Word: oreo
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...always ask for one of Herrell's popular "smoosh-ins"--regular flavors mixed with dry toppings like Oreo bits or M & M's. They're called smoosh-ins because the employees actually knead the toppings into the ice cream...
...fact that we put the best bid on the table the first time and this time." He then returned with an attorney to RJR's 48th-floor New York offices in seemingly good spirits. As city lights glittered around them, the two men sipped drinks and munched Oreo cookies while reflecting on the day's ordeal...
...deal is completed, the new owners usually try to bring their debt down to a manageable level -- and pick up enormous profits along the way -- by selling off parts of the company piecemeal. In the case of RJR Nabisco, the total market value of popular individual brands like Oreo cookies and Winston cigarettes may be far higher than the $20 billion price tag for the company as a whole...
Suddenly, eating an Oreo isn't so easy...
...bought the Oreos two weeks ago. They cost $2.97 and that will go to the company that produces Oreos--Nabisco--and help finance the sale of cancer-causing cigarettes to people on the other side of the world. It may even help finance taking the company into private hands so it is answerable to no one but itself. Until this week I had no idea buying an Oreo could have such ramifications, but that's the way the cookie crumbles...