Tuesday, March 6, 2012, marks a momentous occasion in history — Oreo cookie's birthday. And it's not just any birthday; Oreo is turning the big 100. That's right, Oreo fans around the globe have been twisting, licking, and dunking America's favorite cookie for an entire century.
 
According to The New York Times, it all started on March 6, 1912, when The National Biscuit Company sold its first Oreo sandwich cookies to S.C. Thuesen, a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey — and the rest was history.

 
The New York Post reports that the Oreo cookie was born at what is now a New York tourist hotspot and home to Food Network Studios, Chelsea Market. Chelsea Market was once the headquarters for the National Biscuit Company, which would later go by Nabisco. While the headquarters, the owning company, and the cookie itself have undergone many changes throughout the years, the world's love for Oreos has continued to grow. The design on the outside of the classic cookie alone has changed three times, from a simple wreath around the Oreo name to today's complicated design complete with a serrated edge.
 
While it was always a sandwich cookie, the Oreo started out as the "Oreo Biscuit" sold alongside two other cookies: The Mother Goose and the Veronese. By 1921, the Oreo had surpassed its cookie counterparts and was sold on its own as the "Oreo Sandwich," and later as the "Oreo Crème Sandwich." The cookie the world knows and loves today is dubbed the "Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie," although it comes in many forms. Oreo Cookie variations have included a lemon-cream flavor, Double and Triple Stuf Oreos, and even an "inside-out" version that featured vanilla cookies with chocolate filling.
 
Over the years, various countries have released their own special Oreo flavor profiles. For example, the best selling Oreo in Argentina is the "Duo," a package that includes some cookies with banana filling and others with dulce de leche filling. In China, consumers can purchase green tea ice cream-flavored Oreos and a variety called "Double Fruit" that has different fruit-flavored fillings.
 
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Since they were first baked in 1912, more than 362 billion Oreos have been consumed worldwide. Now, 100 years later, Kraft Foods is planning a centennial birthday bash for all the Oreo lovers out there. While the celebration is mostly made up of a new marketing campaign featuring the slogan, "Celebrate the kid inside," there is also an edible way to participate in the Oreo celebration. Kraft Foods created a limited-edition cookie called the Birthday Cake Oreo. From the outside these special cookies look like the classic Oreo, but when consumers twists open the cookie, they will find frosting speckled with colored sprinkles.
 
What's your favorite kind of Oreo Cookie? Will you buy the limited edition Birthday Cake Oreos?
 
If you're feeling a little nostalgic for your old friend the Oreo, you can try whipping up one of these recipes that are made a little sweeter by the addition of, you guessed it, Oreo cookies
 

Oreos don't have balls...

tina said the same thing about you! grrrrrr 

im sorry BK i will have to make it up to you 

well i owe him more than one cuz i keep signing up to work when he wants to go up north. lol

and remember..??   he has a short rod, too...
 
 But have had a deep fried oreo on a stick... pretty yucky..      happy birthday anyways oreo

They do have a pill for that.   right Glenn..  or was it ULT??   

Are you sure it wasn't chris???

Wow all this just because Oreo had a birthday.

i was told it brings people to the cite. thats the only reason anyone of us get off topic. hehehe  

SHEEEEEEEEEZZZZ! i leave for one day and the whole site goes to the gutter!!!

WHAT PILLS?????????????????????

Hey Chris, you are way to young to need to worry about that pill....Some seem to think that old guys need it.

that's cuz women use a regular tape measure.. guys use metric.. 

Glenn.... my point exactly... and women know how to read one...
 

whoever thought all the things you could do with them buggers.. dunking them in milk, making pies, mixing them in chocolate pudding.. mmmmm  They sure have come a long way...