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There are some facts about Oreo cookies which I bet you are not aware of your twistable, lickable, dunkable, dreamable, delicious cookie!
- Oreo celebrates its first birthday on 6th March 1912! Oh yeah, it’s not something new! They were manufactured at Nabisco factory in New York City, where were are only 2 original flavors- chocolate and lemon meringue. They were later discontinued after 1920.
- It has double stuffing cream- it’s wrong! If you see the original double stuffed cookie, it is 1.86 times bigger than what we are eating today! The actual Oreo was supposed to have 3 times the filling of what it has today!
- More than 123000 tons of crème is made each year to fill in between the cookies. Each Oreo cookie has 29% of crème and about 71% of cookie.
Further Oreo facts
- It takes around 59 minutes to make a single Oreo biscuit! It is baked for exactly 290/6 seconds at the temperature of 400 F from the top and 300 F from below.
- 500 billion Oreo’s cookies have been sold all over the world, out of which the United States leads the number to date!
- Not many people are aware but Oreo is very addictive. It’s okay if you compare it to cocaine! But the addictiveness for this biscuit is too damn high!
- There are enough Oreos to wrap around the earth 381 times! If you place it in a heap, you can cover the earth very easily!
- I am not sure if anyone has carefully looked at an Oreo cookie, but every Oreo cookie has 90 ridges, 12 flowers, 12 dashes, and 12 dots!
- No one knows why it is named Oreo! I still remain a mystery!
- To all the Oreo lovers out there! 6th march is declared as National Oreo Day to honour the birthday of the best cookie!
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