On the other hand, I love Oreos, and if presented with an open package have a hard time stopping myself from eating them. For me, they have exactly the right amount of chocolate flavor: Intense, but not overpowering.
Regular dark chocolate is too bitter for me to have more than a tiny piece.
I enjoy Oreos, but I haven’t had one in as long as I can remember. I don’t think they’re particularly addictive.
My major weakness, however, is the It’s-It: ice cream sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies, covered in chocolate. I think it’s mostly a California thing, though.
Regular Oreos suck.
Double-Stuf Oreos … now that’s the good stuf. 
They aren’t. I hate them.
Neither is pot, but together, they are mighty attractive and may even explain the OP. I vote for less indiscriminate use of the word, addictive, by the way. This is the fight against ignorance, after all.
I could have written this post word for word.
As a fun exercise, try throwing an Oreo into a fire sometime (only with adult supervision!) The things burn like a candle. Empty calories indeed.
So it would be fair to say that when you’re asked “What would you do for a Klondike bar?”, your answer would be “Kill a hooker and shoot a man in the back?”
Oreos are my all-time favorite cookie. It’s not the chocolatey-ness (if you can call it that), it’s not the filling; it’s more than the sum of its parts. It’s the user-friendliness of them, the cookie that offers so many ways to eat it, the combined flavor, the perfection of its proportions, the dunkability, the tastiness right out of the package, the unchanged-ness of the Oreo formula. It’s the perfect Saturday afternoon, walking-by-the-pantry-reach-in-for-a-snack snack.
I can’t eat just one, never could.
Oh oreos…dunk 'em in milk until they’re soggy. They’re HEAVEN. (I don’t eat them all the time, since it gets expensive, but they’re a lovely treat) I’m more likely to eat Cookies ‘n’ Cream ice cream.
You know they make Oreo Cereal now?
We had those when I was a kid - they were known as a Snack-and-a-Half then. They were indeed tasty.
I’m not a huge Oreo fan, either. I’d pretty much always prefer Fudgee-os to Oreos.
Yeah, Oreos aren’t all that. But I used to eat enormous quantities of Pringles. And that white bread where you can compress an entire loaf to the size of a fist. And Pepsi.
My dental problems date to that era.
Oreo schmoreo. Got nuthin’ on Girl Scout Samoas or Fig Newtons. Now those are addicting.
Answer to the OP: Chocolate and sugar.
And until now, I didn’t realize my inability to eat chocolate without getting the shakes would mean I couldn’t have my traditional oreo cake on my birthday. :(:(
Hydrox are the original. Oreos are mere imitators, just like the Big Mac is a faux Big Boy.
You’re not wrong, but you’re also forgetting about things like eating certain hard foods like celery naturally strengthen teeth. Eating foods with fiber is extremely important in Western nations where only around 5% of people consume adequate amounts of fiber.
Yes I realize fiber doesn’t add calories, but if you’re eating foods without it, you won’t be hungry enough to eat the fiber. And I do realize you can take fiber supplements, which, if you don’t get enough fiber, you should be doing.
As I stated, what you said, IS correct, but people don’t analyze what they eat.
Years and years ago, I loved the vanilla oreos with chocolate inside, but now I’m sick of them.
No, sorry. Addictive is exactly the right word.
Grandma does the same thing with her cookies. Its called making what people want, not exploiting.
Pretty much any food that is mostly desiccated(as Oreos and many other snack foods are) will burn quite hot. There is a lot of energy packed away in sugars and fats. Which is what makes it a good food source.
Hey, uh, clem, since yer jes sittin thar, rippin thet bag open, an then sealin it up agin… uh, d’ya think ah could have some uh them oreos?
That implies you have leftovers that need to be stored.
Why do you hate America? 