So with the Nabisco contract settled, I put Oreos and Chips Ahoy in our grocery order, as a side effect of circulating the strike stuff has been that they're constantly on my mind.
There was a 10x reward points promotion running, which suggests someone was feeling the pinch.
There was a 10x reward points promotion running, which suggests someone was feeling the pinch.
I don't know if that was something that would have come from Nabisco or been encouraged by the distributors or was purely internal to the store. I could see the store wanting to boost sales as I imagine a lot of people didn't shift their cookie buying habits so much as refrained.
Every time I placed an order I did look at sandwich cookies but couldn't find anything that would be similar enough to an Oreo without just making me disappointed it wasn't one. Sometimes I do get nostalgic for the giant things of bad storebrand cookies...
...but that's the kind of thing I'm only feeling when I'm feeling it. We *did* get some store-brand saltines this week, but in a Shipt order, which allows for coordination on substitutions so I could specify not to get Nabisco if the generic wasn't in stock.
One of my favorite of the College Humor CEO sketches is the one where the "CEO of Oreos" begs his R&D staff to quit working and just cash the checks every week, because they already invented the perfect cookie.
(Doubly ironic as Oreo is a knock-off.)
(Doubly ironic as Oreo is a knock-off.)
This isn't a nitpick on the sketch, which is great. I'm sure that Brennan Lee Mulligan was already perfectly aware that Oreo was a copycat of the earlier Hydrox cookie, because that is exactly the sort of pointless trivia that a smug know-it-all would bust out for... never mind.
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