Search Engine Terms

For the first time, someone seems to have actually searched for a term which applies to the blog: writenothing. Until today, I hadn’t seen a single term relevent to these letters. In fact, I feel bad for people that are searching for something that is clearly not going to be found here…

Some examples of recent search engine terms:

eating chapstick
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Eating chapstick dangers lip balms

What a letdown this site must be.

Oreo Tube

Dear Nabisco,

I’m a longtime fan of the Oreo Cookie. It really is fantastic. Whoever invented it should be given a pat on the back. But nothing else. Just a pat. Could you do that for me? Give that person a pat on the back from Adam.

Oreo. What a name though. Where’d that come from? Oreo? It sounds a bit like someone can’t say Oriole.

But I digress. I’m actually contacting you to see if you are designing anything new. Specifically, anything new with the vanilla cream inside? I’m hoping you’ll say yes, and further elaborate by telling me that you’re planning to sell just the cream, no cookie. A tube (as in toothpaste tube) of Oreo cream would be great. I often find myself twisting the Oreo apart and scrapping the cream off the cookies with my front teeth. And honestly, I only eat the remaining cookies because I would feel wasteful otherwise. I don’t necessarily need the cookies to have a good time. I would be perfectly content sitting down on the couch with an Oreo tube in one hand and my pet spider in the other.

So, how about it? Are you making Oreo tubes?

RESPONSE

Hi Adam,

Thank you for visiting http://www.nabiscoworld.com.  I am delighted to hear how pleased you are with our Oreo Cookies.

I searched our files and found a little history that may be of interest to you.

Oreo Biscuit was first produced in 1912.  The story behind the naming of this cookie is not actually known, but it could possibly originate from the Greek word, “Oreo”, meaning hill or mountain.  When it was first produced, it was shaped like a baseball mound or a hill–hence, an “Oreo”.  This seems likely since the President of the National Biscuit Company at the time, A.W. Green, had a tendency to choose classical names for the new cookies being introduced.

The name originally was registered in 1913 as Oreo Biscuit, again in 1921 as Oreo Sandwich, in 1948 as Oreo Crème Sandwich, and in 1975 as Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies.  Throughout the four variations of the name, it has remained one of the largest selling products and one of the country’s favorite cookies.

Thanks so much for taking the time to contact us with your suggestion also.  We’re always delighted when consumers care enough about our products to offer their own creative ideas 

As you might know, we have a new ‘unsolicited ideas’ policy that allows Kraft to consider some types of ideas (mainly for new products and packaging innovations) submitted by consumers. However, our policy does not cover:

product line extensions
packaging changes
advertising
promotions
recipes ideas

But comments shared by our consumers can be very helpful to Kraft. Various Kraft teams review comments such as yours to help us identify consumer trends, preferences and needs.

Again, we appreciate you contacting us and applaud both your creativity and loyalty

Nancy Miller
Associate Director, Consumer Relations

Nervous Highway Driving

Dear Minnesota Department of Transportation,

There’s a highway, HWY 52, and this highway passes near Rochester, MN. I’ve driven on it a few times. It’s an all right highway. There’s some issues with it. And me.

Why do you have the sign “Approaching Zero Death Corridor”? I get quite nervous when I’m in this corridor. I feel like I cannot let you down, that no matter what I do, I cannot break this streak that you have. The sign shouldn’t be before the corridor. It should be after it.  ”Now Leaving Zero Death Corridor.” This way no one knew they were in such a corridor and no one feels any unecessary tension. Does that make sense?

I think I may try and avoid HWY 52 for the time being. It’s just too much for me.

 RESPONSE

Thanks for writing. 

The purpose of posting signs such as these is to
make drivers aware of their driving and the consequences of driver
distraction, speeding, and imparied driving.  It is not intende to create
additional tension for each driver, but if that increases the drivers
awareness of their surroundings then our goal is being reached. 
Driver inattention is a major component of vehicular crashes and making
the public aware of the consequences of these actions is a goal of
Minnesota’s Toward Zero Death Program.  Mn/DOT and our partners are making
every effort to insure that drivers are as safe as possible on our
roadway systems.  By posting these types of signs we hope to modify
drivers behavior, such that vehicular fatalities continue to decrease from
year to year.

If you have additional comment or questions, please contact me
directly.

Thanks for your concern, Mike.

My demands have been met.

Sides have reached an agreement.

On Strike

I’m on strike.