McDonalds v.s. Burger King

It is no secret that almost everyone likes fast food restaurants. As there are many different kinds of fast food restaurants, of coarse there are going to be rivalries. One of the rivalries are as you might have guessed are McDonalds & Burger King! Lets take a trip down the greasy french fry lane, shall we.

McDonolds is on our top of our list today. The first McDonald's was built in 1940 by the McDonald brothers (Dick and Mac). Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernardino, California.Dick and Mac McDonald were brothers who opened their first restaurant. It was named McDonald's Bar-B-Q, and it was a drive-in with car hop service. After several years in business, the McDonald brothers decided it was time for a change. They shut down the restaurant for renovations, reopened as simply McDonald's without the Bar-B-Q, and served hamburgers and cheeseburgers instead. After a year of serving their new menu, the brothers added a couple of items. Instead of potato chips they served French fries, and they also added milkshakes.

The brothers continued happily for a few years, but their vision evolved into a wish for their restaurant to grow. They met a salesman named Ray Kroc, who would help them grow the business. After only a few months Ray Kroc opened the first new location for the McDonald brothers. It featured the now-famous golden arches. McDonald's popularity skyrocketed. In just a few years running they had sold their one hundred millionth burger, and before long they would have over 700 stores. In 1962, the first store with indoor seating was opened. Also in 1966 Ronald McDonald the clown made his television debut in McDonald's very first TV commercial. He was an instant hit, and even walked in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. After the popularity in America, McDonald's opened its first international stores. Stores were opened in Canada and Puerto Rico.

Now we are gonna get our royal on. Well not really. Our second story for today is on Burger King. Every day, more than 11 million guests visit BURGER KING® restaurants around the world. And they do so because our restaurants are known for serving high-quality, great-tasting, and affordable food, says BK. It was founded in 1954, BURGER KING® is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world and the original HOME OF THE WHOPPER®.Miami entrepreneurs James McLamore and David Edgerton founded Burger King Corporation in 1954. Five years later, they were ready to expand their five Florida Burger Kings into a nationwide chain.

By the time they sold their company to Pillsbury in 1967, Burger King had become the third largest fast-food chain in the country and was on its way to second place, after industry leader McDonald's.The company franchises more than 10,400 restaurants and owns about 1,000 for a chainwide total exceeding 11,455, with locations in all 50 states and 56 countries. The company serves 15.7 million customers each day and over 2.4 billion Burger King hamburgers are sold each year across the globe. 

So which history story did you find the most interesting? This is my last blog and i have really enjoyed writing all of these blogs even though i know people really don't read them. Anyways here are some little extra facts about these two franchises. 

- More than 1.3 billion WHOPPER® sandwiches are sold each year worldwide!
- 221,184 ways to mix and match ingredients means countless ways to love the WHOPPER® sandwich.
- Emmy award-winning host, Ellen DeGeneres in her first stand-up act, ate a WHOPPER®, fries and a shake on stage.
- Over 11 million guests walk through the doors of a BURGER KING® restaurant worldwide each day.
- Hungry New Year! What day of the year holds the record for most WHOPPER® sandwiches sold? Dec.31.
- In the 10 seconds it takes you to read this fact, more than 400 Whopper® sandwiches have been enjoyed.
In fact, 41 Whopper® sandwiches are eaten around the world every second. - 1957 was the year the Whopper® was born
- In 1957, the cost of the Whopper® was only 37¢

-McDonald’s originally sold hot dogs, not hamburgers.
-1 in 8 Americans has been employed by a McDonald’s
-87,000 people recently petitioned McDonald’s to add a veggie burger to their menu.
-The Egg McMuffin was modeled after eggs benedict.

-McDonald’s in Colombia offers a pineapple Oreo McFlurry
-McDonald’s feeds 68 million people per day.
-The company sells more than 75 hamburgers per second.

Gatorade v.s. Powerade

Whenever you go on a little run or jog after a while you may feel a little dehydrated and you know the best thing to do when dealing with deterioration is to get a drink of some sort. Water is usually one of the main things you drink when you are tired but sometimes you just need a little sugar to get you hyped up.  Sports drink are usually good for those types of things. There are many different types of brands of sports drinks but the two main ones i think would be Gatorade and Powerade. Don't hate me but i like them both equally. I feel like poweade may taste a little bit more like water than it does sports drink. But either way I liken them equally. As i have been doing in my past blogs i like to give you guys a little bit of a background of  both of the items of I have presented to you. So here it goes.

