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LONDON -- "It's very dark. It's almost black." May Woodward, an office worker in central London, is holding an Oreo cookie in her hands. It's the first time she has ever seen one "in the flesh as opposed to on an American TV show," and she's not sure she likes what she sees. "It's the color of wet mud!" she complains. "And the bit ... looks like toothpaste rather than cream." She twists and turns the cookie in her fingers, staring at it from every angle with a screwed-up look on her face that seems to say, "Gross!" not "Mmm,...

MORRIS, Ill. (AP) — Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway. Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on Interstate 80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median. "The boxes came out of the trailer and boxes were ripped open," he said. The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation. Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes...

Unlike its iconic American counterpart, the Oreo sold in China is frequently long, thin, four-layered and coated in chocolate. But both kinds of cookies have one important thing in common: They are now best sellers. The Oreo has long been the top-selling cookie in the U.S. market. But Kraft Foods had to reinvent the Oreo to make it sell well in the world's most populous nation. While Chinese Oreo sales represent a tiny fraction of Kraft's $37.2 billion in annual revenue, the cookie's journey in China exemplifies the kind of entrepreneurial transformation that CEO Irene Rosenfeld is trying to spread...

Robert Fliegel was craving a Hydrox. The 52-year-old computer consultant says he always liked the way the chocolate sandwich cookie, which he found crisper than Oreos, "stood up to the milk" when dunked. But Mr. Fliegel, who used to be able to devour an entire package of the crème-filled biscuits in a sitting, couldn't find them in any stores near his East Stroudsburg, Pa., home. Only when he went online a few months ago to try to order some did he learn the truth: Hydrox is dead. In 2003, without warning or announcement, Kellogg Co. killed off the cookie --...

NOTHING BRINGS OUT RACIST slurs like an ambitious black man who doesn't know his ''place." So when Maryland's lieutenant governor, Michael Steele, announced his candidacy for the US Senate recently, the bigots reared up. On one popular website, The News Blog, Steele's picture was grotesquely doctored, making him look like a minstrel-show caricature. ''I's Simple Sambo and I's Running for the Big House," read the insulting headline accompanying the picture. This wasn't some white supremacist slime from the right-wing fringe. The News Blog is a liberal site, and the reason for its racist attack on Steele, a former chairman of...

Media reports of Oreo cookies employed as a racist taunt during a 2002 Maryland gubernatorial campaign debate have recently come under dispute. Now, the media that reported the story—in many instances without independent confirmation or transparent sourcing—is struggling to explain how a racially charged (and apparently controversial) claim by Republican politicians became an accepted fact in major newspapers across the country. At issue is the question of whether Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, was pelted by, mocked with, or otherwise in the presence of Oreo cookies, which are white on the inside, at a raucous Baltimore debate...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's long winter will just fly by for a herd of Russian cows which, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, will be fed confiscated marijuana over the cold months. Drug workers said they adopted the unusual form of animal husbandry after they were forced to destroy the sunflowers and maize crops that the 40 tonnes of marijuana had been planted among, Novye Izvestia daily reported. "There is simply no other way out. You see, the fields are planted with feed crops and if we remove it all the cows will have nothing to eat," a Federal Drugs Control...

Troops in some army units and the Officer Cadet School are trying Uncle Toby's cereal bars, Kellogg's Frosties cereal and Oreo biscuits as field rations. Their ration packs already contain fruit bars and biscuits, but they are given unfamiliar brands which come in "unappealing" drab green or transparent plastic packaging. Explaining the switch, Major Teo Siok Har, who heads the service control section that handles these rations, said the army is trying to satisfy the taste buds of younger soldiers by offering them brands they eat "day in and day out". About two years ago, it introduced pasta with mushroom,...

Howie Carr was discussing the fact that Kraft is in the process of changing OREO cookies, I could not believe it; they are releasing it this fall. They are going to remove trans fat from the recipe! There is only one thing, according to Kraft, the trans fat gives the cookie it's distinct flavor and firmness/texture. That's right folks, the very thing that makes Oreos, Oreos is being removed. Why? Well, I wrote a letter to Kraft and they told me in the following response from Kraft: From: Kraft - Online Team2 mailto: OnlineTeam2@Casupport.com Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:39...

