It's so funny that you isolated that suggestion, bc when I read it in the other thread, I wrote it off...But now, I have SUCH a craving. Cya'll I'm heading to the store.
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It's all about double chocolate milanos which they don't make anymore. Which is sad as chocolate needs to be pure and doesn't need mint or fruit in it but MORE CHOCOLATE!
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Isn't it weird how thoughts of certain foods can take you back in time? The first time I had Mint Milanos I was 16. My (then) boyfriend introduced me to them because they sold them at the snack bar in the building where he had his Political Science class. They still make me remember sitting outside his classroom on Thursday evenings reading Star Wars novels. :-)
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We call them "potato chip cookies" because my sister's kids called them that. I like orange better than mint. They have raspberry, too.
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I've never had the orange ones. KitKat put out a limited edition of orange flavored KitKats some years ago, and they were delish.
I tried the double chocolate Milanos, but the proportions were off for my taste. I'd choose regular Milanos over probably any cookie in the world except for Mint Milanos.
The day Pepperage Farm went kosher was an even happier one than the day Oreos went kosher. At least for me.
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Thanks for reminding me about Oreos. Knowing I will never feel obliged to eat another Orea is one of the few perks of being gluten intolerant. Oreos are vile.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: I've never had the orange ones.
Bizarre. The supermarkets here always have them.
<shrug> Maybe it's a California thing.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Oreos are vile.
AMEN!
When I was a kid, long before they came up with Double Stuff, I used to make my own double Oreos. Sometimes I'd just say the hell with the cookies, scrape the middle out of half a dozen of them, roll it into a ball and snack on it.
But have you tried the mint Oreos? Much, much better.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Thanks for reminding me about Oreos. Knowing I will never feel obliged to eat another Orea is one of the few perks of being gluten intolerant. Oreos are vile.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Thanks for reminding me about Oreos. Knowing I will never feel obliged to eat another Orea is one of the few perks of being gluten intolerant. Oreos are vile.
You just don't remember how good they are.
O contraire. I remember quite well how vile they are.
Years ago, when I first met my SIL, I made a crack about how horrid Oreos are (flavorless rock hard black cookies filled with sugar lard frosting, blickk). She took deep offense for which I have still not been forgiven. For years there after I felt obliged to eat Oreos when they were offered despite their vileness. But now I can polite say, "No, I'm gluten intolerant" and I never have to eat another Oreo.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Thanks for reminding me about Oreos. Knowing I will never feel obliged to eat another Orea is one of the few perks of being gluten intolerant. Oreos are vile.
You just don't remember how good they are.
O contraire. I remember quite well how vile they are.
Years ago, when I first met my SIL, I made a crack about how horrid Oreos are (flavorless rock hard black cookies filled with sugar lard frosting, blickk). She took deep offense for which I have still not been forgiven. For years there after I felt obliged to eat Oreos when they were offered despite their vileness. But now I can polite say, "No, I'm gluten intolerant" and I never have to eat another Oreo.
Lactose intolerant people also hate Oreos. It's the same reason for why bread bereft of butter and butter bereft of bread are inadvisable.
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So Rabbit, I'm trying to figure out whether your offense was in holding the opinion that Oreos are vile, or in expressing that opinion after she offered them to you? If the latter, I can get why she was put out (although never forgiving such a minor offense is clearly not a good way to maintain family relations). If the former, I'll bet she's one of those people who walks around in a perpetual state of umbrage.
I love the little lardy black things. But I try not to eat them around other people because I always end up w/ black stuff in my teeth.
And Orange Milanos chilled in the fridge are scrumptious.
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I am intolerant of neither gluten nor lactose, and Oreos are HORRIBLE and NASTY. And the very notion of deliberately eating extra of the vile Crisco-plus-powdered-sugar-nastiness they call a filling made me gag.
I've had the mint. It doesn't help much. Nasty + mint is still nasty.
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I can't stand cotton candy, licorice though is probably hands down the most disgusting confection I know of.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: licorice though is probably hands down the most disgusting confection I know of.
Assuming you mean the black stuff, I'm with you.
The red can be good.
I had such a terrible experience with red, I had to believe black was just as bad. I know it's wrong to have come to such a snap judgment but I don't know if I could build up the courage to put the stuff in my mouth again.
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The black is nasty because of taste, not texture. And black and red have VERY different flavors.
