The cookie that sounded like a rocket fuel is no more:

"...for those of you who say, 'Get over it, it's only a cookie,' you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox."

I never liked either of them that much, myself. But when I ate them, I ate them. I didn't lick the filling off.

"I didn't like the filling off."

Whoops.

It was supposed to be "like licking the filling off." I think.

I am an Oreo man myself. Oreos have been much improved over the years. But it's too bad about Hydrox. Competition is always good.

Hydrox were always too sweet. Oreo's got a nice austere bitter cocoa taste in the wafers to offset the complete sugar napalm of the filling. If I could get them, I'd buy unfilled Oreos.

By the way, did anyone ever _try_ using Hydrox cookies as rocket fuel? Something with that much sugar and fat in it would make a pretty good fuel if you mixed in an oxidizer.

It took that guy more than four years to discover they weren't been made anymore. He couldn't have been a very big fan.

Now that would depend upon just what the inventory situation was at said trufan's local market, Paul. Hydrox, like most commercially baked cookies (and Twinkies, for that matter) have enough preservatives to yield a shelf life measurable in decades. Good for the old disaster stash, y'know.

Now that would depend upon just what the inventory situation was at said trufan's local market, Paul.

I doubt the inventory was very large. Supermarket retailing is a cutthroat business, with thin profit margins, and retailers cannot afford the cost of carrying inventories with low turnover rates.

"By the way, did anyone ever _try_ using Hydrox cookies as rocket fuel? Something with that much sugar and fat in it would make a pretty good fuel if you mixed in an oxidizer."

It's been done with Oreo filling:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/600152d7d441b010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

This Hydrox / Oreo thing sounds a great deal like the Coke / Pepsi thing.

Civil wars have started over such weighty issues.

Personally, I really go for the white fudge-covered oreos--too bad they're only sold around Christmas, and practically cost their weight in gold.

As a child in the South I often got Hydrox (and other Sunshine products) at school. Like most people I thought that Hydrox was the cheap knockoff and that it sounded like a laundry detergent. "Droxies" sounded suspiciously like doxies (and I don't mean dachshunds).

Oreo's got a nice austere bitter cocoa taste in the wafers to offset the complete sugar napalm of the filling. If I could get them, I'd buy unfilled Oreos.

You can find them on the baking aisle (in the form of pie shells or cookie crumbs, rather than whole cookies).

If you're an experimental type, you can try reverse-engineering them. The black cocoa you'll need can be mail ordered from kingarthurflour.com.

I leaned toward Oreos myself (especially Double Stuf), until Hydrox came out with the flavored fillings, and I found that a little variety was a good thing.

Now that Hydroxies are gone, Oreo has gone for variety too -- but they just can't do it the simple way. Now if I want to buy sandwich cookies with different-flavored filling I get the store brand.

Hypothetically speaking, that is. In a few weeks I mark one year as a diagnosed Type-2 patient...

I always thought Hydrox was the store brand. Oh wellz, one last manifestation of high fructose corn syrup to tempt our souls.

I loved Hydrox, growing up outside Boston (in the land of tonic instead of pop or soda), and it was a civil war thing, you're right. I was on the Coke side of that battle, by the way.

I moved to Minnesota 30 years ago this fall, and being off snacks for a few years, I never looked for Hydrox, but always just knew that they were better. I found that the vending machine Oreo packs tasted more like Hydrox, but when I had a child, I couldn't find the good stuff, so she could compare for herself. Mom was a Pepsi girl who came over to the dark side with me, and our daughter doesn't care whether she drinks Coke or Pepsi. Oh well, you try to raise them right...