#candy corn oreos

The Oreo craze has been capturing cookie fans everywhere with limited edition flavors such as Watermelon, Ice Cream, Birthday Cake, Gingerbread, Banana Split, and even Creamsicle. There is one flavor in particular that sells out the fastest and stands out from the rest, the Candy Corn Oreo. This Halloween season Nabisco has rereleased their limited edition Candy Corn flavored Oreos in hopes to satisfy all the Oreo addicted fans once again. Since I didn't get to try these popular cookies last year, I decided to buy a package just to see what all the hype was about. I happened to purchase these almost a month before Halloween at my local Target. As I expected there was a mad rush for these Oreos and Target has been sold out for the last couple of weeks. I'm glad I grabbed these when I had the chance. Now for the big question, do they really taste like candy corn?

When I opened the package and looked at the Oreo I was impressed with the accuracy of color for the filling. The orange is more vivid than the traditional Halloween Oreo filling which gives the cookie a more authentic feel. Instead of chocolate cookie pieces, golden vanilla cookie pieces are used to represent the white color of the candy corn. Now that we have analyzed the appearance, what about the smell & taste? Do these limited edition Oreos really live up to the name? 

Here is exactly what came to mind when I was about to take a bite. 

   No Joke, if you've ever smelled the Yankee Candle Christmas Cookie you will know what I'm talking about. The smell is almost identical and how they got that into a cookie? A mystery... Way to go Nabisco, you have created an air freshener! 

As for the taste, an overly sweet cookie guaranteed to put you into a state of diabetic shock. By the end of my cookie eating experience I failed to taste anything remotely close to candy corn. I have to admit I was slightly disappointed especially since I'm a fan of candy corn. Not sure if the flavor has changed from last year to this year, but it certainly fails to reach its flavoring potential. The Vanilla flavored Oreos from the past taste the closest only these are much sweeter. 

Overall: Personally I would much rather use these cookies as an air freshener around the house. They are much too sweet for my taste, but regardless I'm glad I got to try them. 

These Oreos are so popular that CNN even did a story on them. If anything Nabisco sure does know how to captivate their audience and make a killing in sales. 

Here's what CNN had to say:

Happy Oreo Hunting! 

Me: "I'm going to hand out those special edition candy corn Oreos. Like, here, kids! Have some diabetes!"

H: "You can't hand out unsealed treats! It could be poison!"

Me: "Well can I hand out candy that looks like meth?"

Candy Corn Oreos

Like the Candy Corn M&Ms, this is a flavor that is bound only by your ability to reason and imagine. If you ate the entire bag wearing a blindfold, I could tell you the flavor was "birthday" or "cloud" or "angel's placenta" and you'd be forced by your own tongue to believe me.

We are having a great time in this scenario... folding card table, shitty desk lamp, and you in a blindfold, overeating.

Honeycomb Cereal

Coffee

I mention the coffee because it's some kind of unpredictable coconut palm tree flavor that is really good on its own, but tastes like a Yankee Candle when you use it to clear your bulging throat of enlarged honey sweet corn.

Neapolitan Pizza

BBQ Chicken Pizza

Usually this would be happening because the pizzeria is on my way to the gym, but today is about pure experience. Eating an entire pack of Oreos, finishing off a monolith box of cereal, and jamming pizza strictly for the purpose of being saturated with pizza. Never stronger, never better.

Pear Pie

Made by my girlfriend from pears she grew!! FARM TO TABLE, DUDE. FTT. 

BBQ Chicken

Spare Ribs

Green Beans with Pine Nuts and Pancetta

Cole Slaw

This is a meal you might even see yourself or your family eating, but I made sure the table was quivering under the weight of the barbecue sauce on my plate. 

There was some discussion about the purpose of pine nuts. I wouldn't think such a buttery, greasy little speck of textural supremacy needed a reason to stop by, but hey... Pignoli Weekend. Let me register that tumblr.

Half a Trader Joe's chocolate croissant

Cider Donut

Peanut Butter Brownie

PEAR PIE

By now, most of my family and friends are familiar with my faith and practices and do not appear alarmed or surprised when an entire Cookie Puss proceeds visibly down my esophagus, so it's kind of refreshing to belly up to a table with the uninitiated and see how distracted they can be by all my many snacks and priorities.

Woodchuck Pumpkin Cider

I always want to like the Woodchuck cider because I like the woodchuck animal, but this is kind of like chugging straight syrup.

I might stir the many leftover bottles into a suicide drink next weekend. Pumpkin cider, Jim Beam's Ghost, and some Tic-Tacs I know I'll never get around to eating. Stop by if you're thirsty!

True North Chocolate Nut Clusters

Who knew Best Buy sold endocrine-annihilating servings of SNACKS? These have all the markings of a healthy fuel source for people that conquer well groomed mountain trails wearing open-toed Merrell shoes, but they are certainly just chunks of full-on candy bar sold by the pound. I couldn't be more pleased.

Moe's mega nachos with ground beef and so much queso

A solid FRIEND moved back into town recently and we both have jobs and obligations and lives that keep us from wailing on guitars and reading comic books like grown men... so we decided to force the issue and choke down some counterfeit mexisludge as late as they'd let us.

I know I say things like this a lot, but I was feeling the kind of full that your bones and ancestors and descendants will remember. Like even my ears and scalp ached. 

Rogue Farms pumpkin beer

I only bought this for the wonderful orange bottle.

I only drank this because I was still awake.

I only woke up at 2 AM because pouring a liter of holiday beer over 3 lbs of queso sauce makes you into an actual Hindenburg. In the bad way.

Hours later, I encountered this context-free burning barrel display at Lowes which strangely wasn't anywhere near the fingerless glove or Thunderbird pint aisles. 

Z.o.m.g. it’s that time of year again. Where you buy super special oreos at exclusive stores and then eat them alone in a corner and then wake up in your own spit puddle with eye-crust-crystals the size of pacific ocean sea salt. The classic oreo experience, no? Well, this is next level limited edition classic…this is CANDY CORN OREOS. The confounding complexity of this product demands and deserves a two part post…so this is not the last you will hear from us about these german engineered/ don draper ad campaigned/ americana wet dream/ and an out of your right mind culinary experience.

 Let me begin with the entire premise of this machine made beauty. A soggy brain, somewhere in america, accidentally fires an electrical charge across two pink weeny sized synapses and thus joins the two concepts of “candy corn” and “marketing ploy”. On the 7th day, this brain dies from cardiac arrest.

It’s hard to say which side made out better through this sugar cane arranged marriage—but I kindahave to say…it gives candy corn the creditability it lacks as a food, and oreos a trashy, late night, coke off the bathroom floor kind of playfulness it usually cant indulge in while having to be the classic black and white cookie america expects. A true win win for both corporations…but what about YOUR MOUTH?

Crack open that head slit you call a mouth, stick your tongue out, and say AAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN. If the pooling spit starts to spill over your bottom lip, then you have salivated for the proper amount of time and can now place a Candy Corn Oreo into your weeping buccal cavity.

To be continued…