How I missed this bombshell, I have no idea, but I’m covering it now.
Oreos – which, in the interest of full disclosure, we’ve been boycotting for a couple of years – have apparently been nailed skimping on the stuffing.
Drop your rainbow colored filling say WHUT?! I know, right?
Cracking the cookie caper is on.
…Ransonet, a bottled-water salesman in New Iberia, La., showed his wife, Christine, the offending Oreo. Like others in the box, the twin chocolate wafers were smeared with just a thin coat of creme, far less, he said, than the typical blob he was used to.
The couple thought it was a fluke. This fall, they decided to test Double Stuf Oreos, a variety Shane had never cared for—too much creme. This time, he recognized the cookie immediately.
“Here we go, that’s the regular Oreo,” Ransonet, 47, told his wife.
Ransonet is one of throngs of Oreo fans who have been perturbed in recent years by what some feel could be one of the biggest inflation scandals to hit supermarkets to date: “Double Stuf” Oreos with just a normal amount of creme, and even less in the original-sized versions. Some gripe that the filling no longer reaches the wafers’ edges….
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