The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1196225]

I don't know if you heard, Hydrox are coming back, but don't let that influence your vote.

Comments

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

Hydrox never went away. You just had to know where to look. Being that they're kosher they're readily available in larger Jewish communities.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Uhhhh, no.

"Many Hydrox eaters initially thought their cookie had just become more difficult to find, learning only much later that the cookie had been discontinued."

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I can't argue with that. But that means I'm going to have to take a closer look at the cookies they're serving at Sweet Tomatoes. They are specifically labeled as crumbled Hydrox cookies. I wouldn't put it past them to be lying but wow that's pretty sleazy if it is.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

If they are actual Hydrox cookies, they have been sitting in storage since 2003. Bleah.

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

I thought they just changed the name to "Droxies?"

Either way, they suck.

-=ShoEboX=-

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Archway!

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

You know why Hydrox went out of production? Because they're not very good.

Trader Joes' oreo knockoffs are better than the real thing.

[ericcoleman]

How cute

No, you just don't like them. I know that this is a difficult thing to understand, but just because you don't like something, doesn't make it bad.

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll give you that (I think they're way too sweet myself). But the fact that they can't compete with Oreos suggests that I'm in the majority.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Trader Joe's cookies are formulated to be really delicious. Not being of the Mega-Corporation, they have the freedom to do that if they want to.

[erik]

I do not have an opinion in re: freedom to do what they want.
But not a megacorp? Dost thou shittest me?

Trader Joe's is part of Aldi. Aldi group is moderately big in the US, and huge in Germany....

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I knew nothing of this. Thank you for the link.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Hydrox were around four years earlier than Oreo. I liked them because they were usually cheeper.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

As has been pointed out, Oreos started as a Hydrox rip-off. They managed to stay around as long as they did, in part, because they were kosher and Oreos weren't. Once Oreo announced they were kosher, it sort of sounded the Hydrox death knell. By the time they were phased out in 2003, they were called Droxies.

Comedian Gary Gulman has a wonderful bit in which he states, "You know what their name should be? 'Hydrox by mistake.' Because that's the only time your mom brought them home. 'Oh, I got Hydrox by mistake, I'm so sorry.'." and asks "You're going to take on Oreo by going after that group of people, Ultra Orthodox Jews who eat sandwich cream cookies? That demographic? Four hundred strong and shrinking? As more and more Orthodox Jews convert just for the chocolate Oreos?"

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

And here I'd figure it would be a Mel Blanc question in honor of his 100th birthday today.

[ericcoleman]

I think it has been established ... I have a calendar, but I rarely use it. But ... since you mentioned it ...

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

I've always liked the creme in Hydrox better :)