Its time to get a little bit sciency in the lab of the Gatorade. It all started in  the summer of 1965 when a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university physicians and asked them to determine why so many of his players were being affected by heat and heat related illnesses.The researchers — Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada — soon discovered two key factors that were causing the Gator players to 'wilt': the fluids and electrolytes the players lost through sweat were not being replaced, and the large amounts of carbohydrates the players' bodies used for energy were not being replenished.They soon took their findings into the lab, and scientifically formulated a new, precisely balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage that would adequately replace the key components lost by Gator players through sweating and exercise. They called their concoction ‘Gatorade'.I'm not quite sure how they came up with the name though.

After the gator players were introduced to the new invention they certainly showed some improvement. They actually began winning. GO GATORS! Word about Gatorade began to spread outside of the state of Florida, and both the University of Richmond and Miami of Ohio, began ordering batches of Gatorade for their football teams. Orders from other college football programs across the country soon followed, as playing without Gatorade on your sidelines began to be likened to playing with just ten men on the field.

In the summer of 1969, Coach Ray Graves of the Florida Gators suggested to the Kansas City Chiefs that they use Gatorade to combat the staggering effects of a blistering Missouri sun during training camp. The Chiefs were so impressed with the “Gator coach's aid” that they kept it on their sidelines throughout the entire season… which concluded with a stunning victory over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. In the years that followed, more and more NFL teams began placing Gatorade on the sidelines of their games and practices, and in 1983, Gatorade became the official sports drink of the NFL—a title it holds to this day. Lets go forward with the story of the powderade.

Powerade was first introduced in 1988 to compete with Gatorade in sports drink sales. During that same year, Powerade became the official sports drink of the Olympics. In July 2002, The Coca-Cola Company created new bottles for Powerade which had a sport-like grip. Powerade Option was introduced in the same year to compete with Pepsico’s Propel. Option was colorless and advertised as being a “low calorie sports drink.” A new version of Powerade, called Powerade Zero, was released in 2008. It is a zero-calorie sports drink with no carbohydrates, although it does contain electrolytes. Powerade’s main competition is Gatorade, which brings me to why I am blogging about this.

Since it was first introduced in 1988, Powerade has become the official sports drink of the Australian, New Zealand, and Ireland rugby teams, the AFL, PGA Tour, NASCAR, NHRA, NCAA, the U.S. Olympic Team (excluding basketball and soccer, which have deals with Gatorade) and several other leagues and organizations around the world. Over the year the years there have been many deiscontinued flavors here are a list of discontinued flavors for powerade and some original Gatorade flavors. What turned out to be your favorite?

Discontinued Flavors of powerade:
•Arctic Shatter
•Green Squall
•Belly Burst
•Orange Tangerine
•Dark Downburst
•Jagged Ice
•Black Cherry Lime
•Infrared Freeze
•Cherry Apple
•Flava 23 Sour Berry
•Flava 23 Sour Melon

Different Gatorade flavors:
Lemon Lime (green)
* Orange (orange possibly inspired by the Gators' Orange Bowl win.)
Fruit Punch (red)
Iced Tea Cooler (brown, discontinued in 1995)
* Grape (dark purple, discontinued, replaced by Fierce Grape)
Frost Glacier Freeze (light blue)
* Frost Riptide Rush (purple)
* Frost Alpine Snow (white, discontinued.)
* Frost Whitewater Splash (green, discontinued)
* Frost Clear Melon (colorless, discontinued)
* Lemon Ice (colorless, discontinued)

Ice-Cream v.s. Fro-Yo

Americans love frozen desserts. We spend about $25 billion on the stuff on most frozen treats. And what better frozen treats are there that are better than ice-cream and frozen yogurt. They’re both frozen treats, both dairy-based, both yummy. There are many different variety of both that it makes it harder to just pick one. Ice-cream and frozen yogurt are almost similar in texture but totally different in taste. Well at least i think so. It is almost hardly impossible to pick. So that is why I am going to talk about their history and what not. So which frozen treat will win this intense face-off?
Lets start of by understanding what these frozen treats are if you have never came into contact with which i am sure most of you have. Frozen yogurt is a frozen dessert made with yogurt and sometimes other dairy products. It varies from slightly to much more tart than ice cream, as well as being lower in fat. I don't want to get into all the nutritional facts about frozen yogurt but it is a healthier alternative to ice-cream. Any who, there are many interesting things on our famous frozen yogurt. It might be surprising to some to find out that today's hottest frozen dessert treat, frozen yogurt, actually has its origins in the early 1970s. Many customers didn't particularly care for the tart taste of the original recipes. It wasn't until more sugar was introduced to help balance the dessert's tartness that it finally started gaining in popularity during the 1980s. But, even as its popularity increased through the 80s, the dessert was still largely considered a fad and in no way a serious contender to ice cream as the king of frozen desserts. By the 1990s, frozen yogurt had taken a 10% share of the frozen dessert market.

