Red Velvet Oreos

Just stumbled across a post at The Verge about Red Velvet Oreos and why they are probably fake. I had actually suggest Red Velvet Oreos to Nabisco through Twitter as early as September 2012, and maybe even earlier than that via e-mail to them.

I have to say that I'm not too sure about the reasoning The Verge uses to claim these are fake items. For one, they say they couldn't be real because Oreos only use chocolate or golden cookies. But there used to be a time when they only used chocolate and then later the golden vanilla ones came along. So there's precedent for new cookies flavors getting introduced. Of course, there was also a time when there was only one Oreo product, period. And Double Stuf was the first innovation.

The Verge also says that Red Velvet Oreos are fake because a Facebook group claims it was just for a school project. But none of the pictures shown at that Facebook group match the image shown in the Verge article. Odd...

And as far as the package size goes, I wouldn't say that's a deal-breaker by any means. If someone was purposely faking it it seems like they would go to extra lengths to match existing package sizes.

Now, none of these things mean Red Velvet Oreos are real. I'm just saying that The Verge's reasoning that they are definitely fake is not totally impeccable. I will also conclude this post by pointing to this Tweet.

UPDATE: The Verge has updated their piece to say it might not be fake.