Randomness

Today while browsing through yahoo news I came across some VERY IMPORTANT news... 2 days ago (March 6, 2012) was Oreo's 100th birthday. Yes! You read that right... oreo (the cookie).

Why am I posting this??? Oreo's are DA BOMB!!! Not only are they my MOST FAVORITE cookie but also the kiddo's as well! Actually if given the choice Princess Peanut will hands down choose an Oreo over ANYTHING! And Mr. T might think about it.

To me there is comfort in getting a nice cold glass of milk and a couple of these amazing cookies, taking that first bite and then a sip of milk and letting the milk soak the cookie (no dunking here!)

So in my randomness and celebrating in 100 wonderful years of this amazing cookie here are some of the fun facts about the best cookie EVER:

• According to Kraft Foods, 84 percent of men and 59 percent of women eat the cookie without twisting it open first.
• No one knows who came up with Oreos, or where the name really came from. Kraft Foods' corporate archivist Becky Tousey says that she thinks the name came from combining the "re" in creme and the two "o's" in chocolate. Others theorize that the name comes from the ancient greek word for mountain ("oros") since the cookies were once domed, or the French word for gold ("or") because the cookies once came in golden packaging.
• Oreos are available in different flavors outside of the U.S.. In China you can find them in Green Tea, orange/mango, and raspberry/blueberry "Double Fruit" flavors. In Argentina, there's the Oreo Alfajor, with a half-banana, half-dulce de leche flavored filling. In Mexico, people enjoy "Trio Chocolate," with three different types of chocolate in each cookie, and Oreos with a cookies-and-creme filling (that's right -- Oreo cookies with Oreo-cookie filling, so to speak.)
• Classic Oreos are 71 percent chocolate wafer and 29 percent creme. After decades of this standard, the company released the Double Stuff in 1975.
• There's at least one street named after the cookie: Oreo Way, in New York City.
• It takes 59 minutes for a bakery to make an Oreo.
• The tiny pattern pressed into the wafer is a combination of 12 flowers (each made of 4 triangles), 37 dots, and 12 dashes. Each cookie also has 90 ridges running along its edges.