A high school math teacher and his students have revealed that Double Stuf Oreos don’t actually include twice the creme filling of original cookies — in a devastating study.
Dan Anderson — who is a teacher at a high school in Queensbury, New York — partook in the experiment, which analyzed various packs of Oreos, which included the Mega Stuf and Double Stuf packets.
The 32-year-old bought one pack of Oreos, Double Stuf, and Mega Stuf to his class where they conducted their tests. He then separated his students into different groups, and then they measured both the cookies’ height and weight.
Mr Anderson told ABCNews.com , “We weighed 10 of each, Double Stuf, Mega Stuf, and regular. And we weighed five wafers alone to deduct from the total.”
They then used mathematical equations that helped to determine how much creme was in the cookies. Mr Anderson and his students then came to the conclusion that the bigger Oreos didn’t possess as much filling as the packaging information suggests.
The Double Stuf Oreos actually only had 1.86 times the size of normal Oreos, which is 0.14 less than the double it proclaims to have. Meanwhile, the Mega Oreos only had 2.68 times more creme than the normal cookies.
Anderson has since documented his findings in a blog entitled A Recursive Process. The cookies’ packaging don’t actually reveal how much creme is in each cookie; however, their titles do suggest that they should have around two times the amount.
Earlier this year, an Australian man revealed that Subway’s “footlong” sandwiches are actually only 11 inches in length. The man posted a picture of the sandwich next to a measuring tape that actually showed it is a whole inch shorter than it is supposed to be.
Subway responded by stating that the word footlong is a “registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub,” and it’s “not intended to be a measurement of length.”
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