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Oreos

What's with Oreos? I bought Double Stuff Oreos for the first time in a long time.

What was the criticism of the old packaging? In the new configuration, there is no paper end to open; and the cookies are in a plastic tray instead of in brown paper-like dividers. Why change?

It is well-nigh impossible to open the heavy, dense, secret polymer package without something sharp to cut or stab at it. Try to open the new package by hand, and if you are successful, the cookies are all over the floor, hard plastic container holding the cookies or not.

And if you are tempted to pull the hard plastic shell holding the new incarnation of Oreos, without "trans-fat," whatever that is, and another step removed from one of the original Oreo filling ingredients, lard, out of the heavy, dense, secret polymer package, you will never be able to put the container back into the package and will obligate you then to eat all of them at one sitting or let them go stale.

The package can frighten a person of normal sensibilities. Sharp instruments can slip any time they slice open a shiny, slick, polymer package, and severe lacerations are normally the result.

I'm sure that the new package costs Nabisco more than the old one. Or is that the answer? Were the Oreos made at a new plant? Outsourced to a country with cheaper labor?

Posted by Bill at July 22, 2007 09:22 PM