Hydrox was certified kosher long before Oreo. But Oreos are dominating — some say unfairly — the sandwich cookie game. (JTA) — You know what Oreos are. They’re two delicious chocolate ...

There are plenty of origin stories, from the French word for “gold” like the color of the original Oreo packaging to Oreodaphne, the genus of laurel found on the hydrox cookies Oreos were ...

The OREO cookie came to be in 1912 as Nabisco's answer to Sunshine's Hydrox cookie. Both became American icons, and perhaps ...