Cookie History
The National Biscuit Company's abbreviated and eventually official name.
What is Nabisco?
Nabisco became the corporate name in 1971.
The type of Oreo with extra-crème, whose name may actually be a misnomer.
What are Double-Stuf Oreos?
Fun Fact: There actually isn't technically "double" the amount of crème in a double-stuf Oreo. A high school math class in upstate New York found that there is only 1.86 times more crème in Double-Stuf Oreos.
The cookie with pirate slang in its name.
What is a Chips Ahoy cookie?
The fastest time to eat 14 Oreo cookies.
What is 1 minute 2 seconds?
Travis Mizejewski accomplished this feat in Wisconsin.
The Kool-Aid Man's favorite Oreos.
What are Fruit Punch Oreos?
Sold exclusively at Walmart one summer, these Oreos featured vanilla cookies with fruit punch-flavored creme.
The cookies Ruth Wakefield invented by accident while trying to make chocolate cookies.
What are chocolate chip cookies?
In the 1930s, butter drop cookies were popular. Ruth tried adding chunks of chocolate to the batter one day, thinking the chocolate would melt and make chocolate cookies. To her surprise, the chocolate did not fully melt and chocolate chip cookies were born!
Nabisco partnered with McDonald's in 1997 to create this popular menu item.
What is the McFlurry?
The cookie for peanut butter lovers.
What are Nutter Butters?
The number of Oreos in the world's tallest Oreo cookie tower ever.
What is 48?
Completed live on a radio show, the 49th cookie did not count because the tower collapsed immediately afterward.
A perfect fall-themed Oreo.
What are pumpkin spice Oreos?
On the shelves almost every fall.
The language where the word "koekje" comes from - the word that inspired the English "cookie".
What is Dutch?
Koekje means "small or little cake".
The year Oreos were first sold.
What is 1912?
The cookie made by the elf from the tree (an inverse Oreo - vanilla cookies with a fudge filling).
What are Keebler's E.L. Fudge cookies?
The weight of the largest cookie ever baked in history (in tons).
What is 18 tons?
Baked in 2003 by the Immaculate Baking Company in Flat Rock, North Carolina, this cookie also had a diameter of over 100 feet.
The Oreo that has two different fruit flavors in its creme.
What are Banana Split Oreos?
The creme is half strawberry, half banana - with one chocolate cookie and one vanilla cookie.
The group that had to sell calendars during World War II because of sugar, flour and butter shortages.
Who are the Girl Scouts?
After the war, cookie sales increased, and by 1948, a total of 29 bakers were licensed to bake Girl Scout Cookies.
The city that contains a street called "Oreo Way".
What is New York City?
Oreo got its start at the Nabisco headquarters in New York City. The site of the headquarters is on Oreo Way as a commemoration to the Oreo's impact.
The popular cookie from Pepperidge Farms with a dark chocolate center.
What is a Milano?
The most people dunking cookies in milk at one time.
What is 3,236?
Achieved by the Girl Scout of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana in January of 2018.
Graham cracker Oreos filled with a creme that featured a surprise mystery ingredient.
What are Fruity Crisp Oreos?
These cookies had a creme filled with "Fruity Pebbles"-like specks.
A cookie older than Oreos that feature a unique package.
What are Animal Crackers?
Animal Crackers were released by Nabisco in 1902 - 10 years before Oreos.
The original chocolate sandwich cookie with creme.
What are Hydrox cookies?
Oreos were originally a knockoff! 4 years before the Oreo's debut in 1912, Sunshine Biscuits (creator of Cheez-Its) created Hydrox cookies. The cookies tasted good, but poor marketing and an even poorer name choice (Hydrox sounds like a type of bleach?) led to Oreos becoming far more successful.
The cookie with a synonym for "popular" in its title.
What are Famous Amos cookies?
The doughy company that went to the biggest mall in the world to try and set the record for most cookies iced/frosted in one hour.
What is Pillsbury?
Pillsbury went to the Mall of America in Minnesota (the largest mall in the world), and achieved the record by having 1,169 people frost cookies!
The spicy Oreo that debuted in China.
What are hot chicken wing Oreos?