Lemon Oreos: Don't Forget Your Dentures, Grandma.

Lemon Oreos.



History: First released in 2012, the Lemon Twist Oreo became a permanent member of the Oreo family in 2013. The Lemon Cookie is a classic variety in the sandwich cookie world. Like Golden, these were a no-brainer. Unlike Golden, they totally rock. 

Cookie: A classic golden cookie. Nothing to write home about.

Creme: The Lemon Creme is both tart and sweet. It's the perfect level of lemon flavoring, without being an odd and overwhelming experience. It goes well with tea, milk, and, well, pretty much anything. It is a relaxing creme. You can eat it forever. It makes you feel classy; it's the kind of cookie a sweet old grandmother might have at her house; not too sweet, not too weird, and not a cookie you appreciate until you're a bit older.

Milk Taste Test: Decent! Not necessary, but decent. 

Gorgability: I brought a ziploc full of these to "Batman v. Superman," and by the end of the movie I had eaten all of them. Then again, I might have been eating away the pain of watching the crap. But the deliciousness of the Lemon Creme Oreo certainly did not deter me.

Summary: 3/5. A high '3.' I would never say the Lemon is a must-buy, or a frequent buy, but it is a decent buy.


Note: My Failure


The "Lemon Twist w/ Chocolate Cookie" Oreo is the only variant I have missed in the past six years. It never came to the Hoosier market. I managed to duplicate the basic concept by buying Frankensteining myself one using Lemon Twist and Chocolate Creme Oreos, but I doubt it was the same. Someday I will try these. Someday.

Fruit Punch Oreo: You'll Never Be a Kid Again.

Fruit Punch Oreo


















History: The Fruit Punch Oreo tasted like summers that will never come again. Friends and places you cannot return to. Childhood dreams, remembered in one blast of red-gold sugary goodness. It was a unique kind of cookie. It first appeared in 2014. I brought it to Half-Price Books for my coworkers to try; it wasn't a popular one. Oh Well.

Cookie: Classic Golden Oreo. As always, bland and relatively flavorless. Especially against the overwhelming force of Fruit Punch.

Creme: Visually, the Fruit Punch Oreo was the prettiest Oreo. Ever. The odd pink color of the creme was both pleasing to the eye, and precisely how it tasted.  It tasted pink, punchy; like a pixie stick. It has the same level of sugary sweetness as a pixie stick, of course, which means it was a one-and-done kinda Oreo cookie. Unlike other flavors, however, the taste is strong enough to make that one cookie meaningful and memorable.

Milk Taste Test: I never actually dipped these in milk.

Gorgability: I ate very few.

Summary: 3/5 stars. A classic novelty flavor, one I avidly hope makes a reappearance some summer down the line.

Chocolate Creme Oreos: Fine.

History: I cannot find a direct history of the "Chocolate Creme" Oreo, but I never noticed or tried them before 2010. I'm sure they've existed in other forms over the years. 

Cookie: Classic chocolate cookie.

Creme: Packaged chocolate creme cookies rarely sit well with me - there's often something off about the chocolate. EL Fudge cookies, for example, have a very dry chocolate filling. It doesn't sit well on the tongue. Mixed with the very, very 'fake' chocolate flavor....

Not a great mix.

When I first tried Chocolate Creme Oreos in 2010, I found the chocolate filling to be comparable. When I bought a pack this year I was pleasantly surprised to find the creme much improved. It's not great on its own, so forget licking the cookies, but as part of the mixture it makes for a pleasant enough cookie. The chocolate flavor is minimal, but at the least the creme has the same smooth 'feeling' as the traditional Oreo creme. 

Milk Taste Test: Decent, but not a notable improvement over eating them dry.

Gorgabiliy: I didn't tend to find myself tempted to eat more than a serving (2 cookies) at any given time.

Rating: 3/5. The Chocolate Creme Cookie suffers from being a decent but unremarkable member of the Oreo family. Good for something different, but not a must-buy.

Mega Stuf Oreo: What the Stuf?

Mega Stuf Oreo


History: The Mega Stuf Oreo was introduced in 2013. It is available in both chocolate and Golden varieties. The Mega Stuf features roughly 2.5x stuf. It's not a significantly larger cookie, but it does have a significantly different taste. Basically, too much too much too much Stuf. I might as well have bought a tube of Stuf and eaten it plain. Which I would do in a heartbeat.

Cookie: Both chocolate and Golden are available, and taste about standard.

Creme: Both varieties of Mega Oreos are vanilla creme only. The amount of creme is overwhelmingly sweet, to the point of rendering the full cookie nearly tasteless.

Milk Taste Test: Delicious, but not significantly different than regular Double Stuf Oreos.

Gorgabiliy: Not a pleasant eating experience. A single serving (2 cookies) feels like a gorge as it is.

Rating: 2/5. Something all Oreo fans had wanted to see just to see it, but definitely proof that something enough stuf is enough stuf.

Filled Cupcake Oreo: A Little Creme Filling Goes a Long Way

Filled Cupcake Oreo



History: Look at my beautiful fingers in that picture. Clearly, I put a lot of time into it. Anyway. The "Filled Cupcake Oreo" was introduced in early 2016, and marks another 'first' for the Oreo brand: two-textured creme filling. Holey moley, Nabisco, slow down. You're starting to scare me.

