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Feel like you want to hang jolly festive holiday candy around, but you just don't like peppermint? Fear not! Spangler, the candy company that makes a whopping hunk of the 1.76 billion candy canes manufactured and sold (90% between Thanksgiving and Christmas) has a non-peppermint candy cane for you.

Yes, folks, a couple of weeks back I was in Dollar General, grabbing some extra light strings to fill a hole on the tree, when what to my wondering eyes did appear but Oreo Flavored Candy Canes.

Okay, so they are not festively colored; no red or green or even gold. In fact, the near-black dark of the Oreo cookie reflected here makes them look almost like goth candy canes. They'd be good for the death-metal fans on your list.

I was of two minds whether to buy them, in fact, as I am not a goth or death-metal fan, but you know what? It was Dollar General, for goodness' sake, so guess how much they cost.

But what you want to know is, do they really taste like Oreo cookies? And I am here to tell you... Yes, yes, they sorta do.

I mean, as much as a sugar candy can. Chocolate is a notoriously hard flavor to transfer to hard candies. Nestlé's Chocolate Parfait Nips comes pretty close, but it cheats by having a soft center. I'd say the Oreo candy cane ranks up there. But the filling flavor is even better; while it's hard to taste the white bit separately from the black, I did my best, and can state that the white part of the candy cane has a very good imitation of the Oreo filling flavor. Of course, the texture is completely wrong for Oreos, which makes it more difficult to nail down the flavor -- you could come up with a chewable vitamin that tastes exactly like a Thanksgiving turkey and it still wouldn't be right in any plausible way.

However, cookie-to-cane is a much shorter route than turkey-to-pill, so I think you're safe with these.

To recap: The Spangler Oreo Flavored Candy Canes are a good choice for those festive-minded people who:

🍬 Are goths
🍬 Like death metal
🍬 Dislike color on the Christmas tree
🍬 Hate mint
🍬 Are obsessed with Oreos
🍬 Just want something different in the candy cane line

And if you wait until after Christmas, they will probably be fifty cents a box!