Oreo, Cookie or Other Classification?

Question

So I was having a discussion with a friend of mine about weather or not Oreo’s should be classified as cookies or something else. This is the same with the Fig Newton. On the packaging it states that both are cookies but what do you think. Should Oreo’s and Fig Newton’s be classified as something else.

Answer 1

Fig Newtons are imposters and not cookies at all. They are disgusting fruit with a cake-like coating. They should be classified with the cakes. (I did sneak them into my toddlers diet until he was old enough to know what they were) They are nutritious after all. Which is another reason they are not cookies.

Oreos are a bit of a hybrid. They are the queens of sandwich cookies. But as sandwiches, they are not nutritious at all.

If ever it comes to classsifying food according to its caffeine content, or otherwise generating energy or causing insomnia, then Oreos would have to be classified with coffee.

For now, it is best to be quiet and let these edibles eek out their own place in this world. The simple Lorna Doone has found her own place in this world, unchallenged and still maintaining her understated elegance. Now that's some cookie.

And thank you so much for your question. It is the most light-hearted question I've read in a while. Good for the heart.

Answer 2

Oreo is definately classified as a cookie I would say and the Fig Newton is a little crunchier than a sponge so it would be classified as a cookie too. I think they are both in the right classification.

Some facts:

Fig Newtons were first produced in 1891 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Nabisco. The wanted to make a cake-like cookie. Since it was made in a biscuit factory that says it all.

Oreo was officially registered in 1913 as "Oreo Biscuit." Oreo. Oreo is tradmark name...for a cookie composed of two thin chocolate cookies enclosing a white creme filling.

Answer 3

A cookie is defined as a small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough. This would technically make an Oreo two cookies with cream in the middle. A Fig Newton does not seem to fit this definition well, and would probably be better classified as a fruit snack.

Answer 4

Oreos are definitely cookies, but I'd specify "sandwich cookie," since ordinary cookies are quite a bit different. "Cookie" makes me think of chocolate chip or something like that.

Fig Newtons, though...that's a whole other discussion. I know it says cookie on the package, and they're in the cookie aisle at the supermarket, but I see them as more of a fruit bar or maybe snack cake. They even had those commercials in the 80s, "It's not a cookie, it's a Newton!," remember?

Answer 5

Oreo's are sandwich cookies. So that was easy. But Fig Newtons are mor of a fruit roll or a pastry in my book. Sort of like a nut roll without the nuts. (I hate fig newtons by the way)

Answer 6

Oreo's are sandwiched cookies like a linzer cookie
Fig Newtowns are not cookies more along the lines of a cereal/granola bar chopped up

Answer 7

Nah, why change what we're used to?