The S'mores Oreo is a basic idea at its core. It is an Oreo that is supposed to resemble a smore. It has graham flavored cookies, a layer of chocolate stuf, and a layer of marshmallow stuf. Although it's a basic idea, depending on how it is implemented by Nabisco can have stupendous and monumental effect on its enjoyment factor. It truly comes down to how well Nabisco can recreate the smore in Oreo form. Before discussing the taste of the S’mores Oreos, knowing additional information will help give background into the importance of this Oreo.
The S'mores Oreo was originally released in the summer of 2015 as a limited edition Oreo. These Oreos evaporated off the shelves; they were a thriving success. Why did Nabisco not support the desires of their customers by making Smores Oreos a full-time Oreo or at least a yearly limited edition Oreo similar to the Winter Oreo and Halloween Oreo? Luckily, Nabisco finally heard the outcry for Smores Oreos to be brought back. In April of 2019, Nabisco released S'mores Oreos again as a limited edition item.
The S'mores Oreo follows the classic Oreo naming convention. It has the flavor of the Oreo before the word "Oreo." Nabisco might have missed an opportunity to call this version of the Oreo by a different name: "Smoreos." Either the idea was not thought of by Nabisco or they decided to take the safe route and stick to their classic Oreo naming convention. This decision was originally made when the S'mores Oreo was released in 2015; they are just reusing the same name now as it is rereleased.
Oreos are notorious for being a dessert food, but most people that eat Oreos will ignore the serving size listed on the box and eat many Oreos because of how addictive they can be. S'mores Oreos have a serving size of two cookies and have 140 calories per serving; that is 70 calories a cookie. This is most comparable to a double stuf Oreo that also have a serving size of two cookies and have 140 calories per serving.
Smores have been a camping food favorite since 1927 when Loretta Scott Crew introduced the recipe for “some mores” in “Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.”* Why should people be limited to eating smores when they are camping or have a bonfire though? The average person does not go camping very often, and the majority of society does not have a bonfire pit in their backyard; this results in the lack of consumption of smores, not for the lack of desire, but for the lack of capability.
This is where Oreo comes in. They can help fill a void, the smores void. Although most people do not have the ability to make smores on their own, they do go to the grocery store for food on a regular basis. Oreos can easily be bought while at the store. If Nabisco can create an Oreo that can represent the essence of a smore, it can fill the smore void the average person has.
Oreos have always been known to have more than one way to eat them. Some people like to eat them straight from the box. Dunking Oreos into a glass of milk is a classic Oreo consumption method that will soften the cookies. Others like to twist Oreos to eat the stuf out first or to eat the cookies first. Given the S’mores Oreo is a specialty Oreo with more than one layer of different flavored stuf, there are even more consumption methods than usual.
Depending on what your favorite flavor in between the two stufs will change how the S’mores Oreo should be eaten. The favorite flavor should be the bottom layer when taking a bite; this will make that flavor have a stronger and more prominent impact on the flavor because it is closer to the tongue which does the tasting.
Being a twist Oreo eater makes eating S’mores Oreos a bit challenging, so be prepared to put if some effort. Twisting them can result in either the chocolate layer of stuf being exposed of the marshmallow layer of stuf being exposed. If someone is a larger fan of one of the stuf flavors more than the other, having a knife can be a useful tool for eating S’mores Oreos. The knife can be used to pop off one of the cookies from the two layers of stuf. It is possible to split a S’mores Oreo right down the middle to have a cookie with chocolate stuf and a cookie with marshmallow stuf; this can be accomplished by using a sharp knife and cutting down the middle, but this can be quite challenging to successfully complete. If it is desirable, after doing this method twice, a person can have a double chocolate Oreo or double marshmallow Oreo with graham cookies.
