the oreos soggy, cuz I kno I do… 🙂 I’m crazy - the sugar gets to me, and I’m 15, so waht can I say?? 😉 damn hormones…heh heh heh * * * I’m not weird, I’m just Gifted…okay, so I’m weird too… ~I’m 15, people, but don’t doubt my intelligence~ \*fLoWeR cHiLd, 2nd generation… “Im not opinionated, Im just always right.” (c)Me ---
**Author:** ![fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oreo-cookies-inside-out/6317/16 "2000-01-18T22:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by OpalCat: > \*\* > AHHH!!! > Why take the extra step? Why not just dunk the Oreo _directly_ in vomit and eat it? > > \*\* Bad visual pix, opal…thanx a lot, I’ll never look at _my_ cat in the same way again. I still say u need to dunk the oreos!! :rolleyes 😃 * * * I’m not weird, I’m just Gifted…okay, so I’m weird too… ~I’m 15, people, but don’t doubt my intelligence~ \*fLoWeR cHiLd, 2nd generation… “Im not opinionated, Im just always right.” (c)Me