Remember Hydrox cookies? They're back. I watched a good video about them on YouTube last night. Two partners had a cookie company, but their crooked lawyer took over their company. They started their own company and developed Hydrox - the original Oreo. The man running their original company developed a cheaper, less natural copy of the Hydrox and called it Oreo. He happened to latch onto an effective ad campaign featuring people twisting off one of the cookies to reveal the cream inside. Oreo took off, the partners from Hydrox both died suddenly, and Hydrox faded.

The brand was bought and sold over the years, and finally, it was dropped. A man started a company called Leaf to bring back a type of lollypop, and then he decided to revive Hydrox. Unfortunately, the company making Oreo - or a related company - messed up the Hydrox displays in stores, hiding them in the back, and that hurt sales of the new product. Then Oreo began calling itself "The Original." If you're wondering about the name, "hyd" is from hydrating, as in water, and "ox" is from oxygen - two things essential for life. "Oreo" comes from the name of the flower used for the design on both Hydrox and Oreos. Yes, the crooked lawyer even used the same flower for the design of his imitation cookie.

Hydrox are available on Amazon, but they're backordered. I'm on the waiting list.