{"id":19076,"date":"2015-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=19076"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:14:26","slug":"review-nabisco-limited-edition-toasted-coconut-oreo-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/18\/review-nabisco-limited-edition-toasted-coconut-oreo-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Nabisco Limited Edition Toasted Coconut Oreo Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nabisco<\/a><\/p>\n

I can picture it now. Nabisco marketers frantically running up and down supermarket aisles, whispering to themselves in a panic:<\/p>\n

\u201cGotta find another cookie idea! What haven\u2019t we tried yet? Coffee? Rutabaga? Could we cram some creme between two Doritos-flavored cookies for the Super Bowl?”<\/i><\/p>\n

A worried mother protects her children from the sweating marketer. She tells him he\u2019s gone \u201ccrazy in the coconut.\u201d He cracks an inspired smile and steals away into the night.<\/p>\n

And so, Toasted Coconut Oreo Cookies were born. Rejecting my own brilliant idea for \u201cBack to School PB&J Oreo Cookies,\u201d Nabisco avoided the low-hanging fruit and reached higher up the palm tree.<\/p>\n

\"Nabisco<\/a><\/p>\n

To mimic the taste of a coconut creme pie, these cookies use Oreo\u2019s vanilla-flavored Golden cookies instead of the chocolate. I\u2019m guessing this choice angered all the Mounds bar lovers of the world. All four of them.<\/p>\n

Because single stuf Oreo cookies are now the MySpace of the cookie aisle, Toasted Coconut Oreo are stuffed with a double helping of white creme that is specked with darker gold shavings of \u201creal toasted coconut.\u201d This creates a complex filling that looks like a petri dish of e. coconut<\/i> specimens.<\/p>\n

The package lacks the traditional lift-n-peel opening, so like Tom Hanks and his coconut in Castaway<\/i>, I first tried to open this by throwing it against a wall and smashing it with a rock. After finally struggling it open, my nose was assaulted by vanilla and sugar. <\/p>\n

Uh-oh. Any fellow Oreo connoisseur knows this is a bad omen. My fears came true when I bit into a cookie. The powerful Nilla Wafer taste of the cookie stomps out the creme\u2019s subtle coconut flavor like a Vanilla Godzilla.<\/p>\n

\"Nabisco<\/a><\/p>\n

The faint coconut taste that attempts a futile rebellion against its Orwellian cookie overlord doesn\u2019t give the distinct, tropical, and nutty experience you\u2019d get from a Mounds or coconut scented soap, either. It\u2019s closer to the cloying, heavily sugared richness of sweetened, shredded baking coconut.<\/p>\n

The \u201ccoconuttiest\u201d part is the creme\u2019s texture, as there is a noticeable gritty chewiness. But any intended \u201ctoasted\u201d notes are completely obscured by the pure, unadulterated confectioner\u2019s sugar sweetness of the creme. <\/p>\n

But I thought maybe my personal coconut-o-meter was just broken. So I asked a few taste testers \u2014 and by \u201casked,\u201d I mean, \u201caggressively shoved cookies into the face of\u201d \u2014 and got these responses:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t get it\u2026it\u2019s just a cookie?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only like coconut when you lick the creme.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt tastes like a really sweet pi\u00f1a colada Dum-Dum sucker.\u201d<\/p>\n

So perhaps these divisive Oreo cookies just require a more sophisticated palette to bring out the coconut. If I ever fulfill my dream of hosting a ritzy lecture series called \u201cOreos & Orators,\u201d I\u2019ll be sure to accompany the heated discourse on the social commentary of Robinson Crusoe<\/i> with these thematically appropriate coconut confections.<\/p>\n

\"Nabisco<\/a><\/p>\n

Overall, they taste like a plain vanilla creme pie that a coconut just happened to sneeze on. I found it pleasant, but since it\u2019s easier to sell a used Toyota to a manatee than to recommend coconut to coconut haters, regular Golden Oreos are probably a safer, crowd pleasing option.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, those who like coconut will be left wanting a more pronounced taste. This leaves Toasted Coconut Oreo Cookies suspended in limbo. And not the fun, luau kind of limbo, either. I think Hunter S. Thompson said it best when he called them \u201ctoo weird to live, too rare to die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wait, what do you mean he\u2019s been dead for 10 years? <\/p>\n

Guess I\u2019m gonna need to book a new orator for next month.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 2 cookies \u2013 150 calories, 60 calories from fat, 7 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 80 milligrams of sodium, 15 milligrams of potassium, 20 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of dietary fiber, 12 grams of sugar, and less than 1 gram of protein.).)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Limited Edition Toasted Coconut Oreo Cookies
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $2.99
\nSize:<\/b> 10.7 oz
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Meijer
\nRating:<\/b> 6 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> All the goodness of Golden Oreo Cookies. Fun creme texture. Cookie kaiju. The under-appreciated genius of PB&J Oreo Cookies.
\nCons:<\/b> Little reason to buy them over Golden Oreo. Only a ghost of coconut toast. Non-luau limbos. The inevitability of nacho cheese-flavored Oreo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can picture it now. Nabisco marketers frantically running up and down supermarket aisles, whispering to themselves in a panic: \u201cGotta find another cookie idea! What haven\u2019t we tried yet? Coffee? Rutabaga? Could we cram some creme between two Doritos-flavored cookies for the Super Bowl?” A worried mother protects her children from the sweating marketer. 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