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The Snack Report: Oreo Thins

Oreo just keeps on crankin’ out new flavors and varieties. Earlier this year, we took a look at S’Mores Oreos, which were actually pretty awesome. On one hand, it’s getting kind of tiring seeing them shill out inane ideas like red velvet and key lime, but at the same time there is a tiny bit of excitement in seeing what crazy crossover they’ll do next. Their newest addition to the product family is a bit of an enigma, Oreo Thins. They’re essentially your regular old original Oreos, but half the thickness. That’s all there is to them, yet they’ve caused a little bit of a stir on social media and people I know for whatever reason. Apparently people are interested in them.

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*Interest intensifies*

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The Snack Report: S’Mores Oreos

It seems like more and more food companies are joining in on the ‘limited special edition’ bus lately. What once used to be this short exclusive list which included breakfast cereals, ice cream, and a couple restaurant chains, has expanded now to huge proportions. Taco Bell went from a couple recurring menu rotations per year to miraculously managing to pump out limited time menu items on what seems like a bi-monthly basis now, simply by stacking cheese, meat, and tortillas in different orders. Lay’s has been doing the “Do Us A Flavor” with whacky chip varieties every Summer for a few years now. And especially Nabisco, namely with Oreos, has been finding various new ways to inject the longtime standard cookies into your veins under the guise of new ridiculous flavors. We’ve covered quite a few of these on PCFG for better or worse (was red velvet cake really frigging necessary guys?), and lo and behold a new variety has popped up for Summer 2015.

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The Snack Report: Red Velvet Oreos

While it may seem really fancy, red velvet cake is essentially a chocolate cake made red using either natural or artificial red coloring, and has a cream cheese frosting.  Though red velvet cake has been around since the early 20th century, it really seems to have exploded in popularity in the last few years.  Now there’s red velvet everything everywhere.  It seems like everything that can be made red velvet, is.  It’s even spinning off into blue velvet and green velvet cake mixes.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a day of love and things colored red, Oreo decided to jump on the red velvet bandwagon by releasing limited edition Red Velvet Oreos.  They feature a red chocolate cookie with cream cheese flavored crème filling.  So, how did they do?

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The Snack Report: Lance Sprinkled Sugar Sweet Creme Cookie Sandwiches

I saw these cookie sandwiches in the grocery store the other day, and figured since they were seasonal and limited edition they would be a good holiday-time snack report.  While I haven’t reviewed them on the blog, I have eaten Lance sandwich crackers in the past and enjoyed them, so I figured these would be pretty good too.

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Since I feel like Lance might not be a super well-known brand I decided to do some research on them.  The company has actually been around since the early 1900s, though it wasn’t until the 1960s and beyond that they started reaching a wider audience.  They now have a wide range of snacks, but most are based upon the sandwich format.  Some are savory cracker sandwiches and others, like the ones being reviewed today are sweet cookie sandwiches.  So how did these sweet creme cookie sandwiches fare?

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The Snack Report: Pumpkin Spice Oreos

Here we are again, another Oreos review. And yet, despite 4 previous Oreo reviews, I still had to pay for these with my own money.  When are you going to throw us a bone Nabisco (or more specifically, some free cookies)?  But enough of my grumbling.

It’s kind of funny because about a month ago we saw the regular Halloween Oreos that are just the regular flavor but with orange colored cream.  I commented on how it’s lame that for Halloween they just have orange colored cream and not pumpkin flavored cream, and we agreed that would be a tasty idea.  Well, about a week later in a different grocery store I stumbled upon the pumpkin spice Oreos.  I was very excited.  But did they live up to expectations?

Well lookie what I found

Well lookie what I found

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