Hey, you got Coca-Cola in my Oreos

If the items produced by the Oreo/Coca-Cola partnership were Infinity Stones, I‘d now have the first gem in my Infinity Gauntlet. (This gauntlet would also only have three fingers, so I’m not sure why I went with this metaphor.)

A Lasership delivery van dropped off a box containing a single package of Oreo Coca-Cola Sandwich Cookies on Monday, which happened to be the official launch day for the Oreo/Coca-Cola team-up.

My attempts to find the other two Infinity Stones in my bad metaphor of snacks were fruitless. Despite listing it as available on their website, Harris Teeter didn’t have the Oreo-flavored Coke Zero in stock. The 7-Eleven that I stopped in had an unmarked Slurpee owner that they insisted was the Coca-Cola Oreo flavor, but it appeared way too light and tasted a bit too fruity to be the case.

The search continues ...

Where I found it

Walmart made Coca-Cola Oreos available for preorder online last week.

What I paid

Buying these online, they were $4.88 a pack. (And yes, they’re still available on Walmart’s website.)

My thoughts

I expected these Oreos to smell like Coca-Cola. They’re Coca-Cola Oreos, after all. But I wasn’t ready for how impressive that scent would be when I opened up the package.

Wow.

The food scientists over at the Oreo factory not only discovered how to capture the smell associated with opening a bottle of Coke — the classic version, not the Coke Zero version — they chose to amp it up like ten times. Some of the recent Oreo varieties nailed the smell of what they were trying to mimic (the Mint Chip Oreos are a good example of this), but none of them come close to opening these Cocoa-Cola Oreos. I guess if you’re going to pay for Oreo’s official blessing, you don’t waste it.

From the best I can tell, each side of the Coca-Cola Oreos are a separate flavor. The dark side is your classic chocolate Oreo. The red side, with its crisp Coca-Cola branding as a clue, is your Coca-Cola side.

The package for these Oreos advertises that they’re armed “with popping candy.” Adding popping candy (you can’t legally call them Pop Rocks) to Oreos is nothing new for Nabisco. Variations like Space Dunk and Firework both miced these tiny bits into the classic creme.

I’m pretty sure this is the same version of the popping candy that we got in those previous Oreo editions. The popping starts off slow enough where you might not even realize the candies are in the creme, but if you were to eat enough of these Oreos in a row (and who eats just one Oreo?), you’ll definitely know they’re in there.

Final verdict: BUY

Oh, did you think there was a chance I wouldn’t recommend the Coca-Cola Oreos? If you’ve followed me on social media, you know that Oreos and soda are two of my main snack purchases, so the marriage of the two classics is a no-brainer for me.

I skipped the Cherry Cola Oreos from a few years ago, so I can’t compare them to these fellas. I can’t imagine, though, that a generic take on this duo could’ve been any better than putting real Coke flavor in Oreo cookies.