Who doesn’t love Oreos, right? According to the Oreo website (yes, they have their own website), the “OREO Double Stuf Chocolate Sandwich Cookies have been America’s favorite cookie for over 100 years. Stuffed with twice as much delicious OREO creme, these chocolate sandwich cookies are supremely dunkable. Double Stuf OREO cookies are great for sharing with friends, serving at parties, or enjoying with cold milk.”1
Whoever invented these should have received some sort of international award. However, the greatest reward should go to the person who invented the Stuf! This closely guarded recipe is what makes the Oreo something special. But here’s a few technicalities that might surprise you.
Double Stuf Oreos aren’t really doubled stuffed. There is only 1.86 times the normal amount of Stuf. And you will notice that the Stuf is called crème. Is Nabisco just trying to be fancy, calling it crème instead of cream? This is where the good folks of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) come in. There are no dairy products in the Stuf. No cream. Therefore, the Stuf cannot be called cream but must be called crème. The only way to get dairy products in the Oreo is for the consumer to dunk them in their glass of milk for approximately three seconds to get the optimal milk-to-cookie dunking ratio.
Legalities and technicalities. For Nabisco to divulge these facts means that someone tried to trip them up in years gone by. Instead of just enjoying the cookie, someone must have actually weighed the Stuf in a traditional Oreo and compared it to the weight of the Stuf in the Double Stuf. Another person must have done a chemical analysis of the Stuf to determine that there was no cream in the crème. The world is full of people like this and always has been.
Jesus faced people like this. Matthew 22:34-40 records one of those moments. “But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. (35) Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, (36) Master, which is the great commandment in the law? (37) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (38) This is the first and great commandment. (39) And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (40) On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
We are going to face people who want to trip us up in our faith. They are going to set us up, trying to get us to say something contradictory and defensive. This is why Peter told us in 1 Peter 3:15, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” We have to get ready for the questions.
Perhaps we ask, “How can we prepare for the unknown questions?” That’s simple. Know thoroughly inside and out what you believe and why you believe it based on the Word of God. Know the “ingredients” and you won’t have to invent answers on the spot.
This is going to take a lifetime of preparation but as you respond to the challenges to your faith, the answers will become sweeter than a Double Stuf Oreo.
1https://www.oreo.com/oreo-doublestuff-cookies