While frozen yogurt's popularity held steady through the 90s, it wasn't until the introduction of the self serve frozen yogurt franchise in the 2000s that the dessert finally started taking off. In addition to utilizing new manufacturing technologies, recipe experiments, and the addition of a huge assortment of toppings, today's frozen yogurt is tastier and healthier than ever before, making it a favorite dessert option for health-minded individuals and ice cream converts alike. So i guess you have figured out already that frozen yogurt dose not have a long story to it. Mostly because it was started not too long ago. Hopefully this gave you a pretty good idea on Frozen Yogurt. Now on-wards to the ice-cream!

Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin nor inventor has been undisputably credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavored with fruits and juices. France was introduced to similar frozen desserts in 1553 by the Italian Catherine de Medici when she became the wife of Henry II of France. It wasn't until 1660 that ice cream was made available to the general public.

The first official account of ice cream in the New World comes from a letter written in 1744 by a guest of Maryland Governor William Bladen. In 1813, Dolley Madison served a magnificent strawberry ice cream creation at President Madison's second inaugural banquet at the White House. Manufacturing ice cream soon became an industry in America, pioneered in 1851 by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell. Like other American industries, ice cream production increased because of technological innovations, including steam power, mechanical refrigeration, the homogenizer, electric power and motors, packing machines, and new freezing processes and equipment. Ice cream became an edible morale symbol during World War II. Each branch of the military tried to outdo the others in serving ice cream to its troops. In 1945, the first "floating ice cream parlor" was built for sailors in the western Pacific. When the war ended, and dairy product rationing was lifted, America celebrated its victory with ice cream. Americans consumed over 20 quarts of ice cream per person in 1946.

I find it very interesting on how long the ice-cream history is. And it is also interesting how we have been eating something that dates back to such a long time ago. Now, specialty ice cream stores and unique restaurants that feature ice cream dishes have surged in popularity. These stores and restaurants are popular with those who remember the ice cream shops and soda fountains of days past, as well as with new generations of ice cream fans.

I personally can't choose in between neither of theses treats. They are both absolutely delicious and for me they are both winners. Today, it is estimated that over 1.6 billion gallons of ice cream and related frozen dairy products are produced annually in the United States alone. In addition, U.S. citizens eat a whopping four gallons of ice cream per person each year on average. There were approximetly 74 million gallons of frozen yogurt produced last year. No wonder i cant choose!

Pancakes v.s Waffles

Pancakes and waffles. 2 out of the many delightful and most common breakfast items here in the U.S. They are both so delicious but which one is more than the other. You may be one of those people that say that there is no way of choosing just one. Or you may be indecisive on which one you really like best. In order to help you get a good idea on both, i am going to talk about where they started and some interesting facts about both. What will it be? Pancakes or waffles?

So first off, what is a pancake? A pancake is a flat cake, often thin, and round, prepared from a starch-based batter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan. It is fluffy , light and can be accompanied by fresh fruit and a touch of syrup. Pancakes are ancient food. The word pancakes appears in print as early as 1430. Pancakes may have been around since Neolithic humans domesticated einkorn wheat, ground it into flour mixed with bird’s egg and goat’s milk and poured the batter on a heated rock. The ancient cooks dropped a little gruel on a hot rock of campfire, resulting in thin cakes that were tastier than plain gruel or cakes cooked directly in the embers of the fire.The ancient Greeks used griddles to cook a flat loaf drizzled with honey called ‘kreion’ and cakes of soft cheese. Medieval pancakes, frequently made form barley or rye and lacking leavening, were relatively heavy affairs. They were quite different from contemporary fluffy or tender versions.

The ingredients for pancakes can be seen to symbolize four points of significance at this time of year:

Eggs ~ Creation

Flour ~ The staff of life

Salt ~ Wholesomeness

Milk ~ Purity

Nowadays pancakes are prepared similar how they were back then. Pancakes have a variety and differing amounts of ingredients are used, but the following are the primary ones: dry ingredients are flour, leavening, some sugar, salt, with wet ones, such as milk or buttermilk, eggs, and some melted butter or oil. Sometimes flavorings, chocolate chips, fruit purees, berries, etc. are added to pancake and waffle batters for a wide multitude of variations. Pancakes are such a great hit that it even has it own special day.

Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday is the name by which Shrove Tuesday is also known in Britain and Ireland, and Australia. It is celebrated on 12th February .Pancake Day is celebrated every year in all 'My Old Dutch' Restaurants, which are in Kensington, Holborn and Chelsea. Unfortunately, due to high demand - bookings are not taken in the restaurants. Queues will form outside the restaurants at peak times. On this day there are things like Pancake Races , Tossing Pancakes , and much more.

Waffles aren't much different to the pancake. They are made up of the same ingredients but the shape and size if very different. Waffles are made from a batter consisting of flour, eggs, sugar, butter, milk and baking powder. The baking powder helps the waffle acquire the fluffy texture. Waffles are cooked on a waffle iron and can come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Waffles originated in the early Middle Ages, around the period of the9th-10th centuries.Belgium has a large variety of waffles. Liège waffles, the most popular Belgian waffle variety, are rumored to have been invented during the 18th century by the chef of the prince-bishop of Liège. However, there are no German, French, Dutch, or Belgian cookbooks that contain references to them. A full Gaufre de Liège recipe does not appear until 1921.

The Liège waffle is a richer, denser, sweeter, and chewier waffle. It is native to the greater Wallonia region of Eastern Belgium, and it is alternately know as gaufres de chasse or hunting waffles. They're an adaptation of brioche bread dough, featuring chunks of pearl sugar which caramelize on the outside of the
waffle when baked. The Belgian waffle made its first American appearance at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. But it was at the 1964-65 World's Fair hosted in Queens, N.Y that Belgian native Maurice Vermersch and his family made the waffle's popularity skyrocket. 

Waffles also got their own day becuase of the love people have for them. . This holiday originated in Sweden. It is called Våffeldagen. The holiday coincides with the Feast of the Annunciation. This day was also considered the start of spring in Sweden and Europe. It became a custom for Swedish families to celebrate the two events by making waffles on this day.The alternative Waffle Day began in the USA and honors the anniversary of the patenting of the first US waffle iron invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York and is celebrated on 24th August.

Whichever day is picked to honor the waffle and the pancake they're both certainly deserving of celebration because they are remarkable and are handy to have for breakfast, lunch or dinner, snack or dessert. So after all this new knowledge that you collected about theses breakfast items, which one is your favorite? Pancake, or waffles?

Tacos v.s. Burritos

Tacos and burritos are some of the best Mexican authentic foods. There has been a big dilemma on which one is better. We all have different opinions on whether you like tacos, burritos or even both. To help you guys choose on which one you guys like better I am going to talk about both of these food choices and let you guys decide which one is the best for you. So what is it gonna be tacos, or burritos?

Personally I like Burritos the best so that is why I am going to talk a little on where the burrito was originated from and what makes it so awesome. One of the things that I found interesting about the burrito is how it got its name. If you know Spanish, the you should know that a "Burro" means donkey . When you think about it, it you know that a burrito usually don't have any donkey in it so its name probably didn't come from that. It has been said that a man named Juan Mendez from Chihuahua, Mexico used a donkey to carry around his supplies for his food cart. To keep the food warm, he would wrap it up in a big homemade flour tortilla. I think that this story can be somewhat true but i guess we will never really know. The burrito first appeared in the early 1900s, right around the time of the Mexican-American war, this quick, easy food item quickly became popular. Thus, the theory is that the concoction got its name because it was sold out of a donkey cart.

Whether Juan Mendez sold burritos on a donkey cart or had something to do with how popular they became, it’s unlikely that he created the burrito. The Diccionario de Mexicanismos has an entry for the burrito as early as 1895, quite a few years before Juan’s time. The entry states that a burrito is “A rolled tortilla with meat or other ingredients inside, called ‘coçito’ in Yucatán and ‘taco’ in the city of Cuernavaca and in Mexico City.” The term burrito was popular in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico. As the dictionary entry is the only hard and fast evidence we have to show where burritos came from, the idea that they originated in Guanajuato seems to be the most likely. However the food got its name, it certainly caught on quickly and has evolved a great deal since it was first created. A simple mix of meat, cheese, and tomato has turned into a full-blow meal with rice, beans, meat, cheese, vegetables, and sauces wrapped up in a heavy-duty tortilla.

