TIL Oreos are over 100 years old and are a knock off of a cookie called Hydrox, which itself suffered from the impression that it was a knock off of Oreo and fell into obscurity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo



Submitted March 14, 2015 at 08:52PM by nerbovig http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2z0x2g/til_oreos_are_over_100_years_old_and_are_a_knock/