A documentation and review of limited time, special edition, or otherwise hard-to-find noms.
Product circa: 2022
The chocolate is infused with coffee powder. The first few bites will have you think you’re chewing on a chocolate-covered coffee bean. Soon after, the caramel center takes over, and it’s very chewy, with a pleasing texture. The coffee flavor stays until the end. A perfectly executed snack, very satisfying.
Product circa: 2016
Golden Oreo cookies with vanilla creme, both of which have chocolate specks in them. The creme seems to have a bit of brown sugar added to it and, IMO, I think the cookies might have a bit of that as well.
Overall, really delicious. Despite being an overall “vanilla” treat, the specks still make it taste notably of chocolate, and the brown sugar tint to it all really adds a hearty nuance. These might be slightly better than the original Oreo, whether we’re talking about the original or Golden.
Product circa: 2014
Artificial green apple flavor tends to be pretty rough for me, usually. But somehow, here they really manage to make it work. The caramel flavoring in the bifurcated creme mingles with the apple creme and is quite pleasant, in the end.
Product circa: 2023
One of the weird LTOs that Coke offered in the 2023 era, all of which had concept-y names that had no bearing on the product itself.
This tastes like a fruitier Coke, and I can detect coconut, but no pineapple, as the internet had been saying. The Zero Sugar version is a damn good approximation of the full sugar.
Coke keeps being restrained with the amount of additional flavoring that they add to the variations, while Pepsi continued to be bold with theirs. And that's why Pepsi flavored colas are always better.
Product circa: 2025
Note: This is a Presumptive Ephemeral Nom.
Simply put, a flavor that somehow concentrates on citrus flavors within a formula that is already based on citrus. I get added flavors of orange, lime, and maybe even grapefruit. But it is missing additional acid - this feels sweeter than it needs to be, and I think the product suffers for it.
As expected, these both taste about the same: simply, chocolate cookie with a peppermint-flavored creme. Not bad, but I'm not a chocolate (pepper)mint guy.
Product circa: Intermittently from 2014 to 2019
Golden Oreo cookies with a creme that tastes like the marshmallows you get in cereal, plus the addition of tiny Rice Krispies in said creme.
I ate opened this package four years after I bought them in 2019 and... they were fine. But I can’t help look through my nostalgia glasses back to 2014, when I first tried these fresh. They were incredible. The cereal-marshmallow flavor went so well with the cookies, it was like a revelation. The only way I’ll be able to know I’m not crazy is if Oreo every decides to revive this variety.
