Welcome to my Hydrox cookie website!

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Kelloggs is having a contest to find America's Biggest Hydrox Fan! You could win a trip to New York... and a LOT OF COOKIES! You have until July 14th to enter so hurry.

About This Site

Around 1999 or so, I wrote an article about Hydrox cookies and how, even though they tasted better than Oreos, everyone thought they were cheap knockoffs.

I was happy to get e-mails from other concerned cookie-eaters who agreed with me and wanted to share experiences with other Hydrox "people", and I learned more.

The whole story was an upsetting one: a little bakery called Sunshine created the original sandwich cookie, Hydrox, only to be ripped off and out-marketed by a bigger competing bakery, who called their cookie Oreo.

Eventually America bought into the fact that Hydrox cookies were the generic rip-off and Oreos were the original... the classic.

Sometime around 2002 or 2003 our cookies were reformulated and then just vanished completely.

Sunshine became Keebler and Keebler became Kelloggs and I turned my article into this silly website, where hundreds of internet nerds could validate my obsession, read up on the history, and see nice pictures.

Then all the sudden after five years and 600 comments, this random article in the Wall Street Journal announces that Hydrox cookies are coming back! They should be available sometime in late August or early September 2008, based on reports I've read. I know, crazy, right?

So browse around, leave your own comments, and get ready for some freakishly good cookies here in a few months!

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