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.
Funny, isn’t it?
Can any good come out of a dare?
Only friendships that last a lifetime.
A couple of decades ago (when I couldn’t have been more than five), a good friend and colleague at Hallmark Cards dared me to audition for an improv troupe in Kansas City called Lighten Up.
The next five years of my life were cast. Every Friday and Saturday night I was on that stage. And the players who I performed with soon became some of the best friends of my life.
They still are to this day.
That’s why I’m thrilled to rejoin the original members of the Lighten Up Improv Company tonight in a reunion performance. Many of us haven’t done improv in years, so the show should be funny on many levels.
But hanging out with my best friends?
In the words of Trish Berrong, ‘that’s just stupid fun.’
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