The burrito made its way into the US in the 1900s. The first mention of a burrito on a U.S. menu was in the 1930s at the El Cholo Spanish Café in Los Angeles, though burritos had likely been making the rounds in the states before then. California is still well-known for its burritos, with the Mission burrito—arguably the most popular style of burrito in the United States—originating in San Francisco. The Mission burrito is wrapped up in a tortilla and then again in aluminum foil—this is the sort that is commonly served at restaurants like Chipotle, Qdoba, and Freebirds. I could really go for a burrito right now. How about you?

So on to the taco. Tacos can either be served in a taco shell or a soft shell. In 2012 alone people in the U.S. consumed 4.5 billion tacos. That's alot of tacos! Tacos have a long history that has been said to start during the 19th century. But of coarse we will never really know. The first recorded taco party in history was recorded in 15 20 by Herman Cortes. It was right before he went to go kill the Aztecs which makes it a little weird. It is believed that the origin of the taco started in Mexican silver mines. During this time a taco was known as a piece of paper wrapped around gunpowder. I definitely wouldn't want to bite into one of those things. have you ever realized that taquitos look similar to a stick of dynamite? Taquito is a Spanish word that translates to small taco. the taco isn't an age-old cultural food, and it is fairly new, compared to some of the other Mexican foods dating back to Aztec times.

Many women migrants brought tacos to Mexico City to sell for income. These women eventually made Mexico City into the hub for tacos, with many different styles and kinds of tacos that people could sample. The taco originally came to the U.S. through migrants that traveled to the Los Angeles area in the early 1900s. It was originally seen as a low-class street food. The tacos that were sold as street food in the U.S. were not traditional tacos that you would find in Mexico. This is due to the fact that the ingredients that are available in the United States are not the same as the ingredients that are available in Mexico.

Tacos were originally in a soft tortilla. It wasn't until 1947 that the hard shelled taco was used because the original tortilla did not stay fresh for very long. In 1954 Glen Bell opens up a little taco stand called Taco Tia. Later on in Downey California, he opens up the first Mexican fast food franchise called Taco Bell. Because the taco was so popular hit nation wide, it has its own appreciation day on October 4th. As i had said before in 2012 alone people in the U.S. consumed 4.5 billion tacos. That is 490,00 miles long of tacos. It is actually enough to get to the moon and back. 750 million pounds of taco that is , which is also the weight of the empire state building. Actually not just one but 2 empire state buildings!

No matter if you choose tacos or burritos I am going to leave that up to you to choose. There is not denying that both are eaten by millions of consumers each year. They are convenient when you don't know what to make for lunch or dinner. So what will it be, taco or burrito? 

History of Lindt Lindor Chocolates

The worlds most Delicious, most amazing, most creamiest chocolate know to man. There is absolutely no chocolate that can be better than lindt lindor chocolate. Well to me at least it is. This is not your ordinary Hershey bar or a snickers, it is way more than that. This little chocolate truffle is packed with passion, craftsmanship, innovation and quality of Lindt tradition that dates back to 1845.

Rodolphe Lindt (1855 - 1909) founded a chocolate factory in Bern in 1879. He developed two important improvements in manufacture which made his chocolate much smoother and less bitter than that of its rivals, as well as being easier to mould. Lindt put the chocolate mixture into a roller grinder where it was kept moving for 3 days. The action warmed the mixture and the movement aerated it. He further refined the chocolate by adding cocoa butter. The experiment was so successful that he had a special machine built which he called a "conch" because of its vaguely shell-like, long, thin shape.

There was a big advantage to this which was that after the conching process, the chocolate had become liquid and could be poured into moulds. This made production much faster: previously the paste had been much more solid, and had to be pressed into the moulds by hand. Later on Lindt came from a wealthy Bernese family, and was more interested in the quality of his output than he was in making money. He made no attempt to expand his company, or to attract as many customers as possible. He decided himself who he would sell to, and how much, targeting the best social circles, including wealthy foreigners. His chocolate became famous not only because of its quality, but also because of its scarcity.

However, Lindt, and two of his relatives, August and Walter, resigned in 1905 - and almost immediately registered a new company under the name of A and W Lindt. Sprüngli brought a case for breach of contract which took 20 years to settle - by which time Sprüngli himself was dead. A and W Lindt was wound up, and the Lindt & Sprüngli business has continued to thrive and now has production facilities in a number of countries all over the world.

