Nabisco first unveiled the Oreo in 1912, then marked with a distinctive logo on the outer cookie shingles. In changed in 1924, and then acquired its current form in 1954. Oreo enthusiasts have studied the logos extensively, searching for their meanings:
The circle topped with a two-bar cross in which the word “OREO” resides is a variant of the Nabisco logo, and is either “an early European symbol for quality” (according to Nabisco’s promotional materials) or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the Knights Templar into the Crusades. Continuing the Da Vinci Code-theme, the Oreo’s geometric pattern of a dot with four triangles radiating outward is either a schematic drawing of a four-leaf clover or — cue the cliffhanger music from Jaws — the cross pattée, also associated with the Knights Templar, as well as with the German military and today’s Freemasons.
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I just assumed they were antennae.
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There's something written on a Oreo cookie?
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I guess now that religion is dead we need to study the symbols of our new rulers the corporations.
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I'm an (European) brand design and history teacher, and I've to say that I've never ever seen a "two-bar cross" used as "an early European symbol for quality".
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Nice that they compared it with the Hydrox that Nabisco copied the Oreo from.
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