The Hydrox Page: Visitor Comments
If you have something to say about hydrox cookies, click here to leave a comment!| Doug February 5, 2010 11:15 pm | |
| From: | Washington State |
| Message: | They were a Limited Edition. If everyone that has posted here would have emailed Kelloggs on a daily basis, MAYBE they would have been brought back permanantly. Kelloggs also did not promote them at all. |
| Johnny D January 25, 2010 11:09 pm | |
| From: | Piedmont, CA |
| Message: | I was thrilled by the Centennial reintroduction and bought a number of boxes for my kids (and self) and then...poof, they were gone. What happened? Wasn't the demand strong enough? Any chance of bringing them back? I feel a palpable void. Hydrox were absolutely wonderful. |
| aiken January 11, 2010 7:25 pm | |
| From: | CT/NY |
| Message: | I was sad to learn of the demise of Hydrox. I never was an 'Oreo' fan, nor did/do any of the creme filled sandwich cookies compare according to my taste buds. And I was delighted to learn that Hydrox was being reintroduced. However, extremely disappointed that i was Never successful in actually finding them available in my worldly travels. Frankly, I am curious to know which supermarket chains in the Northeast actually stocked them? It seems they Never in truth hit the shelves as promised. Heck, i confess to having driven 54 miles round trip one sunny afternoon, all in pursuit of a childhood memory. Perhaps, if they had strategically stocked them people/consumers would have found their way back home to Hydrox, or even discovered them for their very first time! And perhaps today they would be sitting in my pantry and those of others awaiting an ice cold glass of milk to greet them, and a smile standing opposite an outstretched hand. I feel the short lived alleged reintroduction was truly a missed opportunity for both loyal consumers as well as the Kellogg Sunshine Division! I find the decision sadly regrettable and these days I generally find myself skipping the cookie aisles. Perhaps a gesture of silent protest? I never envisioned the day i would find myself surfing the net in search of an elusive source for Hydrox cookies~! They were sophisticated as opposed to an over sweetened "Oreo" and Keebler and i for one will miss them always! Hydrox may be gone But Not Forgotten! A sad farewell as I think the Hydrox Cookie deserved Better! |
| Bill Kimsey January 7, 2010 12:18 pm | |
| From: | New Orleans |
| Message: | My mother always bought Hydrox. We never had Oreos. If we did not have homemade desert she would bring out the bag of Hydrox. My sister and I would get four. I dipped the cookie in milk to eat. As I remember, they were very good. |
| Edward Keller January 4, 2010 6:47 pm | |
| From: | Glenview, IL 60025 |
| Message: | I've said this for years. Of course Oreos would beat Hydrox. The reason? Not the taste. "It's the name, stupid!" Oreos just sounds like it would taste better than Hydrox. But they DO NOT taste better despite the cutesy name. Hydrox absolutely DOES TASTE BETTER. Unless you've lost your taste for what genuinely tastes good. Demand the better product. Don't buy inferior anything just because of a more clever name. I certainly think a good marketer and a really good advertising campaign could call attention to all of this. Droxys? Not so sure about that name. |
| Roger Williams January 3, 2010 4:02 pm | |
| From: | Wilton, CA |
| Message: | My sister-in-law, who knows I love Hydrox, got me some Tuxedos from Safeway for Christmas. I just had some with a nice glass of ice cold milk ... pretty darn close to a Hydrox. It was great having them back in '08, I sure wish they would come back permanently. |
| mike keniston December 24, 2009 11:22 am | |
| From: | Malden, MA. |
| Message: | please don't let the best cookie i ever tasted go away. Hydrox cookies put oreo's to shame. I know how big company's have taken American culture away, but please try to remember, there are still alot off people who actually care about our heritege and America. Hydrox is a piece of that. |
| Bill December 15, 2009 11:05 am | |
| From: | Roanoke, Virginia |
| Message: | I saw Hydrox Cookies (special edition) this past week with an expiration date of April 2009 at a discount store. After reading your web page I was alarmed to find out they have reentered the market with a different recipe. I always preferred Hydrox over Oreos, and I threw out my last Oreos because they tasted so bad...their new recipe I presume. Bring back to original Hydrox...I would buy a pack every week. |
| M L December 9, 2009 12:40 am | |
| From: | midwest |
| Message: | Growing up our favorite cookie was the original Hydrox. Oreo's center was too fluffy. Hydrox had a flatter more sugar grainy feel. The sugar had a more chewy,substantial, melt in the mouth quality, a much more sophisticated taste than Oreo's center. Hydrox's chocolate cookie tasted chocolate. After a milk bath, the cookie became the perfect combination of cool milk, sugar and chocolate, not too mushy but with fill- your -mouth goodness. Then they changed the filling and ruined the whole experience. I would love to have the Original Hydrox back, but not the updated version. It was as bad as Oreos. |
| Andi November 21, 2009 8:58 pm | |
