Tonight's episode in the "Still More Stuff That Has Not Been MOABed Show" is brought to you be the letter "O", and that subject is....

OREOS

Why is the chocolate cookie part of an Oreo is so damned hard? I don't mean "why" in the sense of "What makes them that way?" I suppose that's determined by the amount of shortening or something in the recipe. I mean "why" in the sense of "What friggin' idiot decided to make the damned things hard enough to break teeth?" More importantly, why have other cookie makers chosen to follow Oreo's lead and make their own chocolate cream sandwich cookies hard as rocks as well?

Try this. Go to the grocery store and buy a package of store-brand "assorted" sandwich cream cookies. "Assorted" means that you get some chocolate ones and some vanilla ones. Bite into one of each and you will find that the chocolate cookies are invariably much harder than the vanilla ones. Why? Where is it written that "Vanilla sandwich cookies shall be soft yet chocolate ones shall be hard."? Personally, I would be grateful for a chocolate sandwich cookie that can be eaten without causing dental trauma.