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I think there should be different words for the cookies that are sold in bulk (oreo, thin mint, milano) and the type that are baked at home (chocolate chip, oatmeal, peanut butter, snickerdoodle etc). They are so far removed from each other that they shouldn't even have the same name. I can hardly stomach most commercially baked cookies of any description, but love love LOVE home baked (or fresh bakery like Great Harvest-baked) cookies.
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quote:Originally posted by maui babe: I think there should be different words for the cookies that are sold in bulk (oreo, thin mint, milano) and the type that are baked at home (chocolate chip, oatmeal, peanut butter, snickerdoodle etc). They are so far removed from each other that they shouldn't even have the same name.
I agree 100%. I think we should borrow from the brits and call the hard dry mass produced kind "biscuits" and the soft chewy home baked kind "cookies". I do actually like many of the hard dry boxed cookies, but you are correct that they really have very little in common with a good soft chewy delicious home made cookie.
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quote:From Lisa: But have you tried the mint Oreos? Much, much better.
Amen to that. They're little discs of minty goodness, but the local grocery stores around here seem to only stock them as a holiday item. They aren't here year round.
I'm not a huge fan of normal Oreos, but those are the best.
As far as cookies you can buy, I've never had a Milano, but nothing beats a Samoa as far as I'm concerned. When they came out with Samoa ice cream, it was the best day ever.
For home made cookies: Molasses cookies and pumpkin cookies are the best. The absolute best. Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong. Wrong.
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You know I always used to roll my eyes at work (I work at a restaurant) whenever a server would ask me what our gluten free options were. Really, other than salad, we didn't have that many, and the ones we do have are a huge pain in the butt to prepare.
But then last year my future sister in law was diagnosed with Celiac's, which means no gluten. I never realized just how limited their options were, or how much of an insensitive jerk I was being.
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The reason heavenly foods you can't try are so heavenly is that you only know of the ideal, and can't partake of the real. What's true is that ideal cookies always taste far better than real ones. So, the answer is clearly to eat virtual cookies, which contain no gluten and have all the taste properties of ideal cookies, i.e. perfection!
(tosses out large zip-lock bags filled with virtual cookies of every description)
Here, enjoy!
P.S They're also cheaper and have no calories. How can you beat perfection such as that?
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: As far as cookies you can buy, I've never had a Milano, but nothing beats a Samoa as far as I'm concerned. When they came out with Samoa ice cream, it was the best day ever.
True.
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Luckily, no one has offered these to me yet. But some day some one is going to go out of their way to get me a gluten free treat and buy these. And it will be such a considerate thing to do that I will feel obliged to eat them, no matter how nasty they turn out to be.
It is a real problem. It hasn't happened with these cookies yet, but it has happened with other gluten free items. And the thing is, that I really do appreciate it when people go out of their way to get something gluten free for me. Its very thoughtful and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy when people do it. Its such a pity when it goes a rye either because they've purchased something nasty or because they've purchased something that isn't actually gluten free. If the problem is simply that the product is nasty, I eat it because I really do appreciate the effort. When the product turns out to contain gluten, its a much bigger problem because even though I really appreciate the effort -- I'm not willing to poison my self to show it.
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BTW, I just had a fantastic idea for your Christmas present, Rabbit. If you'll email me with your mailing address. *whistles innocently*
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Fairly decent cookies can be made gluten free out of rice flour, tapioca flour, etc. But they still can't make a decent gluten-free bread substitute. Rice flour just produces a texture that is too heavy. I can lighten it a little by adding pure corn starch, but it still is not adequate. Adding a little flax seed improves rice-based bread somewhat, as well. But there simply is no substitute for gluten, and it is the gluten that is needed to make light and fluffy and tastey bread.
As for your wheat-based Oreos--us Celiacs can't eat your Hobbit food!
Speaking of presents--silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Thanks for reminding me about Oreos. Knowing I will never feel obliged to eat another Orea is one of the few perks of being gluten intolerant. Oreos are vile.
You just don't remember how good they are.
O contraire. I remember quite well how vile they are.
Years ago, when I first met my SIL, I made a crack about how horrid Oreos are (flavorless rock hard black cookies filled with sugar lard frosting, blickk). She took deep offense for which I have still not been forgiven. For years there after I felt obliged to eat Oreos when they were offered despite their vileness. But now I can polite say, "No, I'm gluten intolerant" and I never have to eat another Oreo.
Lactose intolerant people also hate Oreos. It's the same reason for why bread bereft of butter and butter bereft of bread are inadvisable.
I am pretty sure Oroes are dairy free. Not that it matter to me, becasue they are vile. Give me Trader Joe's Joe-Joe's anyday.
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