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The Oreo's Impact On The World

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The Oreo was manufactured by the National Biscuit Company. It was created in Chelsea, Manhattan and was first sold on March 6, 1912. The wonderfilled Oreo cookie has been around since 1912 it has gone through a lot of major changes they have got new recipes as well as new packaging. The Oreo is actually considered a flavor for ice cream, cereal, and much more. In the past century they have become to be one of the most popular cookies in the world. The oreo was named the #1 cookie in america in the 20th and 21st century. The Oreo is sold in more than one-hundred different countries. Different parts of the Oreo can be traced through every threshold and the ingredients that make the oreo have made a major impact on the world we know today. Oreo’s …show more content…

Over thousands of years humans had enough collective learning to be able to farm. Farming is very important in the history of humans. Farming made it easier to make food, humans did not have to forage for food. Farming lead to a big population increase. Oreo´s are connected to agriculture through the chemicals that are in Oreo´s. The crops such as the Cocoa bean, the cocoa bean is very important in the creation of the oreo. The cocoa bean has been around since 1000 BC and was the currency in mesoamerica. It is believed that the Olmec, or the Maya cultivated the cacao bean. Christopher Columbus was thought to be the first person to bring cocoa beans to Europe in 1502. In the 1700’s the cocoa industry bloomed, various machines making it easier to ground cocoa. Cocoa is a very important part in the oreo cookie. 500 years ago the world we know started to form. The world started to get from many different cultures in four world zones to all the world zones linked. Christopher Columbus went to america in 1492 and started the Columbian Exchange cocoa was imported from the …show more content…

The first cake like cookie was made in the 7th century A.D in Persia, in modern day Iran, and the first cookie was made to test out what the oven temperature the cake should be cooked at. So the first cookie was a test cake. The name cookie is from the Dutch word “koekje” which means “small or little cake”. In the 1620’s the cookie was introduced to the Americas by the Dutch. In 1908 the Hydrox, the original chocolate sandwich cookie was introduced. The Hydrox came 4 years before the first Oreo was sold. The Hydrox was made by the Sunshine Biscuits Company. The sunshine biscuits company was bought out by Keebler in 1996, Keebler was created by Godfrey Keebler, and in the present day it is the largest cookie company in America. Keebler stopped making the Hydrox in 2008 because the Oreo cookie got more popular. Nabisco does not know how the name Oreo came to be. They think that it might come from “or” which is French for gold. Another theory is that they took “re” from the word cream and put in in between the o’s in the word chocolate. Some people think it just because the word oreo is easy to

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