Oreo Cookies

What is the name of the original company who patented and sold the Oreo cookie?

• The National Biscuit Company (NaBisCo)

• Pillsbury

• Sunshine Biscuits

• Uneeda Biscuit

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Which is the two flavors of Oreo originally offered?

• Strawberry, raspberry

• Lemon meringue, vanilla cream

• Almond, mint

• Vanilla and chocolate

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What are the usual design hallmarks of an Oreo cookie?

• Round, chocolate

• Nabisco symbol in center

• Patterned/embossed outer disk/wafers, cream filled

• Four leafed clover in center

Until 1997 Oreos contained:

• Pork fat/lard

• Eggs

• Gluten

• Trans fats

What questionable ingredient was used temporarily to replace the pork fat/lard?

• Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil/trans fat

• hydrogenated vegetable oil

• Butter

• Peanut oil

What is the all important Oreo cream filling to cookie ratio?

• 10% - 90%

• 19% - 81%

• 15% - 85%

• 29% - 71%

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How many countries around the world sell Oreos?

• Less than 10

• Over 100

• Nearly 50

• All of them!

Where did the name "Oreo" come from?

• We don't actually know.

• It comes from the Greek word for 'mound' or 'mountain'; "oros"

• It comes from the French word for gold; "or"

• Two biscuits surrounding cream = "OreO"

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How many times could you circle the earth with all the Oreos ever manufactured?

• 381 times around the equator

• barely once!

• 422 times if pole to pole

• What a terrible waste of cookies - eat them instead!

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Which is not an actual Oreo flavor?

• NASCAR Daytona

• Chocolate orange

• Blueberry ice cream

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