Steve Sloan II wrote:
>
> Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> > Haven't got a clue as to what Oreo is.
>
> Oreos are a brand of round chocolate sandwich cookies with
> white creamy stuff (mostly lard, I think) in the middle.
> Hydrox is another brand that makes a similar kind of cookie.
No lard. Oreo dropped the lard sometime when I was in college, IIRC.
(Due to sensitivities to lard, my mother and I both learned to read
labels. I think Nabisco dropped lard across the board, but I'm still
careful to read the labels to be sure if it's a product I haven't eaten
before.) I think they're using all vegetable fat for it now, but I
don't have a package handy to confirm.
Hydrox, to the best of my knowledge, never had the lard, so among other
benefits, it was kosher all along. :) I remember at one point when I
was in high school seeing such labelling on packages of Hydrox. (And if
you have a sensitivity to lard, looking for product labels that indicate
the product is kosher may save you a reading of that really fine print
they use for ingredient lists.)
Julia
who is pretty sure nobody wants to hear about the last time she
inadvertantly ate pig fat :P
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