The Oreo turned 100 yesterday. I cheered. Bet you did, too.
But last night I learned that the eerily similar Hydrox sandwich cookie is 104 years old.
Now I have a bad taste in my mouth.
The Oreo — which, let’s face it, has the better name between the two — came second. Was actually inspired by Hydrox.
But somehow Hydrox has always been perceived as the knockoff through the years. So much so that the cookie was removed from the market in 2003. Yet in 2008, in response to an online petition, Kelloggs put Hydrox back on the market, albeit temporarily, under the original Sunshine label.
Now? All I can find is some crushed Hydrox on Nuts.com.
How fitting.
He’s a nightlight for sale at my friend Stephanie’s shop, Stoopher & Boots.
Smelly cat
As society and technologies advance, some practices become archaic.
So why are people still bathing in cologne and perfume?
So as a rule — and again, I’m generalizing here — men and women in the US are pretty darn clean.
So why the need to surround yourself in a cloud of cloying cologne? When you walk down the sidewalk, it’s practically visible. Passersby choke on it. Folks who hug you are left unwilling wearers of it.
And let’s not even discuss your elevator assassinations.
Perfumes were initially reserved for burial rituals, then became popular as a way to cover the stench of the great unwashed. We are no longer — as a rule — the great unwashed. A little goes a really long way.
Think before you spray.
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