Experience of the S’mores Oreos
When the S’mores Oreo package is open, a familiar smell floats directly to a person’s nose. It is not an intrusive, powerful smell, but it is definitely noticeable. The smell mentally brings people to a campsite where they are enjoying themselves cooking marshmallows by a bonfire, slowly rotating their marshmallow on a stick only a few inches away from the fire blaze; they squeeze the marshmallow off the stick in between the the two graham crackers and chocolate. All this floods into a person’s mind when smelling the S’mores Oreos.
The S’mores Oreos look exactly like a smore in Oreo form. The color of the graham cookie is slightly paler than the typical graham cracker that would be used to construct a smore. The two different layers of stuf, chocolate and marshmallow, are thin; each layer of stuf is comparable to the amount of stuf on the original Oreo. With the two layers put together in between the graham cookies, the total amount of stuf is comparable to a double suf.
Does the S’mores Oreo actually taste like a smore? The answer is an unequivocal yes. It tastes exactly like a smore. It is impressive how well Nabisco was able to replicate the taste of a smore. In fact, it improves upon a smore experience in some aspects.
A roasted marshmallow in a smore is extraordinarily sticky and leaves a person’s mouth sticky after eating a smore; the S’mores Oreo does not. Although the S’mores Oreo is not sticky like its counterpart, the layer of marshmallow stuf does not only taste like a marshmallow, it tastes exactly like a roasted marshmallow from a bonfire. It even has a similar texture once tasting it.
Not only was the marshmallow improved upon, but chocolate too. When making a normal smore, the chocolate usually melts some from combined heat from the bonfire and the heat from the marshmallow that is pressed up against it. By the chocolate being melty, it takes away the crunch that a usual chocolate bar has. A smore does not need crunch from the chocolate; the crunch already comes from the graham cracker. Since the chocolate is melty though, it will drip all over people’s fingers, hands, and possibly onto their shoes as well.
The S’mores Oreo does not have this issue. The S’mores Oreo is not intended to be heated, so no part of it is melty and will not drip onto anything, but the chocolate stuf layer is still a similar consistency as melty chocolate on a regular smore because stuf in general is soft and not crunchy. It also has the classic chocolate taste that is expected on a smore.
Last but certainly not least, the graham cracker was also improved. The graham cracker is the most important part of a smore; it is the delivery system for the other two ingredients. The taste of a graham cracker is perfectly replicated in the graham cookie; however, ever since the smores inception back in 1927, there has been room for evolution of the graham cracker component of a smore due to a major issues.
The first issue is the fact the rectangular shape proves to not be compatible with the marshmallow and chocolate because they never are large enough to fill all the space on the inside surface area of the graham crackers; this leads to taking bites from the smore and only receiving graham cracker without the other two ingredients. The second issue is the graham cracker is too crumbly and fragile; one bite can break both graham crackers resulting in the structural integrity of the smore being completely ravaged. As the saying goes, “if your smore falls apart, it ruins your whole day.”
The S’mores Oreo does not have either of these issues. Oreos have always had a circular cookie (with exception to special limited edition Oreos such as the Easter Oreo and Football Oreo introduced in 1976). The full inside surface area of the cookies is touching the Oreo stuf. The Oreo as a package is even throughout making each bite equally as flavorful. The graham cookie is also not nearly as crumbly or brittle as a graham cracker, so taking a bite from a S’mores Oreo will not cause the whole Oreo to fall apart and ruin your day.
Nabisco replicated the taste of a smore flawlessly in the S’mores Oreo. Even if someone is not a fan of smores (is that possible?), they should still give S'mores Oreos a try; given the fact that S'mores Oreos were brought back as a limited edition item to be on the shelves alongside their Oreo brethren a another time shows there is a major desire for them. It is still a mystery why Nabisco does not make the S’mores Oreo a full-time Oreo or a yearly limited edition Oreo; it is one of the world’s greatest unanswered questions. Fill your smores void with Oreos, or have some more S’more Oreos if that was already accomplished.
*https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2015/08/14/the-gooey-story-of-smores/
