The Cookie Tracker of a Serious SnacKer

Introduction:
Let me start this by saying, I am not on a mission to try every oreos ever- a standard ive applied after losing the battle of novelty to the Sour Patch Kids Oreos, which were straight up nasty. This lets me leave exotic but sketchy new products on the shelves like the Firecracker Rocket Pop currently available at time of writing.
Nor do I fuck with licensed property oreos that are regular ass oreos with a different colored creme or cookie. You can only dye that shit green so many times, sirs. Funny enough, I dont even like regular oreos that much. Never the less (or is it none the less?) ive said many times that trying out the latest limited edition oreo is one of the few suburban joys I have. Meaning, when stuck in the sludge of postmodernity you might as well enjoy its fruits.

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Top tier, from the holiday cinnamon remix family that comes out around fall each year
One of the few fruity flavors that passes the bar and then surpasses expectations. One of the fewer flavors that have actually been resurrected due to popular demand after EIGHT years of being off the shelves. A long wait but the sensation of realizing 2018 was eight years ago is an instant trauma.
HOLY SHIT these are among the best limited edition flavors oreos has ever put out. If listening to BTS is an equivalent experience to eating their cookies, then I totally get why BTS would be a global sensation
This was a no-brainer for me to pick up, but its basically just cinnamon. Good.
My current fave, because its the pack I currently open. see: https://youtu.be/-XOR3k-wa4k
It's an unfortunate condition that the golden oreo is actually the superior oreo. Birthday cake oreo with the regular black cookie is readily available year round. I think we can call Birthday Cake Golden my first introduction to limited aspect of limited edition, since one day, they were just... gone. This is the second oreo I know of that was resurrected due to popular demand (alongside blueberry pie), but that return did not last. Which is complete bullshit now that I think about it. They have golden cookies and they have birthday filling on deck for the regular birthday oeros. What in the artificial scarcity is going on here?
The more astute of you may be thinking to yourself, "they already have mint oreos, how is mint chip ice cream any different? Its not as if they can do any more since the cream in ice cream is already represented by the cream of the creme™ filling, and the chocolate of the chip is present in the cookie?". To that I would say you think too much. They are tangibly different but slightly so. The cookie itself is thicker, with a fluffier filling with a touch of vanilla to produce the icecream-ness, the mint is toned down and it's embedded with little cookie flakes to conceptually reproduce the mint chip. Is it better? Yes. do both need to exist? no.
Frankly fantastic. Supporting evidence that the music partnerships line gets the most care and attention, producing the best limited edition flavors. The Post Malone Oreos aka the Posties were doing the absolute most, featuring both a brown and golden cookie and a swirl of two flavors (shortbread and salted caramel), which I don't think ive seen done before. Shortbread as a creme flavor instead of a cookie flavor is inspired.
Fall Holiday perfection
(See: r/therewasanattempt/to_say_pumpkin_pie)
Another musician cookie. Not nearly on the level of Posties or BTS's oreos. I will say they have the same production value. Here's what I mean by that. When most junk food lines make new flavors or products they are essentially just remixing what is already on hand. 55 variations of cinnamon cookies point to that. Everything at American McDonalds is either a chicken sandwich or a cheeseburger with more toppings. Taco Bell recombines the same 8 ingredients across 2 textures (crunchy, not-crunchy). But for these musician collabs, Oreos seems to do something new and precise. In Selena's case, who can never stop reminding us that she is in fact Mexican, she went with horchata- but that was just cinnamon again. Though I will say that cinnamon with the chocolate cookie isn't done too often and rather than tasting like horchata it has an effect closer to that of Mexican hot chocolate.
Bangin' like sweethearts after dark in Chicano Park
I remember I liked them but they were entirely forgettable too. Guess what the secret ingredient is. begins with cin- and ends with -innamon
Fucking Nasty. Why did they do this. Why did I do this. As an adult, my taste four sour gummies became more pronounced. and I was thrilled to see something so ridiculous. Surely, they would have made it work before releasing such a thing. Its an abomination and as I mentioned in the intro the cookie that taught me not all limited edition products are worth trying for the sake of it. The first pack of oreos I just had to throw away. Usually even if I wasnt wowed, I'd keep grazing off the pack until they were gone (see: chocolate pretzel), but after the first one I dreaded the next and after the second I had a stomach ache. I repeat. Nasty.

Findings
A few things:
  1. Obviously I have a preference for Golden Cookie limited edition flavors.
  2. When in doubt, make it cinnamon
  3. Collaborations with musical artists tend to produce more interesting cookies (see Selena description for more)
  4. Notice there aren't any movie collaboration cookies on the list. This is because, based on my observations, movie collaborations are almost always going to be a color job and maybe a cookie imprint design. Ghost busters? Green ectoplasm creme. Wicked? Green filling. Star Wars? Red or Blue filling. Like the force? get it??
Coming Soon:
  • Chinese Oreos
  • Limited Edition Oreos I Regret Missing Out On
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