It’s Oreo’s 100th birthday

Its the 100th birthday of the tasty cookie known as Oreo!  Kraft Foods, owners of Oreo, sent out some fun facts about the cookie.  Find out more at the facebook page.

Oreo fun facts:

100th Birthday: March 6, 2012

• Birth year: 1912 — the same year the South Pole was discovered, and the Titanic sank.

• First sale: The first Oreo cookie was sold in Hoboken, NJ, where Oreo was originally packaged in bulk tins and sold by weight. Back then, grocers paid USD $0.30 cents/lb for Oreo.

• Namesakes: Oreo has a street named after it – Oreo Way – formerly known as West 15th Street between 9th & 10 Avenues in New York City where the first Oreo cookie was made at the original Nabisco bakery.

• Design: The first Oreo cookie was embossed with a thin wreath on the outer edge, with the Oreo name on the plain surface in the middle.

• Sales: Oreo is the world’s favorite cookie and the best-selling cookie brand of the 21st century, with $2 billion in global annual revenues. Kraft Foods is the proud custodian of Oreo, and Oreo is one of the company’s 12 “billion-dollar” brands.