OREO COOKIES debuts on March 6, 1912

TRY AN OREO - March 6, 1912 Today Nabisco introduced the OREO biscuit, two embossed chocolate-flavored wafers with a rich cream filling. The cookies are sold in bulk by weight out of a tin. The first recorded sale took place in Hoboken, NJ to S.C. Thuesen who paid twenty cents per pound--wholesale. The OREO is baked at 75 Ninth Avenue in New York City