America’s favorite cookie is stirring up more than milk today after Kraft Foods posted a gay pride Oreo on the cookie’s Facebook page.
Oreo posted the photoshopped picture of an Oreo cookie stuffed with rainbow-colored layers of frosting Monday evening with the caption “Proudly support love!”
Over the past 17 hours more than 157,000 people have “liked” the image, 40,000 people have shared it and 20,000 have commented on it.
But while many of the comments were supportive, some Facebook users pledged to boycott the cookie because of the post.
“I’ll never buy Oreo again,” one commenter wrote.
“Disgusted with oreos,” wrote another. “Being gay is an abmonitation in GOd’s eyes i wont be buying them anymore.”
Basil Maglaris, a spokeswoman for Oreo’s parent company Kraft Foods, said in a statement that the image was part of a “series of daily ads reflecting current events in a fun way using images of OREO cookies and milk.” Kraft is not planning to sell the rainbow-stuffed Oreo in stores, Maglaris said, as it was created solely for the advertising campaign in honor of Pride month.
“We are excited to illustrate what is making history today in a fun and playful way,” she said in an email to ABC News. “As a company, Kraft Foods has a proud history of celebrating diversity and inclusiveness. We feel the OREO ad is a fun reflection of our values.”
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Other images in the Oreo ad campaign, which celebrates the cookie’s 100th birthday, include a parody of the No. 1 hit song “Call Me Maybe,” depicting an Oreo and glass of milk next to tweaked lyrics.
“I just met you and this is crazy, but here’s some milk so dunk me maybe,” reads the ad, also posted to the Oreo Facebook wall.
Oreo is the latest in a string of juggernaut brands to show support for the LGBT community.
In honor of Pride month Target launched a line of gay pride t-shirts, and the proceeds went to support the Family Equality Council, a Washington D.C.-based gay rights advocacy group. The pride shirts sold out in less than a month.
Ben & Jerry’s, a longtime supporter of LGBT causes, renamed its apple pie flavor “Apple-y Ever After” in scoop shops throughout the U.K. in March, while the British government was debating legalizing same sex marriages.
The Vermont-based ice cream company re-vamped its peanut butter-filled pretzel flavor in 2009 when same sex marriage was being legalized in Vermont, swapping the “Chubby Hubby” name for “Hubby Hubby.”
Oh for fucks sake...I woudl say this kinda thing surprises me, but it realy doesn't any more.
Oh well, more fool them. Good for Oreos.
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You have to ask thou. How to hell is one supposed to bite into a cookie that thick?
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You win. There, I have said it.
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Kuja wrote:It's not really supposed to be a bought-and-sold product as far as I know. Just an promotional image.
Well, that's a good thing, isn't it? I mean, that cookie looks like a mouthful.
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Eulogy wrote:Well, that's a good thing, isn't it? I mean, that cookie looks like a mouthful.
Hell with "mouthful" if that thing was real it might as well have had "tastes great and blocks arteries 100% more efficiently than any competitor" as a label.
Purple wrote:You have to ask thou. How to hell is one supposed to bite into a cookie that thick?
It's not as thick as you think. Sure, you would have to open a little wider, but it should fit easily.
I know this is N&P but, that's what he said.
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Next time Oreos are on sale at the supermarket, I'll buy a pack.
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bilateralrope wrote:Will fundies ever learn that all they do by creating a fuss like this is increase sales of whatever product they are angry about ?
Even bad advertising is good advertising
Case in point: I'm craving for oreos.
yup. I just added a box of chocolate covered oreos to the shopping list. Maybe i'll even buy two for spite. And my fat ass will just have to do some extra work in the yard to burn it off.
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The next best thing Oreos could do would be now try and make rainbow-colored cookies, with each color with an approriate taste. Strawberry, blueberry, orange, etc.
Admit it. You would buy it.
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Zixinus wrote:The next best thing Oreos could do would be now try and make rainbow-colored cookies, with each color with an approriate taste. Strawberry, blueberry, orange, etc.
Admit it. You would buy it.
sounds like a way to piss off both the fundie jesus freaks and the hippy dippy food gestapo with one delicious bite. Mmmmm delicious empty homosexual calories!
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Marketing EPIC WIN. Ain't gonna cost a shit and will reach LOTS of people, especially with fundies trumpeting about them.
I really hope lots of other companies follow their example for lulz.
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Heh, just at the store the other day I'm pretty sure I saw some red,white, and blue oreos that were made for forth of july or something. Sadly didn't get any because we've got cookies at home made using cake mix (Pillsbury golden cake mix, add some white chocolate chips and bake as these nice soft cake-like cookies). I might actually see about getting some.
I really like the oreos with one cookie side chocolate and one vanilla, you can always take them apart and reassemple them to be 'normal' but I rarely do that since the two flavors complement eachother.
As for colored oreos, maybe they could have one box filled with a variety of different oreos? Like red, blue, green filling, etc but the fillings all in different cookies. Then if you want one monster like in the ad you just dismantle the individual cookies and pile all the fillings together. I'm pretty sure that would be a hassle for the packaging plant though.
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A few Facebook comments do not a boycott make. The Fundamentalist Right is indeed odious, but "fuckwits say fuckwit things on Facebook" is not much of a story. There is t evens an organized group involved here.
General Schatten wrote:I'm going to boycott them too. Not because I agree, but simply because I'm pissed those rainbow oreos aren't available for purchase and consumption.
hmmm. take packet.
disect 7 oreos. pant with food colouring, reassemble.
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