Cookie Invasion

Oreo, the sandwich cookie that is a staple of American cupboards, has recently made a bid for country-wide dominance in the United Kingdom. (Peviously, the cookies were available without much fanfare at Sainsbury’s, but are now being pushed more aggressively.) In a tea-and-biscuit culture, not everyone welcomes the American upstart. Stuart Payne, of the biscuit review site Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down, offered this scorching assessment:

The Oreo is basically an imperial juggernaut of a biscuit, whose stable mate brands use nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, fat and sugar to appeal to consumers. If you are looking for that lovingly home baked taste you really have come to the wrong place.

As for dunking the thing in milk—well, that seems to approach something like sacrilege. Not to be deterred, Nabisco has offered up an ad instructing its new consumers how to properly eat an Oreo.

Andrea Thompson
