Kotas Reviews Pumpkin Spice Oreos

Ah Fall! The time when pumpkin starts its ascendancy as the "flavor of the season", before sliding into the background for another year when peppermint and the like reign during the winter. So, of COURSE Nabisco got into the act with Oreos. Is it wonder or terror we shall experience? Let us find out!

Does this package seem smaller to you? That's what she said.

Well, it has a pumpkin on it, and it's yellow, signifying it will use the Golden Oreo as the base cookie. It may just be the graphics on the cover, but for some reason I think the container is smaller than the other Oreo flavors I've been trying recently. Maybe it's just the cold weather causing shrinkage. Also, when did cinnamon become a generic stand in for "spice"? Is it because it is the only spice most people think of when they think of fall? What about all spice, eh? Or cardamom? Oh well! Let's pop open these bad muthas and see what they are about.

Well, it is certainly orange. Maybe that should be looked at.

The scent is incredibly strong, and reminds me of those pumpkin spice candles you can buy at almost every store ever during the fall. It's a good smell, but it has that faint whiff of artificiality that can make your nose wrinkle a bit. The twist test had mixed results, as you can see above. The first one failed miserably, but a subsequent test was almost perfect. The taste is...well, it is complicated. The creme by itself tastes like I think a pumpkin spice candle should taste if you were to eat it. Very strong flavor, kind of plastic-y, not particularly appetizing. HOWEVER, if you eat it with the cookie, the cookie neutralizes a lot of the plastic-ish parts of the flavor and adds some vanilla, which makes it taste pretty good. Very pumpkin and spice, but I cannot taste any cinnamon really. Dunking it in milk mellows the flavor a bit, but otherwise leaves it about the same, so it is personal preference here.

On the FACE Rating System, the Pumpkin Spice Oreo gets 1 smiley. It is appropriately fall themed, and the flavor on the package is mostly the flavor you will get, but for me it is not a flavor I particularly enjoy in cookie format. It's not bad, and I'd eat them again, but I will not go out of my way to acquire them except for maybe a theme party or something. If you like pumpkin spice flavoring though, they may be more your cup of tea.