Edit (): This post is now featured on the Huffington Post. Or if you’re terrifically lazy, spoilers found here. Subway responded by saying the footlong was a "descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length. Evidence: 10 Original Oreos: 10 Double Stuf Oreos: 10 Mega Stuf Oreos: 5 Wafers: I’ll leave the math to you. This package contains 1 resealable 17.6 oz family size pack. Haven’t got your fill of filling The Mega Stuf OREO packs even more creme between two chocolate cookies, making for a sweet experience that satisfies every single time. Or if you’re terrifically lazy, spoilers found here. OREO Mega Stuf Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, Family Size, 17.6 oz. "While I'm not familiar with what was done in the classroom setting, I can confirm for you that our recipe for the Oreo Double Stuf Cookie has double the Stuf, or creme filling, when compared with our base, or original Oreo cookie," the spokeswoman said.Īnderson's students' discovery comes on the heels of online outrage directed at Subway Australia earlier this year when a customer posted a photo on Facebook of his foot-long sub next to a tape measure to prove it fell an inch short. Evidence: 10 Original Oreos: 10 Double Stuf Oreos: 10 Mega Stuf Oreos: 5 Wafers: I’ll leave the math to you. "They were surprised," said Anderson, who documented the classroom experiment on his blog.Ī spokeswoman for Nabisco told the company's Double Stuf Oreos are made to have double the creme filling as the original Oreos. The Double Stuf Oreos were 1.86 times the size of regular Oreos, while the Mega Oreos were 2.68 times the size of regular Oreos, by the students' measure. Using mathematical equations to determine the creme content of the cookies, Anderson's students found that the bigger Oreos might disappoint. "And we weighed five wafers alone to deduct from the total." First of all, they contained, by mass, only 2.5 times the amount of creme as Originals, rather than the advertised 3 times. Same thickness, but the creme is spread wider Finding 3: Mega Stuf are the same thickness as Double Stuf As I crunched the numbers, Mega Stuf really started to disappoint me. "We weighed 10 of each - Double Stuf, Mega Stuf and regular," Anderson said. Mega Stuf (left) and Double Stuf (right). He then split his students into different groups, with some measuring the cookies' height and some their weight. "When the Mega Stuf Oreos came out, I decided to do it."Īnderson, 32, brought his class one package each of regular Oreos, Double Stuf and Mega Stuf. "This class is for students struggling with math so I'm always looking for hands-on activities," Anderson, who teaches in Queensbury, N.Y., told today. The upstate New York high school teacher tasked the students in his "Consumer Math" course in the spring with determining whether Nabisco's Double Stuf and Mega Stuf Oreos really are, indeed, double and mega stuffed. If you ever thought high school math wasn't useful in real life, take a look at what the students in Dan Anderson's class discovered.
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