Subway responded by saying the footlong was a "descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length. "While I'm not familiar with what was done in the classroom setting, I can confirm for you that our recipe for the Oreo Double Stuf Cookie has double the Stuf, or creme filling, when compared with our base, or original Oreo cookie," the spokeswoman said.Īnderson's students' discovery comes on the heels of online outrage directed at Subway Australia earlier this year when a customer posted a photo on Facebook of his foot-long sub next to a tape measure to prove it fell an inch short. "They were surprised," said Anderson, who documented the classroom experiment on his blog.Ī spokeswoman for Nabisco told the company's Double Stuf Oreos are made to have double the creme filling as the original Oreos. The Double Stuf Oreos were 1.86 times the size of regular Oreos, while the Mega Oreos were 2.68 times the size of regular Oreos, by the students' measure. Using mathematical equations to determine the creme content of the cookies, Anderson's students found that the bigger Oreos might disappoint. So, in hindsight, you could as well go for the Double Stuf (it has only 1.86 times more cream). It has 140 calories per serving (2 cookies) and holds fewer grams of carbs, while the Original Oreo contains 160 calories per serving (3 cookies). "And we weighed five wafers alone to deduct from the total." The double Stuf Oreo has fewer calories per serving. "We weighed 10 of each - Double Stuf, Mega Stuf and regular," Anderson said. Double Stuf Oreos are made with less than double the creme of a regular Oreo. He then split his students into different groups, with some measuring the cookies' height and some their weight. "When the Mega Stuf Oreos came out, I decided to do it."Īnderson, 32, brought his class one package each of regular Oreos, Double Stuf and Mega Stuf. have different amounts of cream filling ( Double Stuf Oreos, Mega Stuf Oreos. "This class is for students struggling with math so I'm always looking for hands-on activities," Anderson, who teaches in Queensbury, N.Y., told today. 108 seventy - two different flavors of Oreos : The truth is that it's hard. Each set of cookies has 1 regular Oreo, 1 Double-Stuff, and 3 mega-stufs, or 5 cookies total, and there are 15 of those sets in 75 cookies. The sky’s the limit: You eat 45 Megas, 15 Doubles and 15 regulars. The upstate New York high school teacher tasked the students in his "Consumer Math" course in the spring with determining whether Nabisco's Double Stuf and Mega Stuf Oreos really are, indeed, double and mega stuffed. There are 13 full triplets of cookies, and the 40th cookie is a regular Oreo, not a Double-Stuf. If you ever thought high school math wasn't useful in real life, take a look at what the students in Dan Anderson's class discovered.
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