Cookie: A traditional chocolate cookie.

Creme: Filled Cupcake Oreos feature a cupcake chocolate outer ring, with a middle dollop of smooth vanilla creme in the center. I don't really like Oreo chocolate filling; it is either too dry or too rich, or both. Neither of which are preferred qualities when it comes to snack cookies. The texture of the outer ring is traditional Oreo creme; the middle is a bit softer, not far from the filling in this variant's namesake. Feeling the softer creme hit your tongue is, I admit, a very pleasing experience. But flavor-wise, the Filled Cupcake Oreo doesn't have much on traditional chocolate Oreos.

Milk Taste Test: Not necessary, but about as effective as milk is on making basic chocolate Oreos better, which is to say, minimally.

Gorgability: Too rich to really gorge. I ended up trashing my package a few cookies in.

Rating: 2/5.  Worth trying, but nothing worth buying a second time.

Cinnamon Bun Oreo: A Delicious Bun-dle of Fun New Oreo Flavors!

Cinnamon Bun Oreo



History: The Cinnamon Bun Oreo was introduced in January, 2016.

Cookie: The Cinnamon Bun Oreo was the first to introduce a cinnamon cookie. The cinnamon cookie is lightly cinnamon, nowhere near the more powerful snack-pack flavor of, say, cinnamon teddy grahams. A friend of mine who dislikes cinnamon tried one of these cookies and said they weren't too strong, so I feel comfortable saying this: everybody loves them. Except my sister, who didn't.

Creme: The Cinnamon Bun Oreo has a slightly different creme, made to taste like vanilla icing. It's a much more potent 'vanilla icing' flavor than the traditional vanilla creme in regular oreos. It is delicious. The closest I can come to describing this creme is that the Cinnamon Bun Oreo as a whole tastes like the old snack product "Dunkaroos." If you are unfamiliar, you should make an effort to hunt them down.

Milk Taste Test: Decent in milk! But not a necessity. The cinnamon cookie does not interact with milk in a substantial way, unlike chocolate.

Gorgability: I found the Cinnamon Bun Oreo to be a fun flavor, but not one I needed to eat an entire pack of to truly appreciate. However, my sister's boyfriend did. Your mileage may vary.

Rating: 3 / 5: An adequate and delicious speciality flavor. Definitely on the higher end of Dessert-Varieties. Unique.

Heads or Tails Oreos are Pure Garbage

Heads or Tails Oreo



History: Heads or Tails Oreos are, like Golden, an 'Oreo Take' on a classic sandwich cookie. Vanilla cookie, vanilla creme, chocolate cookie. It's an obvious variant that is, obviously, awful. Heads or Tails came about in 2009 or 2010, when I was in college. I immediately tried some, and was put off by the way the combined chocolate and vanilla flavors produce an odd, overly-sweet, glue-like flavor. Gross. I bought another package a week ago. Maybe my memories weren't being fair. But my memory for Oreos is spotless. Heads or Tails Oreos totally blow.

Cookie: The chocolate cookie has an oddly muted flavor, even when separated from the cookie. The Golden, as always, is weird and bland and not particularly good. Somehow its blandness seeps into the chocolate cookie. What a waste.

Creme: Vanilla creme, double-stuf. I already have strong feelings regarding double-stuf (Chocolate are mediocre, Golden are great), and this definitely belongs in the 'mediocre' category. The lousy cookies don't interact well with the creme.

Milk Taste Test: I'm lactose intolerant, so really, any milk taste test for me is defined by the simple question: "Is this cookie worth massive dietary pain just to dip it in milk?" The answer for Heads or Tails is no. The expanded answer is that these cookies give me dietary pain just looking at them.

Gorgability: I threw away the package soon after opening it, because eating them wasn't a pleasurable experience.

In Summary: a solid 1/5, would never buy again.

I Just Ate an Entire Packages of Mint Oreos and You Should Too.

Mint Oreo

History: Mint Oreos were originally introduced as 'double delight mint & creme' Oreos, which featured half Mint, half regular creme. A few years ago they dispensed with that nonsense and repackaged them as Mint Creme Oreos. The flavor is the same, but now the creme is green, rather than half green and half white. Oh well. Mint are a permanent flavor, and can be found anywhere. They taste like multi-textured Thin Mints. They are perfect.

Cookie: A chocolate cookie. 

Creme: The Mint creme Oreo is a lightly minty flavor, equitable to a weaker-mint Thin Mint. Each Mint Oreo has roughly 1.5x-2x creme. They're not precisely Double-Stuf but close enough. The creme flavor mixes astonishingly well with the cookie. It doesn't overwhelm, like many other creme flavors. 

Milk Taste Test: The green food coloring in the creme makes your milk turn a very pleasant greenish tint. Who doesn't enjoy drinking green milk?

Gorgability: It is very difficult to stop eating Mint Oreos. Sometimes I simply don't.

Conclusion: A 5 out of 5 Oreo. Easily the best standard variant flavor. Pure, delightful pleasure.