| From: | originally Mich now FL |
| Message: | I got in discussion with my husband about Hydrox the only cookies my dad ever bought for his 5 kids. I don't like Oreos and have not ever bought them for my sons. So sorry that Kellogs dropped them. I can think of other products Kellogs have that should have been dropped instead. Oh well guess they are but a memory now |
| Rick B. November 5, 2009 10:49 am | |
| From: | Springfield, Mo |
| Message: | Man, peoples taste differences are astounding. I remember as kid mom buying us some Hydrox instead of OROES's & I remember how awful tasting they were & how hard they were. When I dunked my OREO's in milk it wasn't a quick dunk, it was a few seconds so the cookie could absorb some milk & be a bit mushy. If memory serves me right, it took a Hydrox forever to do the same. And the taste was so much worse. Its like Coke & Pepsi: just because one came before the other does not make the first better than the 2nd. I love Cokes image, but Pepsi is so much better tasting. Coke tastes & feels so acrid on the tongue & throat while Pepsi has such & sweet & lively flavor. I don't really care that Hyrox is gone but I also wouldn't fault it if was on the market, I just wouldn't eat the things. |
| Cari October 20, 2009 3:09 pm | |
| From: | North Dartmouth, Massachusetts |
| Message: | A friend of mine bought me a couple of bags of Hydrox cookies when they first were re-introduced a couple of years ago, and as much as I was looking forward to them, as soon as I opened the package, I realized they were likely the reformulation that occurred just prior to their exit years ago. Sunshine's Hydrox cookie was a thin, dark cookie, with white cream inside. The cookie was flatter, with a slightly raised design, but was crispier than the ones recently available. The original Hydrox I grew up on had a distinctly more buttery taste, and was less sweet tasting than their rival, Oreos. I was born in 1951, so my memory of these favorites may go back further than some Hydrox lovers who are younger, but I recall they also made "Lady Fingers", I think they were called, similar to "Cameo" cookies or "Vanilla Fingers", and this product too was crispier, and less sweeter than any of their rivals. I loved Sunshine Bakery cookies, including ones my siblings did not, like the raisin cookies, they were connected and you had to break them off from each other. Somehow the original Hydrox cookie was not reproduced with the recent product available. I wondered if it was because Sunshine used butter in the original recipe, but perhaps there was a production change ? when the fake scare info about butter, being so very unhealthy for us, and margarine, which is a molecule away from being a plastic, took over the baking industry. I am not messaging to start any ruckus, just to offer my comments that despite looking forward to the re-entry, even temporary, of Hydrox original cookies, I knew with the first bite that it was not the original taste. They reformulated Hydrox some time prior to its inevitable demise, so that it tasted more like Oreos, and I was disappointed back then, and even more so now. The original Hydrox was "shinier" too, I recall, which is how I spotted this remake as different from the original. It may have something to do with how it was baked, versus what was put into the product. It just isn't the same. |
| LN October 17, 2009 5:23 pm | |
| Message: | Finally got around to investigating why Hydrox, far superior to Oreo, is not in the grocery store anymore, and wah lah, I found your website. Thanks! |
| Caryl October 14, 2009 1:10 pm | |
| From: | Albany NY, previously Miami Fl |
| Message: | I was so excited to see how many people really enjoyed Hydrox cookies. My family too were largely Oreo people, though I'd sometimes get a bag of Hydrox...never ever touched an Oreo in the day, but had been know to take a "row" of Hydrox off by myself...please bring them back??? thanks |
| Mackie JV Blanton October 11, 2009 11:48 am | |
| From: | New Orleans, LA |
| Message: | If Hydrox no longer contains lard, the taste has then changed. |
| Twyla Day September 28, 2009 1:08 pm | |
| From: | Virginia |
| Message: | Hydrox was my favorite cookie growing up and I miss it. That is what my children grew up on and they miss it too. Bring it back!!! |
| Keith Gregory September 25, 2009 6:39 am | |
| From: | Fergus Falls, MN |
| Message: | Hydrox are/were the best. I've had to wince everytime i was forced to buy Oreos. I hope the new Droxys aren't changed too much cause us old kids liked them just the way they were. |
| Bruce Smith September 23, 2009 1:29 pm | |
| From: | MA |
| Message: | Where am I from? Originally NYC. In any case, I was just reading some opinions that Hydrox were supposedly an inferior and cheaper version of Oreos. Ridiculous. I was devouring Hydrox in the 1950s and 1960s because our family all liked them much better than Oreos. How many hundreds of Hydrox cookies I dipped in milk, I cannot say...but many. Oreos? Never! Far too soft and sweet, with sweetness, not chocolate, being the dominant flavor. And they fall apart in milk. It matters not any more, as I now find I prefer Mallomars to either. |
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