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Why Trump Says He’ll Never Eat Oreos Again (I am also swearing off them, and I ate them often)
The Blaze ^ | Aug. 22, 2015 10:15am | Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Posted on 08/22/2015 3:03:31 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network

Speaking to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Mobile, Alabama, Donald Trump had a confession to make: he may never eat Oreos again.

Trump, during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, has been outspoken about his displeasure of American companies moving overseas to China and Mexico, and his sentiments were expressed in full once again during his campaign stop in Alabama Friday night.

“You know, Mexico is the new China,” Trump told the crowd, referencing the recent decision by Nabisco to move its factories there.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: crapcookies; mexico; nabisco; oreos; trump
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To: TigersEye

That means that X-hundred Mexicans have jobs in Mexico and no reason to come here.

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Guess how much I care whether Mexicans have jobs? Zero.

That is the job of their Elite Government. Not ours. Not mine.


41 posted on 08/22/2015 3:45:02 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I swore off them years ago because they are big LGBT supporters.


42 posted on 08/22/2015 3:50:59 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Chickensoup

Where did I say that I cared whether they had jobs? I said they wouldn’t be coming here. Where did I say it was our government’s job to create jobs in Mexico? That’s what they’re doing now. I said I wanted our government to create more jobs here.

Is your reading comprehension always so pathetic?


43 posted on 08/22/2015 3:51:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You already posted the link to the article at the top it’s not necessary to post the url two posts later


44 posted on 08/22/2015 3:53:38 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: fhayek

Thanks for the laugh.


45 posted on 08/22/2015 3:54:09 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: TigersEye

Your quote:

I always have mixed feelings when I hear that an American company has opened a new plant in Mexico hiring X-hundred workers. That means that X-hundred Mexicans have jobs in Mexico and no reason to come here.


46 posted on 08/22/2015 4:00:33 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Chickensoup

Did you figure out what the means yet?


47 posted on 08/22/2015 4:02:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I’m eating Cookies n Cream ice cream tonight for desert.


48 posted on 08/22/2015 4:03:27 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Nabisco’s move says more about Chicago and Illinois than it does anything else.


49 posted on 08/22/2015 4:06:19 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: TigersEye

Yes, I did, you can’t write worth jack.


50 posted on 08/22/2015 4:06:32 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Hydrox cookies bake plans for comeback
Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY 6:45 a.m. EDT May 11, 2014
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The Oreo-buster is back.

Hydrox cookies, those Oreo-like chocolate sandwich cookies, could reappear on store shelves as early as September, says Ellia Kassoff, CEO of Leaf Brands, which recently acquired the rights to the unused Hydrox trademark.

“The cosmic difference between Hydrox and Oreo is that Hydrox is a little more crispy; a little less sugary and stands up better in milk,” says Kassoff, who will make the official announcement later this month at the Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago on May 20.

Even in a new world of nutritional consciousness, there is little evidence that America’s sweet tooth is fading. Sales of packaged cookies and baked goods are expected to top $17 billion by 2017 — up from $13 billion in 2012, reports Packaged Facts. While the return of Hydrox is expected to be a hit with Baby Boomers who may fondly remember the brand — formerly owned by Kellogg’s, Keebler and Sunshine — it may be a tougher sell with Millennials who are not very familiar with the cookie brand, which hasn’t been regularly sold on store shelves in almost a decade.

“We’ll use social media to reach out to Millennials,” says Kassoff. The 46-year-old CEO says that he likes to acquire old brands or trademarks that still have fans. “We recycle brands that get left on the side of the road.”

But the Hydrox brand has special meaning to him. As a young kid raised by parents who were Orthodox Jews, he was only permitted to eat Hydrox — not Oreos — because, he says, at the time, Oreos were not kosher but Hydrox were. Today, both are kosher.

The move by Leaf Brands — which also owns trademarks to Astro Pops, Wacky Wafers and Farts Candy — comes just two years after giant Oreo celebrated its 100th birthday. Little-known, however, is that Hydrox was the original creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie when it debuted in 1908 — followed four years later by Oreo.

