The Unsung Heroes of Biscuit Embossing

[Ragnar]

I have to say the whole Oreo/Da Vinci Code thing was a bit of a surprise but it's a quick and fun cookie history anyway.

Hail to the Oreo. So say we all!

The Unsung Heroes of Biscuit Embossing

Interestingly, when the Oreo was first introduced by Nabisco in 1912, it used a much more organic wreath for its emboss, later augmented with two pairs of turtledoves in a 1924 redesign. The contemporary Oreo stamp was introduced in 1952, and it has remained unchanged, and, in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “the stuff of legend,” ever since.

Writing in 1986, to mark the cookie’s seventy-fifth birthday, Goldberger declared that the Oreo “stands as the archetype of its kind, a reminder that cookies are designed as consciously as buildings, and sometimes better.”...

 

[JW Frogen]

I have eaten mountains of Oreos and never really looked at the art of it, interesting.

It would make a good manhole design too.

Down with minimalism everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mad Scientist]

Great thread title!