Oreo

Oreo

Oreo is a type of cookie manufactured by Nabisco Corporation. It was introduced in 1912. It consists of a sugary white filling sandwiched between two circular chocolate wafers. There are two schools of Oreo eaters; there is some contention between the schools. In no particular order, one school holds that the correct way to eat an Oreo cookie is to twist apart the wafers so that the filling sticks to one of them, and eat the filling first. The other eats the cookie without taking it apart.

Sometimes people make milkshakes with Oreo cookies in them. The development of premium ice creams has also produced "Cookies 'n Cream', vanilla ice cream with chunks of Oreo cookies included.

In 1998 the makers declared that Oreos were parve in Kosher diets. In 13 May 2003, British-born attorney Stephen Joseph filed suit charging Nabisco with using hydrogenated, or partially hydrogenated, oils to make the cookies. The suit was dropped as Nabisco considered replacing the hydrogenated oils with alternative oils.

The term is also used, primarily by African-Americans, as a derogatory term for a person who is black by ethnicity, yet whose sympathies lie with whites, often even with white racists. The term implies that the individual so described is "black on the outside, but white on the inside."