March 6, 1912, marked a pivotal moment in snacking history.
Throughout its history, the brand has rolled out countless sandwich cookies.
These range from dessert-inspired flavors likered velvetto moreeyebrow-raising varietieslike Swedish Fish.
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To see which Oreos reign supreme, I rounded up 11 options at my local ShopRite.
For some additional assistance, I also recruited three enthusiastic taste testers: my friends.
Here’s how the 11 Oreos stacked up.
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I picked up a family-size package of these for $5.49.
There were also a few sugar crystals randomly scattered in the cream.
The taste:The smell of these alone was enough to discourage me from taking a bite.
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The cloyingly sweet toffee scent matched the overly sugary, almost syrupy flavor of the cookie’s cream.
“That’s disgusting,” one taste tester said.
“This only has one thing going for it: it’s crunchy,” another one joked.
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We all were quick to try another flavor.
These festive sandwich cookies feature a birthday cake-flavored cream with colorful sprinkles in between two chocolate wafers.
I purchased a family-size package of these for $5.49.
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The look:These Oreos had a hearty amount of filling, beating out Double Stuf.
However, the white cream was speckled with confetti-like “sprinkles” that had a wax-like appearance.
I’ll take my birthday cake without the candles this time.
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The taste:Overwhelmingly sweet.
But this was no surprise considering the powerful frosting scent that diffused out of the package.
I snagged a family-size package of the citrusy flavor for $5.49.
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The taste:The lemon flavor started out light and subtle and grew increasingly stronger.
Others like peanut butterintheir Oreos.
This Oreo contains peanut butter-flavored cream in between two chocolate-flavored wafers.
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A family-size package cost me $5.49.
The look:These sandwich cookies had a Double Stuf amount of tan-colored cream.
The filling also had a notable sheen to it, giving off a slight oiliness.
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The taste:As someone who isn’t a major peanut butter fan, I enjoyed these Oreos.
Perhaps it was because I didn’t find the peanut butter flavor to be overly powerful.
In fact, I thought it was nicely balanced with the cookies' cocoa flavor.
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Another distinctive quality about this sandwich was its sticky mouthfeelnot uncommon for peanut butter.
Enter: the Golden Oreo.
The brand has since introduced a variety of flavors with these cookies.
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I purchased this package for $4.19.
The taste:Simple and sweet.
The vanilla flavor shined through in both the cookie and the cream.
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But when it comes to cookies, I will always choose chocolate over vanilla.
I picked up a family-size package of these for $4.19.
The look:This cookie had a slightly darker wafer than the original.
The taste:Oddly enough, this wasn’t particularly chocolaty.
In fact, a couple of us said this tasted like the original Double Stuf Oreonot a bad thing.
However, I wish this Oreo had a more distinctive chocolate flavor.
Churro
Out of all the flavors, I was most excited for this one.
I snagged these for $5.29.
The taste:These Oreos didn’t disappoint.
This Oreo is filled with layer of sweet mint-flavored cream.
The brand has other mint-flavored offerings, including gluten-free Oreos, Thins, and itsmost recent frozen treat line.
One family-size package of these cost me $5.49.
The look:Each sandwich cookie was filled with a layer of pale green cream.
However, the flavor wasn’t overpowering.
With Thin Mints being my favorite Girl Scout cookie flavor, I thoroughly enjoyed these Oreos.
The flavor was remarkably similar, offering a delightful balance between cool mint and cocoa.
Original
It’s the cookie we all know and love: the original Oreo.
I picked up a package for $3.57.
The look:Surprisingly skimpy on filling.
“Who knew there was that little cream?”
one taste tester questioned, prompting us to do some researchonly to find other consumersreporting similar sightings.
This was still the classic flavor I knew and enjoyed.
Still, there were a couple of other flavors that actually rose above the OG.
As a dark chocolate fan, these cookies were among the flavors that piqued my interest the most.
I purchased a family-size package for $5.49.
But, I’ll never say no to a dark chocolate-flavored treat.
The combination of the chocolate cookies and the dark chocolate cream wasn’t too rich either.
“It tastes like a chocolate Teddy Graham,” one of my friends said.
I later reached for another.
Double Stuf
In 1974, Oreo came out with a new cookie-to-cream ratio: Double Stuf.
And as its name implies, there appeared to be about twice as much cream.
There was enough sweetness from the cream to complement the cocoa flavor of the wafersjust as I had remembered.
