The Oreo cookie made its first debut in 1912. It was originally called the “Oreo Biscuit” and produced by the National Biscuit Company, today this company is known world-wide as Nabisco. Over the years Nabisco’s Oreo cookie has become the best- selling cookie in the United States.
No one really knows how the cookie got its name. Some say its name could have been derived from the French word “Or” meaning gold. Gold was the original packaging of Oreos. Others think the name came from the combination “re” from cream and sandwiched it between the two “O” s in the word “chocolate, ” which would spell “o-re-o.” No matter how the cookie got its name one thing is for sure everyone loves them.
