In the hallowed halls of the robust RtW archives you’ll catch nary a glance at Oreo in our 20+ year history of dishing the deets on random junk food, toys, and misc. pop culture detritus. Chips Ahoy! has fared slightly better. But Oreo has only been featured twice. Both times were somewhat dubious. We did a video review on Candy Cane Oreo Cookies, a video that always stood out to me for being one of our lowest watched, just barely hitting 100 views, and most of those were my mailman and a sweet old lady named Daphne in Des Moines who considers herself an Oreo super fan. Despite that video being published in December to capitalize on the holiday season, it was filmed in July, and the balmy 80-degree weather doesn’t necessarily translate to snowmen and scarves. The other time Oreo appeared on Review the World was a video review on an Oreo Brownie. This video is notable for having the worst audio of any we’ve ever posted in the public sphere. It was wildly windy, and perhaps we stretched 4-5 minutes out of an item that didn’t deserve half that breadth; but do stick around for the second half of that video to see us traversing the grounds of Miami University’s Hamilton campus sipping Soda Shaq.
I’ve stated it before but I’m not a big Oreo cookie, or really a purveyor of cookies or sweets in general. If given my druthers, the Mint Oreo would be my preferred varietal, and I wouldn’t be opposed to some smashed up Oreo cookies mixed into my ice cream. And while I admire the chutzpah to release oddities like Swedish Fish and Peeps Oreo cookies, most of the gimmick flavors don’t entice me beyond mild curiosity, however, 2014’s Root Beer Float Oreo cookies would have been dope I imagine. Just like Snoopy likes sipping a frosty mug of root beer, I partook frequently in my youth, so that’d have been a personal favorite, I’m sure.
This is all a prelude to today’s review of Cookie Dough Oreo cookies. A bit of a cannibalistic amalgamation, no? That’d be like having a hamburger flavored burger. “Hey Sal, gimmie a slice of pepp, and uh, let me get one of those pizza-flavored slices, too!” said nobody ever. Oreo has been producing cookies en masse since 1912, but here they’ve outdone themselves. Now my son Owen, he’s got the sweet tooth in our palatial suite, always digging in the pantry for cookies. And he’s partial to the Golden Oreo cookies. This indecent dish gives us the Golden cookies, sub out the white crème, and replaces it with cookie dough batter crème with no shame. So, what’s the verdict?
I’m on a bit of a diet as of this writing (who in my age group in the blogging and YouTube realm ain’t?) so approached my sole cookie with solemnity. And I don’t know if it’s because I’d barely eaten anything that entire day, but I munched down on that cookie with reckless abandon. And my initial takeaway was that these were deceptively good. I’d already heard high praise from my aforementioned son, and also my girlfriend, but I still had my reservations. The Golden sandwich cookie is ideal, kind of like those McDonald’s character cookies they’d pass out long, long ago, and I found the cookie dough crème was light and inviting, the taste rivaled that of like a quality doughnut filling or something more high-end like that, not the frankly bland sugary blast of a standard Oreo. While Oreo may never be part of my regular snacking rotation, I’ll trip my proverbial barbecue sauce-stained hat like Jim Ross and give them their flowers and kudos for this offering.
Overall Grade: B+
Overall Grade: B+