Though the shape and design have evolved over time, the secret of Lindor's smooth-melting recipe has remained unchanged for more than 60 years. Since 1949, Lindor has delighted millions with its delectable combination of exquisitely smooth chocolate and the artistic mastery of Lindt's Master Chocolatiers. Since 1949, Lindor has delighted millions with its delectable combination of exquisitely smooth chocolate and the artistic mastery of Lindt's Master Chocolatiers. But how is this exquisitely smooth chocolate made you may ask? They are made of high quality chocolate and use only cocoa butter. Yes they may be a little high in priced but it is totally worth it. I honestly believe that if you haven't tried this chocolate before , you very much should . Here are some of the different Chocolate truffles this chocolate company has came up with.

• Milk Chocolate 
• Ultimate
• White Chocolate 
• Dark Chocolate 
• Caramel
• Sea Salt 
• 60% Extra Dark Chocolate
• Stracciatella 
• Hazelnut 
• Vanilla 
• Peanut Butter 
• Raspberry
• Mint
• Orange/Dark Chocolate 
• Coffee 

History of the Oreo

Oreos are one of the many yummy cookies in the United States and world wide. There is a variety of the many different flavors of the Oreo cookie. They have a long history, like 100 years long ! It all started with an dream to take biscuits to the next level.

The Oreo was born on March 6, 1912. In 1898 there were many companies that came together to make what we now call Nabisco which is the creator of the famous Oreo. The original idea was to take two buttery biscuit rounds made of chocolate and fill with some creme in the middle. The first Oreo is very alike to the one we have today only that the design on the biscuit is different . The Oreo is designed with a patterned thin edge and center. The name OREO is placed in the middle of the cookie. The two outer disks are wafers and filled with what we call the creme. The shape and design of the Oreo cookie didn't change much until Nabisco began selling various versions of the cookie. In 1975, Nabisco released their DOUBLE STUF Oreos. Nabisco continued to create variations. Some of these variations were Fudge covered Oreos introduced in 1987, Halloween Oreos introduced in 1991, and Christmas Oreos that were introduced in 1995.

One of the things that Oreo lovers constantly ask is how did Oreos get there name? We are not exactly sure. Some believe that the cookie's name was taken from the French word for gold, "or" (the main color on early Oreo packages). Others claim the name stemmed from the shape of a hill-shaped test version; thus naming the cookie in Greek for mountain, "Oreo." Still others believe the name is a combination of taking the "re" from "cream" and placing it between the two "o"s in "chocolate" - making "o-re-o." No matter how it got named, over 362 billion Oreo cookies have been sold since it was first introduced in 1912, making it the best selling cookie of the 20th century.

The oreo is also in over 100 countries but is the most popular in the United States. At this current time there has now been over 491 billion cookies sold and produced here. The oreo cookie in the U.S. is "egg and dairy free." The oreo is made now at supposedly 21 bakeries world wide. How do you eat your oreo cookie? Do you know that almost half of the people that eat oreos do what we call the "Twist, Lick, Dunk Ritual?" It is where you take apart the cookie and eat one side first. They say that "women do it more than men."

Oreo has big flavor in every little bite. It it one of the things that we have all grown up with which means we should always have a little place in our heart for it . I know i do!

Here are some of the many different flavors that Oreo has to offer:
United States:
Red Velvet
Cookie Dough
Marshmallow Crispy
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
Pumpkin Spice
Fruit Punch
Root Beer Float
Limeade
Carmel Apple

China:
Oreo green tea ice cream: Oreo cookie with green tea ice cream flavor crème with a cooling sensation that simulates ice cream.
Oreo wafers: Oreo in a traditional wafer cookie form that’s popular in China
Oreo Double-Fruit in Orange & Mango and Raspberry & Blueberry crème

Indonesia:Oreo Vanilla
Oreo Chocolate
Oreo Double Delight (Chocolate and Peanut)
Oreo Strawberry
Oreo Blueberry Ice Cream
Oreo Orange Ice Cream
Oreo Golden Vanilla

Argentina:
Oreo “x3” (pronounced “Por Tres”) — features three layers of cookie, and two layers of creme
Oreo Duo — features a layer of creme featuring two complementary “half and half” flavors. Two varieties: Strawberry and vanilla; banana and dulce de leche
Oreo Alfajor—three layers of Oreo cookie and crème covered in chocolate in the form of a traditional Argentine snack cake

Mexico:
Oreo Trio Chocolate—three different chocolates in the same Oreo
Oreo Cookies & Crème
Oreo Double Stuf
Oreo Dark Fudge
Oreo White Fudge