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<p>Hmm. I knew there was a reason I can’t eat just one.:)</p>
<p>I used to eat an entire column in one sitting. Oreos were a major food group for me growing up. Don’t touch them now. Cold turkey is the only way to get the monkey off your back.</p>
<p>I laughed when I saw that story because we just bought a package of Oreos for the first time in many years. Without reading the article, let me say that the notion of Oreos actually being as addictive as drugs (which drugs? perhaps as addictive as aspirin, but not heroin) is complete bs, right?</p>
<p>I cant think of any packaged cookie that would be on my top ten list of addicting foods & Oreos wouldn’t even make my top 100.
If I liked Crisco & sugar mixed together maybe.
Rice cakes are good with almond butter.</p>
<p>I’m with you, EK! Not a fan of Oreos and have never been. I would run towards the rice cakes, especially if there was some Nutella smeared on them. ;)</p>
<p>Oreos were D2’s favorite cookies as a toddler (I know, we were bad parents). The only problem was the sugar didn’t agree with her. I used to have to tell her that she couldn’t have it very often because her tummy would hurt. I remember taking her to a grocery store once, she was sitting on the push carte, we went by the oreo shelf and she said, “No, no, no cookies.” But the longing in her eyes was heart breaking.</p>
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<p>Not personally. Then again, I don’t have much of a sweet tooth and find eating more than a few oreos caused a feeling of eating sugar blocks. No thank you. And when I do have oreos…I tend to prefer having them with milk or better yet, black coffee. </p>
<p>I can’t understand why my roommate loves really supersweet ice cream flavors like caramel swirl. </p>
<p>To me, that’s so sweet that for one containerful worth of it, one will need to mix the same exact amount of unsweetened vanilla ice cream to make it acceptable to my palate.</p>
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<p>I’d add any type of meat, salted snack*, and in my case…Cuban/Spanish style rice & beans…with or without Cuban style pork. :)</p>
<p>The book Gulp describes the process. They essentially balance sweetness and saltiness to find a taste point - fat, it turns out, has no satiation point so they can put in loads. The essence is they make it addictive by reducing the satisfaction level to a point where you get just enough to need more to complete the feeling and not enough that you are satisfied. In the blunted terms, they take out flavor because flavor satisfies - a reason why people in poorer countries eat spicier foods - so we are essentially fed relatively bland food that is highly salted and sweetened. Another aspect is the means of application. The essence of doritos “nacho” flavor is they grind the additive very, very fine so it’s like dust. That dust gets into each imperfection on the chip or whatever surface and also comes off in your mouth - and on your finger. It’s pretty similar to how they formulate dry cat food, which is also relatively tasteless until treated with a coating (which is sometimes called cat crack).</p>
<p>Consider the old days. Milton Hershey tried chocolate recipes until he found the one he liked. It’s a weird flavor compared to European chocolate - somewhat burnt and sour - but it’s uniquely Hershey’s and his confidence in his own taste meant that Hershey’s for generations did not have an advertising department. Even Coke was developed to fit a person’s taste. It wasn’t then adjusted down to reduce satisfaction.</p>
<p>Not oreos for me, but definitely am addicted to sugar/fat right now. There are times when I can break free, but right now does not seem to be one of them.</p>
<p>Wow, I was also thinking Cheetos go in this category! We actually had to stop buying them when our normally well behaved (first born, second one made up for it…) D started lying and stealing them at the age of five. I have never purchased Cheetos again… I will have to tell her it is not her fault. :)</p>
<p>And I wasn’t really thinking they shouldn’t test this on rats – merely that they do not need a rat, that I would be an equally addicted subject in a maze searching for Oreos (and would also eat the inside first, just as the rats did).</p>
<p>Regarding Cheeze-Its – can I confess that one reason I love to fly Southwest is because they sometimes serve Cheese Nips as the snack instead of just peanuts? I know, there is a difference between a Cheeze It and a Cheese Nip, but it is not a huge gap.</p>