Oxymoron?
My secret happy place is the grocery store. I visit it two to three times a week and it never loses its luster to me as I make my way up and down those all too familiar aisles. This habit was fully formed once I started having children and has not slowed down despite being an empty nester. Admittedly, my list is smaller and pretty damn boring, but somehow I can linger in front of the quinoa choices for several minutes self-debating white vs. tri-color. However, my monotonous and yet comforting routine was thrown off by a new product that caught me so off-guard, I had to pause and re-read the label: Double Stuf Gluten Free Oreos. Say what? I don’t want to offend any of my gluten free brethren out there, but I have been eating and buying Double Stuf oreos since 1974 and I just can’t process “gluten free” and “oreo” living in the same package. I can accept all the crazy Oreo flavors like “Red Velvet”, “Berry Burst” and “Creamsicle”, but gluten-free? That just doesn’t make sense to me. Alas, it’s 2021, and even the Nabisco Company is woke to the public’s changing eating habits, so I’ll just have to accept it -- no one should be denied the undeniable pleasure of a Double Stuf Oreo, with or without gluten.