Triple Double

No I am not referring to the Triple/Double rainbow man…ha

Even though I normally share with topics such as package design, pictures, comparisons and advertisements–when I heard this on the radio I figured why not talk about a new product?

Image provided by Nabisco World

Arriving in stores now is the new Triple Double Oreo Cookie. I know what you are thinking–more filling SWEET! Triple stands for the three layers of cookie and the double refers to the cream. But not so fast. I never said it was the original vanilla filling…Oreo has released this layered cookie with one side having the vanilla creme, and the other having chocolate cream.

So when you look at the original Oreo cookie, they are about 50 calories per cookie–making these new cookies about 100 calories each! Think for a second…compare an entire 100 calorie bag of snacks (chips, pretzels, even cookies) to just one cookie?

Doesn’t this completely go against all of the obesity acts, calorie key reforms and healthy options that we are trying to enforce? Not only do we have a highly sugared cookie–but now we are going to double it?! Granted if you can limit yourself to just one cookie, it may not be so bad, but if you don’t like chocolate–why bother?

Another item to add to the reason why our obesity rate is so high? Or a great new innovation?

What do you think?