Why are Oreos so popular?

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I don't get it.
They are less chocolatey than bourbons.
They are more expensive than bourbons.
Yet they get mushed into ice cream, smashed into slushies, added to sundaes and loads of desserts. But they just aren't that nice are they?
Or are they? What is it about them that makes them so popular?

fizbosshoes I mentioned it upthread about the Gaga ones. In the USA they were actually pink with green cream. We just got pink packaging in the uk.

It always amazes me that with the large variety of 'junk food' America has to offer they can't get biscuits, chocolate and crisps right

I think there's a certain generation missing a summer of their childhood which was lost in a day-glo orange Sunny Delight hyperactive blur.

@Ilovemaisie

It always amazes me that with the large variety of 'junk food' America has to offer they can't get biscuits, chocolate and crisps right

So true

I consider them my teenagers biscuits aimed more at the younger age group who want them as american
Like i used to want a hersheys or twinkies as always read about them in judy blume books

@Ilovemaisie the only junk food America can do well is fries

American hype.
Especially the Oreos and milk combination. Next we will be offering PB and jelly.

I’m guilty of buying Oreos every week myself as my kids like them (with milk!).

I love the golden ones.

Don’t think I’ve tried the chocolate ones.

I was talking to my kids the other day about American cereal and how much more fun unhealthy it is than the ones with have in the U.K.! Our cereal is pretty boring compared 😂 then they done a fruit loops one here that it’s pretty much all brown shades lol whilst the American one is all bright colours , pretty similar to the lady Gaga thing posted, I was looking at them the other day as well trying to wonder what was actually suppose to be different, didn’t realise they were pink in America.

Bourbons are a poor man's biscuit.
I'm not mad on Oreos either, but my kids do like making mug cakes with them (smash them up with milk, and put in micro).

The American Gaga Oreos....

Marketing and the fact people can gobble endless sugar.

To me they taste like sugary grit. I can barely pick up any chocolate taste in an Oreo.

Chocolate custard creams are way better than Oreos or bourbons. My work used to have them in little packets.

They're nothing special on their own but divine with cold milk!

Marketing

I’ve never tried them for the following reasons:

They’re black, which is off putting
The vegan “cream” in the middle just makes me think it’s going to solidified palm oil, which is off putting.
And they are American, I have eaten American chocolate and it tastes nothing like chocolate so I assume they will taste like that.

Of course all my assumptions could be wrong, but I’m in no hurry to find out.

[quote everythingbackbutyou]@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles, one of the first things I did after setting foot on American soil was getting hold of a Hershey bar. It tasted like vomit. So disappointing![/quote]
My sister did the same with jerseys kisses. Absolutely rank!

@BluTangClan

I think there's a certain generation missing a summer of their childhood which was lost in a day-glo orange Sunny Delight hyperactive blur.

God, such specific memories! Such hype around some synthetic orange juice! Happy times

Just come back because I found the video I mentioned upthread. It was in a book recommendation video from minute 12

She was talking about "Salt, Sugar, Fat" and said about the Oreo "It's a feat of engineering... designed to be delicious, but not so delicious that you can ever really satiate your desire for it, but instead provokes you to eat more and more."

They don't have that exact effect on me, but others things do. It's quite thought provoking.

I think there's a certain generation missing a summer of their childhood which was lost in a day-glo orange Sunny Delight hyperactive blur.

I think they must have been competition for a UK drink brand because the bad PR campaign against them was insane. You'd have thought no sugary drinks ever existed before.

They have a nasty gritty texture and very little flavour. I find most American biscuits disappointing.
Hershey's is disgusting - like eating vomit.

Much prefer dark chocolate covered digestives

Not just me, then. I think they taste and feel like galvanised sand. Whoever designed them with psychological games afoot clearly didn't have me in mind, because I'm not wasting calories on something that wasn't worthwhile first time round.

A friend insisted I ate them all wrong and I was meant to have them with milk. I just thought, "Yes, but I could have milk with a nice biscuit."

Never had one, and don't like the name oreo for some reason.

I love Oreos, you can keep bourbons, just awful.

It isn't American hype as I used to live there so I'm immune to it. I barely ate chocolate for 10 years as Hershey's is vile. However Oreos don't hold a candle to chips ahoy, I miss those.