You Should Stop Buying Oreo Cookies and Switch to the Original
Just another corporation seeking to shut down its competition
I thought McDonald’s had a dark history, but Oreo cookies have it worse.
A few months ago, I came across the movie The Founder on Netflix. The film discusses the story of Ray Kroc, a man who turned a local restaurant into the world’s biggest restaurant company in the world.
What disturbed me is that Ray Kroc took the restaurant and the company from the brothers for himself. He cheated them out of their successful family-owned restaurant and became a billionaire using their product and methods of cooking. In the process of learning about McDonald’s dark history, I wondered what other products have dark histories.
How did our favorite products become so popular?
Luckily, I came across a YouTube channel called Hook, which has created many videos on how products came into existence. I learned about Doritos and Fritos having Mexican origins, and Hot Cheetos being created by a Mexican janitor working for the Frito-Lay corporation.
However, none of those had dark histories. Rather, those stories were about perseverance and hard work paying off to create new products that disrupted the…
