New ABC reality show to let people make their own godawful branded food mashups
Limited Time Offer dares to ask why screwing up Oreos should solely be the purview of the Nabisco corporation.
Chicken And Waffle flavor Oreos, Image: Nabisco
The steady eroding of our collective attention spans has left its symptoms splashed all over the modern human experience, from the way we talk to each other, to the way we vote, to a third thing we’ll definitely remember to come back and pop into this space after the rest of the article is done. But one of its weirder offshoots has been in the world of shopping, where brands have gone to increasing lengths to combat/exploit our collective boredom with the Herculean task of keeping like five thoughts in a row, often by mixing and matching flavors with recognizable brands that were doing just fine as they were. “Linoleum-flavored Oreos?” we say to ourselves, as we trundle through the cookie aisle we told our wife we’d stop visiting. “I bet those taste like shit. Better spend $6 finding out.”
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