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Swaziland & Oreos to the MotherLand

SLSmith — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:09:42 -0500

Caroline

Ciao - Swaziland is beautiful. I wonder how the Kingdom is faring in the last decade & now with the violence against foreigners - if it has been impacted/touched @ all.

Nightline did a clip on the invasion of Oreo over to UK. Here is a search link that ges you to the video clip on ABC's video player to view.

http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=oreo&type=

best, Sharona

My mother is always complaining things are too sweet

Elana Centor — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:57:54 -0500

At 82 my mom has lived in the US for 60 years but her palate has never adjusted to American sweets -- while my dad and I love us a hershey's bar, she finds it very unpleasant. Same with oreos --but she will eat a chocolate chip cookie and will not pass up a biscotti.

As to the sweet content -- it would probably be good for all of us if our cookies had less sugar!

elana
Blogher Contributing Editor,Business&CareersFunnyBusiness

Welcome to Blogher - SLSMITH!

Elana Centor — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:54:31 -0500

I love your Oreo love affair across continents! I think its great that Oreos seem to be an American specific acquired taste---

Hope you will visit BlogHer Often

lEana
Blogher Contributing Editor,Business&CareersFunnyBusiness

Too sweet

snigdhasen — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:56:12 -0500

Very interesting!

I had precisely the same problem when I came to this country (still have it). I never had a sweet tooth to begin with, but did have a love for chocolates and "cream biscuits" (as we called them back home, and, Orea will fall into that category).

But I find everything here just toooooo sweet :( I love dunking, but no Oreos for me. No Hershey's either.

For my sweet fix, I have to go hunting for European brands like Cadbury's. I find them less sweet (not sure if that's psychological).

If Oreo's comes out with a less sweet version and I like it, I'm dunking it in my home-made chai tea for sure :)

SLSmith - I was your neighbor then!

TCMom — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:42:17 -0500

How funny! I lived in Sawziland for 5 years and have been to game farms in Sabie also! Alas, I did not bring my oreos. When I got them, I ate them immediately. You are clearly a more generous person than I!! :)

Caroline

http://morningsidemom.wordpress.com/

Even today - Oreos are my drug of choice.

SLSmith — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:32:06 -0500

Thanks for posting the great picture of your bambino enjoying their first oreo.

I lived overseas for 15 years & the first thing I craved was Oreo. When I lived in RSA and a posse came to visit me with 6 pounds of Oreos. When I went through the offices - all the local native South Africans did not like the Oreo cookie - chocolate taste such as this was not in their palette. I used to frequent a private family game farm up @ Sabie and when members of the Shangaan tribe sampled the Oreos - they were not impressed.

I lived in Wien for 3.5 years and @ that time in the UN commisary (the great bastion last resort of all things American) did NOT have Oreos. I did business in the Soviet / Eastern Europe regions and when I would bring Oreos - the local taste bud usually did not like Oreos.

And when I lived in Italia, forget it the Italians - they wanted to drunk Oreos in tomatoe sauce.

Thanks again for this posting. I got here for the Obama interview and it was this blog that caused me to create an account :) Oreos over politics any day.

I start my days with Prozac & end them with Oreos...

Praise be the Oreo!

TCMom — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:25:32 -0500

I spent half of my childhood years in Africa. And there was not an oreo to be found (back then - maybe its changed since). Still, being an american, I had the genetic make-up for oreo worship. Relatives would ship oreos out to us for holidays and birthdays. No matter how bashed up and powedered they were from the long journey, I practically cried when I ate them, I was just that grateful. And I certainly, happily, dunked them into my powdered milk. It may be something we yanks are biologically predispositioned for. But I think it has more to do with that sweet picture of the little one posted with his first oreo cookie. They were my first cookie and that kind of wiring seems impossible to change. So I'll take my oreos in any form: dunked, crummie, in ice cream, stale, chocolate covered (a gift from God I tell you), whatever. Praise be the Oreo. The american sweet tooth lives on!

p.s. Brits dunk EVERYTHING in their tea, HOW can they be grossed out by our milk/oreo combo? C'mon now... :)

Caroline

http://morningsidemom.wordpress.com/

Green Tea Oreos!

JenInShanghai — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:15:17 -0500

Hi Elana!We do have the typical round Oreo's here in China. They are less sweet and they come with a variety of different fillings, so far I have seen the typical white filling, chcolate, peanut butter, half white half chocolate and half peanut butter half chocolate. But there is no doubt in my mind that they have or will make Green tea filled Oreos soon. Cold Stone and Hagen Daz both sell green tea ice cream (yes it is really very green and I have learned to ask for a taste if I am looking for Mint ice cream). Starbucks has a grean tea frappacino (very green too). And once I bought what I thought were the Chinese version of Andes Mints only to be sucked in again gagging on green tea filled chocolates. I will let you know when those green tea Oreos hit the shelves. Thanks for the entertaining post. I am now craving an Oreo......

Funny!

Kalyn Denny — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:55:49 -0500

I heard a very British-sounding guy on NPR talking about dunking Oreos in his tea. I had to laugh because I never really liked them.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen