Tuesday March 6, 2012: Shawn Warren, president
of Kraft Foods China, back row right, and children cut the birthday
cake for Oreo cookie's 100th anniversary celebration in Shanghai,
China.
Happy 100th anniversary to the Oreo
cookie!
There’s nothing more delicious, or more
perplexing than an Oreo.
For starters, how in the world are you
supposed to eat the thing? Do you much right into the middle
of the cookie or do you follow the twist, lick and dunk
method?
The Oreo was created 100 years ago at a
Nabisco factory in New York City. And honestly, not all that much
as changed.
The chocolate wafers still feature
twelve flowers surrounding the Nabisco logo. The Oreo is 29 percent
cream, 71 percent cookie.
And more than 345 billion wafers later,
it is still the nation’s favorite cookie.
According to our partners at the Fox
Buiness Network, the Oreo's owner, Kraft Foods, says the cookie
brings in $2 billion a year in sales from around the
world.
Oreos are sold in 100 different
countries and are most popular here in the U.S., followed by China
and Venezuela.
The Oreo name has been shrouded in
mystery – although there is some speculation the cookie derived its
name from the Greek word meaning “pretty darned tasty.”
