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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: Double Stuf Oreos May Not Actually Be Doubly Stuf'ed; Only 1.86 Times Stuf
Team of high school math students makes national news for measuring sandwich cookies(actual calculations)
Remember earlier this year when we found out that Subway's foot-long sandwiches were not always a foot long? Then Subway said it was just a name and a metric that they "strive for." People were furious, never ate at Subway again, and they went out of business.
No actually we kept eating tons of Subway, even though they treat us poorly, because we don't know what else to do. But Nabisco does seem concerned that new data will shake the foundation of the good Oreo name. A spokesperson told ABC News, "I can confirm for you that our recipe for the Oreo Double Stuf Cookie has double the Stuf, or creme filling, when compared with our base, or original Oreo cookie."
Can she, though?
Read More: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/breaking-double-stuf-oreos-may-not-actually-be-doubly-stufed-only-186-times-stuf/278890/
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Breaking: Double Stuf Oreos May Not Actually Be Doubly Stuf'ed; Only 1.86 Times Stuf (Original Post)
Robb
Aug 2013
OP
Which they'll solve simply by cutting ~7% from the originals. Everybody HAPPY NOW?
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2013
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. Take your anti-American fuzzy math and propaganda elsewhere, hippie...
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)2. I'd like to see some statistics here
without error bars and SD calculations I'm not convinced but I am shining up my pitchfork and tarring up the torch for a march on the Nabisco head office if the math holds up.
Robb
(39,665 posts)3. I'll drive. nt
sarisataka
(18,633 posts)4. A riot is an ungly thing...
undt, I tink, that it is chust about time zat ve had vun!!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)5. Which they'll solve simply by cutting ~7% from the originals. Everybody HAPPY NOW?
Next time let's all just shut up and eat our stuff, OK?
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)6. Goddamnit.
What's left to believe in?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)8. I'm sure the Nabisco CEO is doubly-stuf'ed though...
Be that physically, or monetarily.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)9. and this is political news?
just kidding...it is kind of humorous and yes, it is political news because it once again a corporation getting away with lying to the consumer.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)10. Don't like 'em
regular Oreos for me