Farewell to Oreos and Ritz Crackers in Japan

[bikkuri bahn]

The license to manufacture and sell those products has expired. Oreo cookies henceforth will be imported from China. Expect a run on remaining made in Japan product. Perhaps an enterprising company could revive Hydrox with Japanese production?

http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye2858084.html?from_newsr

[Ken Ford]

Ritz are no loss, but Chinese Oreos? I wonder what percentage of the daily recommended amount of Melamine they contain.

[westfalen]

I'm just the opposite, I've never been a fan of Oreos but will miss the Ritz crackers especially the ones with the cheese filling.  Neither are Japanese to start with though.

[Kabutoni]

No loss. I don't think I ever spend any money on neither brand, as I like to stick to locally produced/branded products.

[railsquid]

I was only familiar with Oreos through references in books and never saw any before I came to Japan. For some reason I imagined they were much bigger and somehow amazingly wonderful, but they were just small chocolate (?) flavour biscuits with a sugary cream filling... I guess they are very popular in the US?

[Kiha66]

 I guess they are very popular in the US?

 

You could say that...

[JR 500系]

They are famous here in Sillypore too, but they are produced from Malaysia, Thailand or Vietnam.

 

Would these make the current Japanese made ones more 'valuable'?  :)

[railsquid]

Truly a collector's item, a heirloom to pass onto your grandchildren.

 

Wasn't there some other US confectionary which had an effectively unlimited shelf-life? Twinkie or Hostess or something?

[bikkuri bahn]

I think that was Twinkies.  Hostess is/was the umbrella name of the lineup of cheap bakery goods affordable for and consumed typically by schoolage children with a few quarters in their pocket- I was partial to the apple and cherry pies sold at the local corner store (now long gone).

[cteno4]

Twinkies were notorious for being post apocalyptic food stuff. But in grad school we left a pair of snow balls (half sphere twinkles with synthetic coconut shavings on top all dyed pink) out on the lab bench for 4+ years exposed to a lot of bacteria and yeast floating around the lab and they never grew anything on them and stayed spongie until we tossed them!

 

Jeff

[kvp]

Hostess was the original maker of the Twinkies and other food like stuff.

[dabsan]

Never tried the Twinkies as they were never sold in the UK but I always remember seeing them advertised in the imported Marvel and DC comics that I used to buy as a kid in the 1970/80s. Just remembered the sea monkey adverts too ha! :laughing6: 

[cteno4]

They are totally un-natural products, hard to think of anything more un-natural to ingest, but they are good if you are into that sort of thing!

 

I think they are sold in the uk, I thought I remembered seeing them in northern Scotland and thinking that's wild, but they eat deep fried mars bars there, so a Twinkie ain't so odd. They've probably deep friend twinkles as well!

 

Jeff