The parents of blubbery, sugar-soaked children are perhaps fat themselves, deficient in governing their pie holes and those of their offspring. Hence, the federal government has issued new, and more stringent, healthful diet and exercise guidelines. Meanwhile, Kraft Foods, sensitive to the bitter taste of possible advertising censorship, pledges it won't promote many of its products on television, radio and in print on programs and in media targeted to children under 12. For example, Oreos, one of life's true pleasures, are off the ad list.

GOOD MORNING: Michael Moore met with Harvey Weinstein and Moore says they plan to start working -- now -- on "Fahrenheit 9/11½." "We want to get cameras rolling now and have it ready in two-three years," Moore says. "We want to document and commercialize it. Fifty-one percent of the American people lacked information (in this election) and we want to educate and enlighten them. They weren't told the truth. We're communicators and it's up to us to start doing it now. The official mourning period is over today and there is a silver lining -- George W. Bush is prohibited...

someone i know is at a trade show today and mr. M is there..... sounds like lardo is doing a documentary about how pharmaceutical companies waste so much money. Pfizer. being the main focus....... http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?s=f1bb151acd26d75cfe6a7085b8e42e39&threadid=251614&cache=24 funny discussion.

Here are some post-election comments from Michael F. Moore: THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when...

Dear Friends, If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact.

While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios matched the Kerry/Bush vote, and so did the optically-scanned paper ballots in the larger counties, in Florida's smaller counties the results from the optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - seem to have been reversed. In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in...

John McCain called Michael Moore a "disingenuous filmmaker" at the Republican National Covention. He did not know that Lard*ss was in the house. So, Lard*ss smiled, stood up, and gave the "L" for Loser sign. Today, the disingenuous filmmaker is in hiding. Have fun mocking him. He is one of the most disgusting human beings to ever be involved in the political process. Thanks to flashbunny for adding the appropriate word to the photo.

(2003-07-02) -- In an effort to blunt criticism about its use of hydrogenated oils, Kraft Foods today introduced a new product -- the Oreohibitor Transfat Cessation Patch. The patch, which a user simply twists open and sticks to the roof of his mouth, delivers a steady, but small, dose of transfat directly into the bloodstream. At first, the dosage is about two grams, only slightly less than the amount of transfat in three Oreo cookies. Gradually, the Oreohibitor patches administer lower doses, until the user is completely weaned from transfats. An unnamed Kraft spokesman said there's nothing wrong with Oreo...

<p>If you thought the real dangers to children's health were smoking, drugs or drunk driving, you are clearly old-fashioned. The new threat is from . . . Oreo cookies.</p> <p>That's the word from San Francisco -- of course -- where a local public interest lawyer has filed suit in Marin County superior court demanding that Nabisco be forced to cease-and-desist from selling America's favorite companion to milk. Stephen Joseph claims that the partially hydrogenated vegetable oil -- also known as trans fat -- used in both the cookie and the filling are simply too dangerous for children to eat. His suit comes in the wake of an Institute of Medicine report from last year that made the earth-shattering link between trans fat and cholesterol and heart disease.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco attorney wants to outlaw the sale of Oreo cookies to children -- because they contain something called trans fat. It's the trans fat that makes the cookie crisp and the cream filling creamy. And that's just the problem, according to lawyer Stephen Joseph. He sued last week in Marin County Superior Court after reading about the dangers of trans fat in newspaper stories. The suit asks the court to order Kraft Foods, the parent of cookie maker Nabisco, to stop selling Oreos to California's children because they are made with the fat. The fat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kids in California may have to give up their Oreos, if a lawsuit filed by a San Francisco public interest lawyer is successful. The lawsuit, filed last week in Marin County superior court, seeks a ban on the black and white cookies, arguing the trans fats that make the filling creamy and the cookie crisp are too dangerous for children to eat. Stephen Joseph said he filed the suit against Nabisco, the maker of Oreos, after reading articles that said the artificial fat is hidden in most packaged food, though consumers have no way of knowing. The...

<p>Oreo cookies should be banned from sale to children in California, according to a lawsuit filed by a San Francisco attorney who claims that trans fat -- the stuff that makes the chocolate cookies crisp and their filling creamy -- is so dangerous children shouldn't eat it.</p>

<p>Oreo cookies should be banned from sale to children in California, according to a lawsuit filed by a San Francisco attorney who claims that trans fat -- the stuff that makes the chocolate cookies crisp and their filling creamy -- is so dangerous children shouldn't eat it.</p>