Oreos

We're a mere 41 days from autumn so that can only mean one thing… besides the annual way-too-early-start of pumpkin spice season. Yup, that's right: Oreo has just announced a million new seasonal cookie varieties to carry us to the end of the year. Or, okay, three new varieties. Apparently, they're taking it easy on us to finish off 2019.

These days, Oreo is just as much a flavor testing lab as they are a cookie company.

It’s been almost an entire week (almost!) since Oreo officially announced its latest release in the cookie brand’s never-ending parade of limited-edition varieties. This time around, Nabisco was offering up details on its new Game of Thrones Oreos — which arrived a little over a month after they were first teased.

Literally yesterday, I wrote that Oreo “has made it clear they don’t have any shortage of ideas.” Twenty-four hours later, I still fully believe that: You don’t release Carrot Cake Oreos the same month that you tease Buttered Popcorn Oreos if you’re stockpiling concepts for an upcoming shortage.

At this point, Oreo cookies have been offered in so many different flavors that the brand has made it clear they don’t have any shortage of ideas. Heck, Oreo is so overloaded with unreleased concepts that, a few weeks ago, I caught wind of four forthcoming varieties in a single day! Instead, the bigger question would seem to be whether Oreo can continue to devise interesting flavors.