But executives at Mondelez, which owns the Oreo brand, are hardly showing any signs of concern. “Oreo is America’s favorite cookie,” says Laurie Guzzinati, a company spokeswoman. She declined to comment specifically on the return of Hydrox. Oreo sales, which exceed $2 billion globally and $1 billion in North America, have grown double-digits in the U.S. for the past two years.

Its been years since Oreo had a genuine rival on the shelf. Kellogg stopped making Hydrox in 2002. Then, in 2008, when Hydrox turned 100, Kellogg briefly resumed distribution, but only for a limited time.

Hydrox still has an online fan page, and a few months ago, Bill Burnett, of Salina, Okla., posted this wishful note about Hydrox: “My brother and I loved them. I never got a taste for the inferior “Oreo,” which was far less tasty as the wonderful Hydrox. I think I’ve only bought one package of them in 50 years! Bring Hydrox back again!”

In fact, says Kassoff, it’s fans like Burnett who convinced him to bring back the brand. “I hear from all of them,” he says. “I know millions of people are waiting for the product.”

But unlike the cookies giants, which typically must sell at least $100 million worth of a brand for it to be an even modest success, Burnett says he can sell a fraction of that and do just fine.

The pricing will be roughly where Hydrox was for years: less expensive than Oreos but more expensive than store brands. If a 14-ounce package of Oreos retails for about $4; Hydrox will be $3 and store brand sandwich cremes often cost about $2, he says.

But success won’t come simply. At least one brand guru says Hydrox has lots of work to do. “Oreo conveys round and is fun to say and hear. Hydrox sounds scientific and medicinal ... not appetizing at all,” says Steven Addis, CEO of Addis. “Oreo has become part of the fabric of America. Like Coke. This makes it somewhat unassailable, even from a superior product.”

The cookies will be made at a factory in Southern California, but Kassoff won’t say where. Maybe he doesn’t want the fans lining up outside the gates just yet. But later this summer, when the first pack rolls of the line, Kassoff has big plans for that one.

“It’s mine,” he says. “I’m going to sit down and share it with my family.”


51 posted on 08/22/2015 4:07:28 PM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Chickensoup

It’s not my fault you’re a dumbass.


52 posted on 08/22/2015 4:09:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: doug from upland
from Hydrox twitter acct Hydrox Cookie ‏@HydroxCookie Aug 18 We would love to make a wall of #hydroxcookies between Mexico and the US for @realdonaldtrump. Of course there... http://fb.me/6OuDXEqVr
53 posted on 08/22/2015 4:09:39 PM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: TigersEye

you continue to show your lack of talent with stringing words into sentences.


54 posted on 08/22/2015 4:12:24 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Chickensoup
you continue to show your lack of talent with stringing words into sentences.

With an example like that I might be scratching pictographs on cave walls soon. lol

55 posted on 08/22/2015 4:14:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Dr. Sivana
A LOT of this has to do with sugar tariffs.

Sugar wholesales for less than 50 cents/pound. It's far more likely that cheaper labor led to this decision.

We can't blame this on the unions either - they could have easily moved the facilities to a southern right to work state.

56 posted on 08/22/2015 4:15:49 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Vermont Lt
Shipping is cheap.
So is wholesale sugar.
57 posted on 08/22/2015 4:17:10 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Eccl 10:2
Nabisco’s move says more about Chicago and Illinois than it does anything else.
Nabisco also bypassed every other site in the United States as well, including southern right to work states.

This is all about offshoring - nothing else.

58 posted on 08/22/2015 4:19:02 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I’m not getting it?
He just said last week it was OK for the Trump Ties, clothing to be manufactured in China because the nations policies forced him to.

I’m missing why it different for Nabisco?


59 posted on 08/22/2015 4:20:47 PM PDT by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I’ve started making my own oreo’s - there is a super recipe for chocolate sandwich cookies on the web. Excellent rich dark cocoa flavor.


60 posted on 08/22/2015 4:32:18 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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