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Haha… Totally true.

We also always had watered down kool-aid.

Ha! This post is funny because Hydrox cookies are actually the original and Oreos are the copy. But because Nabisco advertises the heck out of Oreos, nobody remembers this.

when I was in vbs is was all about he off-brand vanilla wafers. none of this nilla wafer action for you.

Annie.

You can’t find the name “hydrox” any more because that actually stood for the devil food – partially hydrogenated oil!!! I hate the stuff and it disgusts me that it was SO prevalent in those cookies that they are actually NAMED for it! YIKES!

Hydrox was named after hydrogen and oxygen (the elements that make up water) not hydrogenated oil. In fact they were all-Kosher even when Oreo used pig fat.
http://spacefem.com/hydrox/fortune.html

Yes, yes, yes. Why are Christians frugal/tight/miserly? Let’s be extravagant! Pepperidge Farm for everybody!

Bootleg cookies … I nearly wet my pants. So hilarious!

I can totally feel you on this one. My annoyance came from generic sodas. When they went cheap on soda that was totally not cool.

SO true. I can’t even eat those cookies anymore…they take me way back.

The best thing about VBS cookies was that for weeks on end right before it, you’d see the request in the bulletin for cookies. TOns of people would go all out and actually help bake the dozens of cookies we loved to snarf down. But lately, because of food allergies and the need to avoid any potential food incidences, it now requests only store-bought cookies. ^_^

Bootleg cookies? lol That’s a good one. Let’s take it a step further. How about bootleg videos in the church? If you only knew how many church folk had bootleg copies of the Passion of the Christ…..(before the movie was released…I’m not talking about the free-viewings either!).

Yet we’ll spend extra of bible mints. Hmmm!

Ok, my church has a freezer full of this crap left over from VBS last June! The kids wouldn’t eat them, and no one would throw them away.

for a second there i thought revdavepett was from the church i was an intern for this summer because of his comment. haha
i definitely remember the bootleg cookies – NOT good. the kids these days have turned into snobs and won’t eat them! the deal this year was off brand pudding – we had a TON left over from VBS this year. a large freezer full. and we ended up giving it away to the other church when we went to camp in july because our kids wouldn’t eat the rest!

Wow, I actually liked these cookies, though I still prefer Oreos. Does that make me a heretic, or extra-holy?

Every year our church’s local Friendly’s would donate all of their unsold Jubilee rolls, after Christmas. We ate them every week as our snack for youth group. For years. I can’t even look at a Jubilee roll without twitching.

That’s an awesome name for it. I’ve been to so many VBS nights where we had the “other stuff”… you can call it what you want but it never tastes the same as the “real stuff”.

Don't know if you have it in the US but down under we have a brand of instant coffee – International Roast which many churches are guilty of using every Sunday to encourage people not to hang around after the service. If the're really serious about clearing the building quickly they use International Roast Caterer's Blend, which I'm pretty sure consists of whatever they sweep up off the factory floor at the end of the day. Of course in these enlightened days you can get that crap from free or pay for a good coffee from the espresso machine and of course 'seekers' and 'guests' can often get a voucher for a free good coffee from the espresso machine, but once the good coffee has won you to Christ, it's either pay uup, or off to the free coffee counter to do your penance with the IRCB.

WV scenn; as in Joe: "Where scenn? – I was sure he'd be back today, I got him a coffee voucher last week."
Joe's Friend: "No, the Morning Tea Roster ladies got to him first. He won't be back."

HAHA! So true. Love it.

By the way. Hydrox were the original chocolate sandwich cookie. Oreo's were released later but, over the years, became brand dominant and sales of the Hydrox dipped so low that they were eventually discontinued – I saw a documentary on it.

I laughed at this because I remember all to well. Actually our church kept everything in the FREEZER so not only was it off-brand but it was also soggy after the thaw. Ahhh childhood memories

HYDROX!!! My disdain for those stems not so much from church (as a child we got crackers which are fine generic & i went to a BIG church in youth so we did get OREO's) but when mom tried to go cheap. I understand somethings generic, but you don't mess with a kids OREO's.

when I worked for Haägen Daz Ice Cream (as an ice cream scooper) we had to learn the ingredients for the ice cream. They, at that time, used Hydrox Sandwich Cookies because those cookies were kosher and had no artificial ingredients. If Hydrox no longer exists, what kind of cookies are in Cookies & Cream????

oatmeal raisin…just sayin!

haha, this is so true. I work with the children at my church over the summer and we still give them bootleg cookies sometimes. Everyonce in ahwhile we give out some good things though like Nutty Buddy Bars… now those are good…

Sadoplula
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So I almost like hydrox cookies as a kid… just because they were the only option for oreo-like snacks.