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Can the two halves of an Oreo, taken individually, be considered "crackers"?
- Thread starter Aurc
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Dude, there's a million cookies with no fillings. Sugar cookies. Chocolate chips are just kind of wedged in there.
An Oreo is always a cookie. You can just make it two chocolate cookies or keep it as a cream cookie.
An Oreo is always a cookie. You can just make it two chocolate cookies or keep it as a cream cookie.
They're cookies.
The name is a holdover. They weren't originally sweet.
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Of course filling isn't necessary to deem the snack a "cookie", but don't you think the chocolate parts are awfully thin for a "cookie"?
The graham cracker refutes this.
Getting an early start on the 4th?
Anyway, this is correct
Anyway, this is correct
That really has nothing to do with what makes something a cookie or thin mints wouldn't be considered cookies either
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An interesting thing that a friend brought up was this:Are these crackers before you put ice cream between them?
They start as cookies, then when you put the filling in it's a sandwich cookie.
An ice cream sandwich is named after the ice cream component. The Oreo is a cookie sandwich (or the reverse). Therefor, the only true cookie part of the Oreo is the filling inside.
They have "cracker" in the name so are an exception.
source: my butt
Your logic is so incredibly flawed. Where did you get this "binding" as being a requirement for a cookie? Chocolate chip cookies aren't made up of multiple "crackers" oatmeal raisin isn't either. I could go on.
Proper noun that was misused.
Are these crackers before you put ice cream between them?
They start as cookies, then when you put the filling in it's a sandwich cookie.
My mind is telling me no, but my body......
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I brought the following up as well: dough isn't a pizza. Pepperoni isn't a pizza, marinara sauce isn't, cheese isn't, etc.
It's only a pizza when you combine those into one. Therefor, the Oreo is only a cookie when you combine the 2/3 cracker portions with the 1/3 filling portion.
The most logically sound definition so far.
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So you can cheat or "lifehack" a pack of Oreos by separating the pieces to create double the amount of cookies, for the same price? Doesn't seem right to me. You have to consider them crackers just so people can't pull some BS like that.
At that point, I believe I've transformed it into a cracker, much like how if I eat it, I'm turning it into poop. People's tongues can turn stuff into other things, basically.
It depends on the filling. I think it's a cookie if you use a sweet filling, but a savory "mini sandwich" if you use a salty or spicy filling.
