Oreo Is a Knockoff đȘ
Morning OREO!
I donât want to, uh..
âŠdestroy your life or anything.
ButâŠ
OREOs â the cream filled cookie?
Ya theyâre a knockoff of the original.
Swear to God.
It was 1895.
These brothers â Joseph and Jacob Loose â are running their own bakery.
Joseph loves their single bakery.
Jacob wants lots more.
So Jacob bands together 35 American bakers to create the American Biscuit & Manufacturing Company:
Sick branding btw:
Little problem with this new conglomerate, though:
So Joseph merges their American Biscuit Company with 2 more competitors and creates the National Biscuit Company (aka Nabisco) â the largest bakery company in America:
Clearly these 2 brothers couldnât agree on anything.
So Jacob Loose leaves Nabisco and starts his own biscuit company: Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company.
And every new biscuit company needs a cookie!
So Jacob invents ~Hydrox~, a cream-filled chocolate cookie sandwich:
The cookie was a MASSIVE success.
Just look at these sick ads:
But 4 years later, smelling Jacobâs success, Joseph and Nabisco create a Hydrox copycat: The OREO â a cream-filled chocolate cookie sandwichâŠ
And check out how the Hydrox ads start changing lol
âDonât be fooled by LOOK-ALIKES!â
âNo wonder â itâs the ORIGINAL cream-filled chocolate cookieâ
And youâve got OREO fighting for their life:
But hardly anybody switched over to OREOs.
The public was used to Hydrox and didnât trust this new OREO copycat.
But then cleaning products started naming their cleaning stuff Hydrox too:
Distilled battery water lol.
So that was kind of a death sentence for Hydrox cookies.
And today, OREO sells 60 billion cookies per year.
Stay Cute,
Henry & Dylan đ
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