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Marvel Oreo Stuf of Doom

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Over the years, I’ve eaten a lot of different Oreo flavors. I’m a sucker for gimmicks, and ever since Oreo started releasing a new flavor a couple of times a year, I’ve gone out of my way — for over a decade now — to try them all. I think it’s fun. And while the flavors usually aren’t particularly good, they’re at least… interesting.

Some people are shocked when I buy a new package, eat two cookies, and give the rest away. But they’re missing the point — I’m not buying them because I love Oreos. Heck, I don’t even like black cocoa, the signature ingredient of the basic Oreo. I find it slightly bitter in a way that doesn’t work for me, and I’m a dark-chocolate person otherwise. But it’s fun.

Even as a kid, I was this way. I was six years old, flying back to visit my dad. I was about as nervous as an autistic kid on a plane gets, so they gave me a whole package of mint chocolate “Grasshopper” Oreos. Now, here’s the thing: I don’t even like mint chocolate. Not the Girl Scout cookies, not the ice cream. I don’t even use mint toothpaste. But for that very stressful trip, the cookies I didn’t like were the exact cookies I asked for. I remember the flight attendant — sorry, flight stewardess; this was the 80s — asking what I wanted to drink. With a big cheeky grin, I said milk, and pulled the Oreos out of my He-Man backpack. She laughed and thought it was adorable. The other passengers thought it was hilarious. The guy next to me said he wished he’d thought to pack cookies, too.

So it is that I’ve long bought cookies I didn’t particularly like — for nostalgia, for curiosity, for who knows why. And so it was that I had to buy the ones with my favorite Marvel character on the box: the arch-villain himself, Doctor Doom. A crossover promo called Marvel Oreo Stuf of Doom.

I brought them home and completely ignored whatever nonsense they had about the special colors. Am I really going to lick a cookie to make it change color? I’m not that guy. I dip them — whole — I don’t eat dry Oreos. I’m not a savage.

So I think to myself: I’ll eat a couple and give the rest to my board game group.

I did not give them to my board game group.

They’re amazing.

Graham cracker crust, which offsets the bitterness. Marshmallow creme. Nothing groundbreaking — but far more flavorful than the usual pure-sugar icing. These are, no exaggeration, the best Oreos I’ve ever had.

Now, you might be thinking: isn’t this just the regular graham-cracker-chocolate-marshmallow Oreo? Absolutely not. That one is a graham cracker Oreo — no chocolate — with a layer of chocolate creme and a layer of marshmallow creme. Different cookie entirely, and the marshmallow gets bulldozed. This is a chocolatey graham-cracker cookie with a generous slab of marshmallow creme. The worst part? I can’t imagine we’ll see it again anytime soon. The apple pie Oreos (horrible) come back every year. The pumpkin ones, the seasonal whatevers — they all come back. But this one? Unless Marvel runs another promo, that might’ve been the last we ever get.

So I bought a second package. The first time — in over a decade of this nonsense — I’ve ever bought a backup of a gimmick flavor.

Five full moons — the best Oreos I've ever had.